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1! All spoilers for ''Film/JurassicPark1993'' and ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' will be left unmarked. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned.
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4[[caption-width-right:350:''"Some of the worst things imaginable have been done with the best intentions..."'']]
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6->''"Great, just great. Here we are in the worst place in the world, and we're not even getting paid."''
7-->-- '''Alan Grant'''
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9The third ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' movie, directed by Creator/JoeJohnston and released in 2001. Unlike the [[Film/JurassicPark1993 first]] and [[Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark second]] films, it's not a direct adaptation of Creator/MichaelCrichton's novels, though it does incorporate scenes from the books that were left out of the previous two movies. It is also the shortest ''Jurassic Park'' movie (92 minutes).
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11As the years have passed, Isla Sorna and Isla Nublar have fallen into disrepair, the laboratories and training facilities now entirely abandoned -- at least by humans, anyway... There are rumors of the deaths of people who came too close or were foolhardy enough to land, and the natives living on the neighboring islands never visit either island, which are known as "The Five Deaths". Instead, the place has become a tourist trap--emphasis on "trap"-- for people hopeful to see its dinosaurs from sea and air.
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13Alan Grant (Creator/SamNeill) and his protégé Billy, are asked to be tour guides to a rich couple, the Kirbys, and their company, who desire to see Isla Sorna. They need funds for their paleontological research, so they agree. But not until they arrive there is the truth revealed: the party is not there as tourists, but as rescuers to the couple’s son, Eric, who disappeared near the island eight weeks ago.
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15And guide or no guide, Alan Grant seriously doubts that any of them will get off Isla Sorna alive...
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17Like its predecessors, ''Jurassic Park III'' spawned half a dozen {{Licensed Game}}s.
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19Followed by ''Film/JurassicWorld'', which came out in 2015 after over a decade of DevelopmentHell.
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23!!These aren't on [=InGen=]'s list, but ''Jurassic Park III'' displays the following tropes:
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29* AbortedArc: When Grant and Billy are identifying the ''Spinosaurus'', Grant points out that species wasn't on [=InGen's=] list of cloned dinosaurs and wonders what else they've been up to. This plot thread isn't expanded upon after this scene and the ''Spinosaurus's'' presence on the island is left unanswered. It was eventually revealed in a [[http://www.dinosaurprotectiongroup.com promotional website]] for ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' that the ''Spinosaurus'', along with the ''Ankylosaurus'' and ''Carnotaurus'', were developed by Masrani Corporation as a test run for the new park, albeit behind the back of the rest of the company and during a time when making more dinosaur clones was highly illegal.
30* AbsurdlyIneffectiveBarricade: Inverted. The ''Spinosaurus'', moments after breaking through a razor-wire-topped wall to get to the protagonists, is foiled in its pursuit when the protagonists... shut and lock a door on it.
31* ActionFilmQuietDramaScene: Several between Paul and Amanda. Also between Grant and Eric after [[spoiler: Billy's DisneyDeath]].
32* AdaptationExpansion: As Creator/MichaelCrichton only wrote two ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' books, this is the point in the movie franchise when the storylines become original, although several scenes are [[AdaptationDistillation adapted from both novels]], such as the boat ride, the birdcage, and the dino cloning facility.
33* AllFlyersAreBirds: The ''Pteranodons'' in general act alarmingly bird-like, between grabbing prey with a set of eagle-like talons (something that would have been physically impossible for real pterosaurs of any kind), bird-like nests, the babies begging for food the way baby birds would be expected to (a point rendered moot by the fact that they're shown to be capable of flight already), the constant pecking, etc. Grant even calls their enclosure a "birdcage", although this is kind of an accurate description (for what is an aviary if not a giant, expensive birdcage?).
34* AllThereInTheManual: Of the retcon variety: the viral marketing for ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' adds some much-needed context to ''III'' that helps it feel more relevant in the overall arc of the series. The most notable is the implication that the ''Spinosaurus'' was one of Wu's earliest attempts at making a hybrid dinosaur that eventually got out of hand (and would lead him to the ''Indominus rex'' and ''Indoraptor'' in the next two films). This not only explains the extreme inaccuracies of the ''Spinosaurus'', but also ties this film into the genetic hybrid storyline of ''Film/JurassicWorld'' and its sequel. This also allows Alan Grant's "what were [=InGen=] doing behind my back?" opinions to be seen as allusions to Dr. Wu's turn into being ''incredibly'' sketchy (especially since make more dinosaurs was illegal at that time).
35* AlwaysABiggerFish: The producers wanted a dinosaur that could kick the ''T. rex's'' ass (and wasn't just another "''T. rex'' but bigger" like ''Giganotosaurus carolinii''), so they selected the ''Spinosaurus'', which then-recent discoveries indicated would have been '''larger''' than ''T. rex'', if only slightly. Eric says at one point that ''T. rex'' urine repels smaller dinosaurs but attracts the ''Spinosaurus'', implying that the ''Spino'' hunts the ''T. rex'' for food.
