Parent/Child Bonding Moments

[azurelunatic]

The Simpsons was pre-empted for Jurassic Park. I didn't see that in the theatres, of course, when it came out. I saw it at CTY somewhat afterward, and I remember cooing over the parent/child bonding moment in it towards the end.

Namely, when the Mad Scientist is trying to put the muzzle back on the baby T-Rex, and then the big one shows up, and then, well ... nature takes its course.

It was so cute!

It hasn't lost any of the cuteness factor in the intervening ten or so years. Sheesh, that's technically an old movie now.

Comments

[intheblacklodge.livejournal.com]

What? I've seen that movie a million times and I swear I've never seen that scene. Or a baby T-Rex at all for that matter.

[azurelunatic]

Cranky hero and token heroine are speeding through the city. She's got the trussed-up baby T-Rex on her lap to try and lure the adult to somewhere less harmful (IIRC -- at any rate, it's rampaging through the city and is now following them). Cops break out all over, but scatter when they see T-Rex, and, amusingly, the dinky little Animal Control truck is fleeing as well.

Our heroes and the convertible crash into a warehouse. They get out of the car and are trying to figure out where to put the baby. Big T-Rex crashes in. They, alarmed, flee, with baby in tow.

They put the baby T-Rex on top of a boat of some sort. Mad Scientist is up there. Our heroes jump into the water. Mad Scientist sees the baby T-Rex, sees it's not muzzled, and grabs the muzzle and is trying to wrestle the thing into wearing the muzzle when the big one shows up. There is a touching scene where the big T-Rex grabs the fleeing prey, wounds it, and then shoves the baby after it so the baby can make its first kill. Awww.

Meanwhile, our heroes, having swum to safety and a good location, are loading up tranquilizer weapons to subdue the beast.

[intheblacklodge.livejournal.com]

OK yeah, there's defintely no city in Jurassic Park. It all takes place on an island off of Costa Rica. I think you might tbe talking about Jurassic Park 2, but I only half watched that one once, so I don't know for sure.

[azurelunatic]

Quite possibly. It was terribly cute.

[tygerr.livejournal.com]

JP2 takes place on their "development island" rather than the "park island". I *think* the baby T-Rex is from JP3, but I've only seen 2 and 3 once each so I'm not sure.

[intheblacklodge.livejournal.com]

Well from what little I can remember, JP2 starts out on the island but they bring the dinosaurs back to the city halfway through and it becomes a bad Godzilla knockoff.

[azurelunatic]

This is definitely in a city -- I'm trying to remember just which California city it was in. Not San Francisco, I think. Nor LA. I think San Diego; I remembered it because one of my assorted aunts lives in the area.