36* AmicableExes:
37** [[spoiler:Paul and Amanda Kirby]] are very caring and friendly with each other. Granted, they [[spoiler:initially pose as a couple]] and they do have an important common purpose, but given the stressful circumstances, one would expect them to get on each other's nerves at some point and show some signs of resentment. Instead, there are strong hints that they will [[DivorceIsTemporary get back together]].
38** Grant and Sattler have split up since the first film but are still very close friends. And apart from a few barbs traded early on, Paul and Amanda are actually pretty cordial with one another, though that's justified as they're working together to get their son back alive.
39* AnimalStampede: Following the tradition set up by the ''Gallimimus'' in the first movie, Grant and company have to outrun a ''Parasaurolophus'' and ''Corythosaurus'' stampede. Strangely enough, the ''Velociraptors'' are more interested in getting their eggs back from Billy than felling one ''Parasaurolophus'' or ''Corythosaurus''.
40* AnimalsNotToScale:
41** According to later discoveries, it turns out the ''Spinosaurus'' in the film was actually ''shorter'' in length than its real life counterpart but also taller. There has been some controversy behind the posture and hind limb length of Spinosaurus however.
42** The ''Pteranodon'' in the film are depicted as being more than twice the size of the real animals, with wingspans of close to forty feet across, while the real animals had wingspans of just under twenty-four feet at most. Even then, only the very largest males; females were much smaller, at only around twelve feet in wingspan. The film does not depict this sexual dimorphism either, even though at least one of them must've been female because of the nest of chicks.
43* AnkleDrag: Nash the pilot gets dragged out of the crashed plane by his leg by the ''Spinosaurus'' before being thrown to the ground, stomped on, and decapitated.
44* ArtifactTitle: Like the second film, ''JP III'' is set on Isla Sorna -- Site B, where the dinosaurs were bred by [=InGen=]. The fact gets brought up later in the film:
45-->'''Dr. Grant:''' Why me?
46-->'''Paul Kirby:''' ''[indicating Udesky]'' He said we needed someone who'd been on the island before.
47-->'''Udesky:''' Yes. But I did not tell you to ''kidnap'' somebody!
48-->'''Dr. Grant:''' I have ''never been'' on this island.
49-->'''Paul Kirby:''' Sure ya have. You wrote that book.
50-->'''Billy:''' That was ''Isla Nublar,'' this is ''Isla Sorna:'' Site B.
51-->'''Udesky:''' ''[surprised]'' You mean there are two islands with dinosaurs on them?
52* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Eric has a flask of ''Tyrannosaurus'' urine, which helps ward off smaller predators. The urine is yellow and watery like mammalian urine, but, as reptiles, dinosaurs probably did not have liquid urine, more likely secreting a whitish uric paste like modern birds and most reptiles do.
53* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The juxtaposition scene has the ''Spinosaurus'' attacking Grant & co. during nighttime, and Ellie's son being distracted by [[Series/BarneyAndFriends Barney]] during the afternoon. Costa Rica is in the same timezone as Central Standard Time, so there's no place in America where such a huge time difference would happen.
54* ArtisticLicensePaleontology:
55** One big mistake that stands out when it comes to dinosaur inaccuracies? ''Pteranodons'' didn't eat red meat (they didn't have the teeth for it). The ''Pteranodons'' '''do''' have teeth in this movie despite the fact that ''Pteranodon'' means "Toothless wing." Also, they lack the pycnofibres that real pterosaurs are covered with.
56** The ''Ceratosaurus'' in the film is depicted as looking like a ''T. rex'' with a horn on its nose. Real ''Ceratosaurus'' were sleeker, and had a thinner skull and a smaller horn above each eye.
57** Eric has a beaker full of ''T. rex'' urine to ward off smaller dinosaurs (though it attracts the ''Spinosaurus''). Dinosaurs, being reptiles, do not urinate.
58** The ''T. rex'' vs the ''Spinosaurus'' -- Scientists now know from the anatomy of both dinosaurs that the match would be impossible for both sides. Bigger does not mean stronger bite (''Spino'' 's bite was nothing to laugh at, but ''T. rex's'' was stronger), and stronger bite does not mean deadliness. ''Spinosaurus'' was specialised to hunt aquatic life, and would only hunt on land in times of extreme drought to avoid competing with other large carnivores for prey.
59** On top of that, recent findings have found that due to the ''Spinosaurus''' bone structure, it was unable to pivot its palms downward, rendering the entire way it killed the ''T. rex'' in the first place impossible!
60** During the above mentioned battle, the ''T. rex'' manages to get in the first blow by biting the ''Spinosaurus'' neck and dragging it to the ground. Not only would the bite have been fatal in real life (the ''T. rex'' had one of, if not the strongest bite force of any known animal), but since a ''Spinosaurus'' sail was an extension of its spine, falling over would have bent it, snapping its spine and paralyzing it.
61** The ''Ankylosaurus'' has big spikes protruding from its sides, a feature that was discredited by that time.
62** The hadrosaurs are now upright and bipedal, which is jarring given the first film got it right.
63* AscendedExtra: ''Pteranodon'' appeared very briefly at the very end of the previous film, but they are a much more major and direct threat to the humans now. Although [[ArtEvolution their design is different]] and the set-up [[RetCon seemingly ignores their appearance in the prior film]].
64* AsideGlance: A ''dinosaur,'' no less, does this. When the ''Ceratosaurus'' finds Paul, Alan, and Amanda by the ''Spinosaurus'' dung, it looks up at the camera with an expression that says "No way am I sticking around here", when it smells what dinosaur made the pile of dung.
65* AttackAttackRetreatRetreat: After the plane lands on the island, the mercenaries set off to secure the area. One loud roar and several gunshots later, Udesky and Nash are running back to the plane.
66* AuthorTract: The choice of ''Spinosaurus'' as the new dinosaur mega-carnivore the film focuses on over ''Tyrannosaurus'' was primarily the decision of the film's palaeontology consultant, Jack Horner, who is probably most infamous for spearheading the hypothesis that ''Tyrannosaurus'' was purely a scavenger (an idea that is not seriously considered anymore and that Horner himself has walked back on), and wanted to show it ''T. rex'' being usurped by what he considered to be the ''true'' alpha predator amongst the dinosaurs.
67* AweInspiringDinosaurShot: After narrowly surviving one hazard and threat after another, including a ''Velociraptor'' family, a startled herd of hadrosaurs, an aggressive flock of ''Pteranodon'', and an insanely persistent ''Spinosaurus'', Dr. Grant's party has one non-confrontational encounter with a dinosaur, which comes from a herd of ''Stegosaurus'', ''Ankylosaurus'', and ''Brachiosaurus''. It comes off as a relieving breather moment to remind the audience that in spite of their ferocity, dinosaurs are still normal if fantastical animals when not provoked.
68* BarrierBustingBlow: There's one that doesn't end with the heroes captured: the humans go through a hole in a fence, and then the Spinosaurus [[RammingAlwaysWorks just smashes through it]]. And yet once the heroes close a laboratory door on him, it surprisingly withstands the enormous dino charging at it.
69* BehemothBattle: A ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' fights a ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinosaurus Spinosaurus]]''.
70* BehindTheBlack:
71** The group arrives at the deserted beach to find a lone man in a suit calling out for them with a megaphone. There's no boats, no parachute, nothing to indicate where he came from. The beach, the sea, and the sky are all perfectly vacant. They run at him to make him stop, and all of a sudden an entire landing force, complete with several amphibious vehicles and helicopters, appears spontaneously on the beach.
72** When Dr. Grant and Eric meet up with the rest of the group, the ''Spinosaurus'' somehow manages to sneak up on all of them, even though half of them are facing it (though a theory behind this is brought up in [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CVb6Yowi-kQ this video]]).
73* {{BFG}}: Ironhorn 20mm anti-material rifle with a magazine holding ten high-explosive incendiary rounds. ''It's not enough!''
74* BigBad: The ''Spinosaurus'', which is portrayed as the biggest and most lethal predator on an island filled to the brim with predators, and [[SuperPersistentPredator pursues the heroes so often and relentlessly]] that one starts to wonder whether it is actually sadistic.
75* BigDamnHeroes:
76** Eric saving Grant from the raptors.
77** Billy saving Eric from the ''Pteranodons''.
78* BiggerIsBetter: ''Spinosaurus'' is made into one of the main threats in the film thanks to its size -- larger than the ''T. rex''.
79* BloodlessCarnage:
80** The infamous fight between the ''Spinosaurus'' and the ''Tyrannosaurus''. Despite being a vicious battle to the death between two massive carnivores biting at each other, there's hardly any blood, and the ''Spinosaurus'' kills the ''T. rex'' simply by snapping its neck rather than actually causing any wounds.
81** [[spoiler:Udesky]] is brutally mauled near-death by a ''Velociraptor''. It uses ''both'' this and GoryDiscretionShot, and in the end he looks no more injured than he did before the attack. Then the raptor kills him by snapping his neck, which, again, is an easy way to kill something without any actual blood.
82* BluffTheImposter: Not in the usual sense of "imposter," but Billy tricks Paul into revealing that he never climbed K2 by asking if he camped above 30, 000 feet (K2 is less than 29, 000 feet tall). Every other lie quickly unravels.
83* BrickJoke: When the party lands on Isla Sorna, Amanda calls for Eric through a megaphone and Grant yells at her to stop because it's "a very bad idea." Later, when they're about to be rescued, the government agent is doing the same thing and they all run out onto the beach yelling "It's a very bad idea!"
84* BullyingADragon: Billy steals eggs from a ''Velociraptor'' nest for profit, which Dr. Grant deduces is why the raptors are chasing them and so he decides the only way to be spared by the raptors and leave the island alive is to return the eggs in-person to the raptors.
85* CallBack:
86** When Grant and co. are confronted by ''T. rex'', he still remembers that [[LivingMotionDetector it tracks prey based on movement]]. Too bad that nobody listens to him.
87** The scene where everyone is digging through ''Spinosaurus'' dung to find the ringing satellite phone is a CallBack to the first movie where Ellie is digging through ''Triceratops'' droppings to discover why the animal has fallen ill.
88** In the end, Dr. Grant looks out of the helicopter window to see a flock of ''Pteranodons''. He did the same thing in the first film, albeit he saw pelicans.
89** The conversation between Grant and Eric about Ian Malcolm's book (the second movie) and the guy's obsession with Chaos Theory (the first movie).
90** As in the first movie, Grant is initially reluctant to go out to the dinosaur island, but is won over with the promise of [[invoked]][[MoneyDearBoy extra funding for his paleontology work]].
91* TheCavalry: In the end, the Navy and the Marines.
92* CelebrityParadox: During the film’s climax, Ellie’s son Charlie is watching [[{{Series/BarneyAndFriends}} Barney the Dinosaur]]. Eric’s actor, Creator/TrevorMorgan, had a leading role in the Barney film, ''Film/BarneysGreatAdventure''.
93* CellPhonesAreUseless: Averted. The protagonists spend a good deal of time chasing after a satellite phone instead. Any cell phones that they might have had would have been useless; they were on an island far from any towers. This is mixed with a BehindTheBlack moment, when they hear the sound of the phone but not the freaking huge dinosaur approaching in whose stomach the phone is. Clearly, the phone is quite louder than the dinosaur itself!
94* CerebusRetcon: Possibly done to the ''Spinosaurus'' in supplementary material to ''Film/JurassicWorld''. When it appeared in ''III'', it was thought of as just another one of [=InGen=]'s cloned dinosaurs that went loose after the abandonment of the breeding facility, deadlier yes, but still a normal dinosaur (relatively speaking). However, the official website of ''World'' implies it to be [[spoiler: one of the hybrid projects that Dr. Wu created in cooperation with Hoskins, and with the ''Spinosaurus'' being a prototype of sorts for the ''Indominus rex''. Specifically, hybrids that are designed to be much more powerful and intelligent than normal dinosaurs. This is probably why it goes through so much trouble in hunting the humans, and why that poor ''Tyrannosaurus'' gets killed so easily. As shown in ''World'', it takes six dinosaurs in total to bring a hybrid down]].
95* ChekhovsGun:
96** The model of the raptor voice box is one of the most straight-forward examples of this trope in any of the films.
97** When the characters escape the birdcage, we see Amanda left the door unlocked and half-open. At the end, we see that the ''Pteranodons'' have found their way out of the cage and are flying into the sunset.
98** The eggs Billy takes from the raptor nest.
99** The ringtone from Udesky's phone conversation with Paul Kirby later helps Eric find his parents.
100* ChekhovsGunman: Ellie and her family appear in an early scene, and Ellie tells Grant that he can call her anytime if he needs help with anything. Near the end of the movie, Grant calls them for help.
101* ChekhovsHobby:
102** Billy has experience in base jumping, which comes in handy during the birdcage chase when he deploys the parachute.
103** Paul mentions that he's taken up swimming, which comes in handy during the ''Spinosaurus'' attack at the river.[[note]]For those living in places such as New Zealand or Hawaii, swimming is a lot less common in the US due to how many people live so far inland as to never needing to learn how to swim[[/note]]
104* ContrivedCoincidence: What are the odds that Grant would get chased by the raptors into the area near where Eric has been hiding out?
105* CoolVsAwesome: ''T. rex'' vs. ''Spinosaurus''. The ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' was the big heavy of the first two films, [[spoiler:but loses the fight and the title of big bad to the ''Spinosaurus''.]]
106* CrashingDreams: On the plane to the island, Grant dreams there's a raptor in the plane seat next to him, which speaks to him in the voice of the person who's trying to wake him up.
107* CreatingLifeIsBad: Compared to previous films (which already endorsed this trope to a major extent) this one drives the point home even farther, with Alan Grant having transformed into a sarcastic, somewhat bitter man due to his prior experience in the Park. He calls the dinosaurs [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke "genetically engineered theme-park monsters"]] and calls the scientists out for playing God.
108-->'''Amanda Kirby:''' This is how you make dinosaurs?\
109'''Dr. Alan Grant:''' No. This is how you play God.
110* TheCrocIsTicking: The ''Spinosaurus'' eats Paul's satellite phone, and its ringing continues in its stomach. Bonus points since the ''Spinosaurus'' might have actually been the dinosaur equivalent of a crocodile.
111* CurbStompCushion: During the infamous T. Rex vs. Spinosaurus fight, the T. Rex actually manages to knock the Spinosaurus back at first and even bites down on into the Spinosaurus's neck before getting its own neck snapped.
112* CuttingTheKnot: The characters find a row of vending machines, and Mr. Kirby starts pulling out change and counting how much he needs. Billy, remembering that they're on an abandoned island, simply walks up and kicks through the display window of the next vending machine and takes what he wants. Mr. Kirby tries to follow suit, to no avail.
113* DeathOfTheHypotenuse: Ben Hildebrand does not survive landing on Isla Sorna (he doesn't even make it out of the tree), freeing Amanda to get back together with Paul [[RelationshipSalvagingDisaster as a result of their experiences on the island]].
114* DemotedToExtra: Unlike the prior films, the ''Tyrannosaurus'' is reduced to one appearance where it's subject to an infamous case of TheWorfEffect and quickly dispatched by the ''Spinosaurus'' to show how much tougher it is.
115* DespairEventHorizon: Played with; all seems lost when the group realizes Nash had the phone on him when he became dino-chow. [[spoiler:Said phone not only survives being eaten, but it is later dug up from a pile of dung and successfully used to call for help.]]
116* DidntThinkThisThrough:
117** Stealing raptor eggs? Yeah, can't see how THAT could go wrong, Billy.
118** Mrs. Kirby using a loudspeaker to call out for her missing son... on an island filled with man-eating dinosaurs. Alan even calls her out for it.
119** Cooper runs to, and then stands in the middle of a runaway in front of a plane that's taking off and not quite high enough to clear the area, while being chased by the ''Spinosaurus'', demanding that it stop even though it should be obvious to anyone that it wouldn't have been able to stop at that point even if they wanted it to. Of course he causes the plot to kick off as the plane then crashes into the ''Spinosaurus'' as it snaps him up, because of course it didn't just stop chasing him.
120* DisneyDeath: [[spoiler:Billy]] is seemingly killed/drowned by ''Pteranodons'', but survives and is picked up by TheCavalry to provide a HospitalSurprise.
121* DumbBlond: Amanda Kirby, although like her ex-husband she eventually wises up.
122* DwindlingParty: The expedition starts with Dr. Grant, Billy, the Kirbys, and three mercenaries. [[spoiler: By the end of the movie, although they found Eric, the party has been reduced to Grant and the Kirby family. Billy turns out to have survived, but the mercenaries are all dino chow.]]
123* EmergingFromTheShadows: A variant. A ''Pteranodon'' approaches Eric Kirby whilst surrounded by OminousFog.
124* EscapedAnimalRampage: A flock of ''Pteranodons'' escapes from their cage and are shown [[RidingIntoTheSunset flying into the sunset]] at the end. The promotional material for the next film reveals that they were shot down over Canada, presumably due to this trope.
125* EveryManHasHisPrice: Like in the first film, Alan Grant can accept a job if the offered money makes it worthy. In this case, Paul Kirby basically offers him a blank check to be his tour guide on a flight over Isla Sorna. There's a contrast from the first film, however: While Hammond's offer back then is apparently sincere, [[spoiler:Kirby is actually scamming Grant in a desperate attempt to find his missing son.]]
126* EverythingIs3DPrintedInTheFuture: Early at the dig site, Billy prints the resonating chamber of a ''Velociraptor'' and shows it to Dr. Grant. He[[ChekhovsGun later]] uses it to confuse a pack of ''Velociraptors'' in order for the group to escape. It's notable for the fact that the characters refer to the printer as a rapid prototyper, as 3D printers were not commonly known by the average person when the movie was released in 2001.
127* EvolutionaryRetCon: [[invoked]] The raptors are brightly colored and frilled as a nod to the [[ScienceMarchesOn then-recent discovery that they had feathers]].
128* ExplainExplainOhCrap: When Eric tells his parents that he found them by listening to their sat phone jingle, Paul explains that he no longer has the phone, having lent it to Nash just before he got eaten by the ''Spinosaurus''. Cue the Spino.
129* ExtraLongEpisode: Inverted. The previous two movies, as well as the subsequent three, last 120 minutes on average. This one only lasts 92.
130* FailedASpotCheck: The Kirbys hire Alan Grant because he's a dinosaur expert and has supposedly already been to the island. Grant points out that the Jurassic Park incident took place on Isla Nublar, a ''different'' island and that he has never set foot on this one before. To make this even more extreme, Isla Nublar is a solitary island located hundreds of miles further north of Isla Sorna, which is part of a chain of five islands.
131* FearIsTheAppropriateResponse: The "freezing" variant is usually what Alan Grant recommends when confronted with a ''UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex''. [[IgnoredExpert Whether or not his advice is heeded is another matter,]] such as with a run-in with a sub-adult in this very movie.
132--> '''Grant:''' Nobody...move...a muscle.\
133''(the rex roars; everybody else runs)''
134* {{Flanderization}}: The raptors were always very intelligent, but only by dinosaur standards in the first two films. They are now veritable evil geniuses that have their own language and are capable of setting traps that are at human levels of sophistication. Indeed, at times they seem even smarter than the human protagonists.
135* FlareGun: Used to drive off the ''Spinosaurus'' the final time the characters bump into it. The ''Spinosaurus'' had ruptured the fuel tank when it attacked their boat, so the flare gun sets it on fire, at which point it retreats in pain.
136* FoodChainOfEvil: Displayed with the notorious scene of the ''Spinosaurus'' killing the juvenile ''Tyrannosaurus''.
137* ForbiddenZone: The Costa Rican and American Governments have restricted any and all access to Isla Sorna in the interim since the previous film (and ''especially'' after what happened in San Diego).
138* {{Foreshadowing}}:
139** When Mr. Kirby tells Grant that he can pay him any amount of money, the song in the background plays the line, "And I lie, lie, lie..."
140** And careful listeners will hear Kirby talking on the phone to Udesky just before meeting with Grant. If it's just an aerial tour of the island, why would he need mercs with {{BFG}}'s?
141** During the Q & A session following Dr. Grant's lecture, he has to specifically clarify that he neither saw nor was involved in the [[Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark San Diego incident]]. The public's confusion about the events surrounding Jurassic Park and Site B is later exhibited by Mr. Kirby's mistaken assumption that Grant is familiar with the geography of Isla Sorna.
142** It seems quite likely, with the events of ''Film/JurassicWorld'', that the Spinosaurus being an off-the-books creation of [=InGen=] is [[spoiler: an early attempt by some figures in the company to weaponize dinosaurs. Its seemingly enhanced ability hints at the ''I.Rex'' as well]].
143* ForgottenFallenFriend: Grant doesn't ask what happened to Udesky when he and Eric reunite with the others, and the second party is a man short, though Grant could have heard Udesky screaming in pain as he was killed by the raptors.
144* FromBadToWorse: This happens to everyone once the plane, their only means of transport, is totalled.
145** Udesky, the only surviving mercenary on the team, is not really a mercenary, more like a booking agent who only came because the actual third guy got sick.
146** The Kirby's "recruited" Dr. Grant because he had an actual encounter with the dinosaurs. Unfortunately, Grant had only been to Isla Nublar, not Isla Sorna, where the events take place.
147** [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Grant finds out that Paul lied about being a millionaire, and that the check he gave him was a fake]]. Meaning that he's risking his life for literally nothing and even if he survives, his work back home probably won't.
148* GenreSavvy: Grant calls the one person he knows can ''get shit done'' when they're in danger - Ellie, who's husband works in the State Department and is able to send in the Marines ''and'' the Navy.
149* GiantEyeOfDoom: The reflection of the Spinosaur's eye appears in the cockpit window of a plane
150* GiantFlyer: The ''Pteranodons''.
151* GunsAreWorthless: As normal for the series, the dinosaurs completely ignore bullets, when they even hit. Most notable when the mercenaries demonstrate a {{BFG}} firing 20mm explosive shells for the Kirbys. We hear it get fired a few times, then GilliganCut to a bleeding mercenary tearing ass through the jungle, having abandoned his heavy rifle [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere in favor of running like hell]].
152* HandsGoDown: During Dr. Grant’s lecture:
153-->'''Host:''' Does anyone have a question?\
154''[all hands in the room go up]''\
155'''Grant:''' [[HereWeGoAgain Fine]]. Does anyone have a question that does *not* relate to Jurassic Park?\
156''[most of the hands go down]''\
157'''Grant:''' [[ContinuityNod Or the incident in San Diego, which I did *not* witness?]]\
158''[several more hands go down]''
159* HandWave: All of the issues with dinosaurs are handwaved by Grant who says that these creatures are mutants, not dinosaurs. Echoed in ''VideoGame/JurassicParkTheGame'' and made canon in the sequel trilogy.
160* HeroicBSOD: Grant, after witnessing [[spoiler:Billy's]] apparent demise.
161* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Billy Brennan]] and [[spoiler:Paul Kirby]] narrowly subvert this to DisneyDeath status.
162* HistoricalBadassUpgrade: The real ''Spinosaurus'', despite being huge and powerful, was probably quite slow on land. Also, while it was bigger (at least in terms of length, and probably weight and height) than ''Tyrannosaurus'', ''T. rex'' was likely much faster on foot, had a stronger bite, and can tear apart flesh. Here, it's depicted as the ultimate superpredator who eats ''T. rexes'' for breakfast. They also enhanced ''Spinosaurus'' in terms of durability; it [[NoSell easily breaks out of]] a ''T. rex'' bite to the neck in the opening moments of their fight, and is not in the least hampered by the wound. In reality, such a bite would've been crippling, if not fatal to ''anything''.
163* {{Homage}}: The ''Pteranodon'' scene continues both previous films' homaging to ''Film/KingKong1933'', and also references the ''Pterosaurs'' scene from ''Film/OneMillionYearsBC''.
164* HospitalSurprise: A character who went missing turns up in a makeshift hospital at the end.
165* HowDareYouDieOnMe: After Paul Kirby narrowly averts a HeroicSacrifice to save his wife and son from the ''Spinosaurus'', the crying Amanda calls him an asshole and begs him not to leave them alone. Then he reveals that he survived the scuffle and they're reunited again.
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169* IdiotBall: Aside from Billy stealing ''Velociraptor'' eggs (see the NiceJobBreakingItHero entry) or Amanda yelling at the top of her lungs through a frigging ''megaphone'' as soon as her feet touch Isla Sorna's soil, Dr. Grant gets to hold one when he doesn't immediately climb on a tree after getting to the forest. [[spoiler:He nearly gets killed by [[GeniusBruiser raptors]] for it.]] He should have known better considering it was what kept him, Tim, and Lex safe for a night in the first film.
170* IfIWantedYouDead: In the climax of the movie, the group gets [[spoiler: ambushed by a pack of [[RaptorAttack Velociraptors]] who [[MamaBear want their]] [[PapaWolf stolen eggs back]]]]. Alan Grant points out that [[spoiler: the raptors would've killed them outright if they'd wanted]].
171* IgnoredExpert: The Kirbys hire Grant because he's a dinosaur expert, then proceed to ignore most of his advice. (Or, at least, Amanda does. Paul seems more inclined to listen.)
172-->'''Paul:''' Dr. Grant says that a bad idea.
173-->'''Amanda:''' "Dr. Grant. Dr. Grant says--"
174-->'''Paul:''' What's the good of hiring an expert if you're not gonna use his advice?
175* ImprobableInfantSurvival: A standard for the film franchise, but taken up to eleven here. Against all odds, Eric survived alone on a dinosaur-infested island for over two months, a situation in which groups of heavily-armed adults struggle to survive even a few days.
176* InNameOnly: During his lecture, Grant insists that the creatures on Isla Sorna are just "genetically-engineered theme park monsters" rather than true dinosaurs while trying to defend paleontology from accusations of obsolescence.
177* InUniverseFactoidFailure: It’s revealed that the reason the Kirbys needed to bring Dr. Grant to the island with them was because Udesky required them to bring someone who had been to Isla Sorna before in order for the rescue mission to take place. The problem is that Dr. Grant never actually set foot on Isla Sorna, but instead was present in the Isla Nublar incident of the first film.
178* ItCanThink: The bits with the raptor climbing the mesh door, and setting a trap for Billy and the Kirbys, using Udesky as bait.
179* KarmaHoudini:
180** [[spoiler: The ''Spinosaurus'' in the final confrontation simply flees after being burnt by fire.]]
181** The Kirbys. The numerous deaths and injuries in the movie are all the result of them lying to people and disobeying the law about visiting the island, but they survive and they are reunited with their son, so [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality that is all forgotten]] and the final scene is treated as a HappyEnding.
182* KidnappingBirdOfPrey: A ''Pteranodon'' carries off a human boy.
183* KillerRabbit: The baby ''Pteranodons'' may look cute, but they're also mighty ''deadly''.
184* KillItWithFire: The ''Spinosaurus'' is defeated when Grant shoots it with a flare gun, which bounces off and lands in a pool of spilt gasoline.
185* LifesavingMisfortune: Udesky mentions that there was another member of his mercenary team who missed the trip because he caught the flu a couple days before they left. He's the lucky one since all the mercenaries who did come get eaten.
186* LighterAndSofter: The third film was seemingly filmed with the goal of being more family-friendly than ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' in mind. It has actually shown up on ABC Family several times. Notably, the film has the ''lowest'' body count of the series, with at least two {{Disney Death}}s at that, and also includes the plot point of Eric Kirby, a 13-year-old, being able to survive for over eight weeks on Isla Sorna amidst the predators ''on his own.''
187* LiveActionEscortMission: More so in this film than in the previous two, complete with one of the people being escorted getting upset over having to listen to the dinosaur expert - [[TooDumbToLive on an island filled with dinosaurs]].
188--> '''Alan Grant:''' ''(to his protégé, Billy)'' If I lose you, it's just me and the damn tourists.
189* TheLoad: The Kirby parents. Paul and Amanda are clueless people on a hostile island filled with lethal predators and other dangers. They have no combat training like the mercenaries (who don't fare that long themselves due to what they're up against) and no dinosaur experience or knowledge like Alan and Billy, so they have to be told that it's a bad idea to ''use a megaphone.'' Averted by their son Eric, who's savvy enough to survive several weeks all by himself.
190* LogoJoke: The Universal and Amblin logos ripple along with a "THUD!" sound, referencing the BadVibrations when the ''T. rex'' walked.
191* MakeWayForTheNewVillains: [[SpinosaurusVersusTRex the Spinosaurus kills a T. rex]] for no reason other than [[TheWorfEffect to announce how much more powerful and mean she is than the last big evil dinosaur]].
192* MamaBear:
193** Considering how determined the raptors in the third film are to get back their stolen eggs, one can only imagine how fiercely protective they must be of their young...
194** It's implied that one of the reasons the ''Pteranodons'' attacked the group was to protect their young. Well, that and to feed Eric to them.
195%%* MauveShirt: Udesky.
196* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: While Grant and the others are exploring the [=InGen=] facility, a raptor can be seen moving in the background out of focus.
197* MisplacedWildlife: Gibbons (native to South East Asia) can be heard.
198* MockMillionaire: Paul Kirby presents himself to Dr. Grant as the multi-millionaire head of 'Kirby Enterprises' and would be happy to pay him any price for accompanying him and his wife for a flight over Isla Sorna. The company is actually a simple paint and tile store, and he tricked Grant to find their missing son Eric.
199-->'''Dr. Grant:''' That's beautiful. Not only are we stuck on the most dangerous island on the planet, we're not even getting paid.
200* MonsterDelay: While a talking [[AllJustADream dream]] version of a raptor appears on the plane ride to Isla Sorna, real raptors don't show up until about the midpoint of its runtime, and this trope is actually uncharacteristically averted with both the ''Spinosaurus'' and the ''T. rex'' as they come pretty abruptly onto the scene during the frantic first few scenes on the island, but the ''Spinosaurus'' at the very least is only given brief glimpses at first until it rises up to roar at the survivors in the airplane after eating Nash.
201* MonsterIsAMommy: The ''Pteranodon'' that attacks and kidnaps Eric does so because she has a nest of infants to feed.
202* MonsterThreatExpiration: There’s a moment where the ''Spinosaurus'', who was so hellbent on eating the protagonists that it bust through a massive reinforced fence 10 seconds previously... is suddenly unable to break through an ordinary metal door and decides to give up after a few bangs on it.
203* MoodWhiplash: Rapid-fire between Grant and the others being attacked by the ''Spinosaurus'' and Charlie watching ''Series/BarneyAndFriends''.
204* MortonsFork: When Grant finds that Billy has [[spoiler: stolen raptor eggs, which is why the raptors are hunting them]], he threatens to drop them in the river, but decides against it. Paul asks why in the world they're keeping the eggs when they're the reason the raptors are trying to kill them. Grant reasons that the raptors are hunting them either way, better they catch them with the eggs intact (thereby giving them the slim change to return the eggs to the raptors and survive) than without the eggs (at which point the raptors will just kill them all).
205-->'''Paul Kirby:''' What're you doing? Those things are after us because of those.
206-->'''Dr. Grant:''' ''Those things'' know we have [[spoiler: the eggs]]. We drop them in the river, they would still be after us.
207-->'''Paul Kirby:''' What if they catch us with them?
208-->'''Dr. Grant:''' What if they catch us ''without'' them?
209* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Seems to be the case with the alpha raptor; her lack of quills and relatively dull colors signal that she's female, and she's the one who is shown giving commands to [[NumberTwo her mate]] and all the other (mostly male) raptors in the pack.
210* MythologyGag:
211** Ellie Sattler is shown in this film to have eventually settled down, married, and had children with another man, she and Grant simply remaining friends. In the original book, Grant and Ellie were just long-time friends and co-workers who weren't romantically involved like they were in the first film, and Ellie indeed was planning to marry someone else.
212** An aviary full of Pterosaurs was one of the locations in the original book.
213** The book also featured the characters attempting to escape via river as a large predatory dinosaur pursues them through the water. In the book it was the ''Tyrannosaurus'', whereas the film features the ''Spinosaurus''.
214** The plan to use the riverboat to navigate to the coast and possibly the mainland is how Malcolm, Thorne, and company escaped from Isla Sorna at the end of ''Literature/TheLostWorld1995''. Likewise, Billy swiping dinosaur eggs to take to the mainland for study and funding is a whole plot reference to Dodgson's plan in the same novel.
215** [[spoiler:The film ends with a group of soldiers showing up and rescuing the survivors of the island by evacuating them on helicopters]], which is how the first novel ended. [[spoiler:Except they're American instead of Costa Rican in this film, and they don't firebomb the whole island.]]
216* NeckSnap:
217** ''Spinosaurus'' kills the ''T. rex'' by clamping its jaws on its neck, and twisting it with its much larger claws.
218** A raptor finishes off Udesky this way when it becomes apparent the others aren't going to come help him when [[ItCanThink they use him as bait]].
219* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Billy Brennan's attempt to bail his and Grant's research out by ''stealing Velociraptor eggs'', resulting in [[spoiler: Udesky's death]] and placing the survivors in the unnecessarily mortal danger of having an entire pack of raptors on their backs. The fact that it was done solely for the money puts it even further into IdiotBall territory than Sarah and Nick bring the infant ''T. rex'' back to their camp in the previous movie; at least they were just attempting to aid the poor thing after it had gotten injured.
220* NobodyHereButUsStatues: A ''Velociraptor'' briefly manages to pull off this trick by pretending to be a preserved dinosaur head in a vat. Amanda goes in for a closer look and notices its eyeball twitch, at which point the raptor jumps out from behind and attacks. Fortunately, the gaps between the vats are too narrow for it to fit, so it gives her a chance to get away.
221* NonMaliciousMonster:
222** The ''Pteranodons''. Sure, they were aggressive, but can you blame them when they had babies to not only feed but [[MamaBear protect]]?
223** For once in the series, the raptors. They chase the humans all the way to the beach, but it turns out that [[spoiler:they too are out to protect their young, as Billy stole their eggs.]]
224** A ''Ceratosaurus'' confronts the group at some point. Unlike all of the other predators depicted in the series, it shows no aggression, and simply leaves after giving them a cursory glance after sniffing the pile of ''Spinosaurus'' dung.
225** Averted in the ''Spinosaurus'''s case. That thing ''really'' hates humans. Also [[JustifiedTrope somewhat justified]], as their aircraft injured Spino's crest. Also possibly justified if [[spoiler:it really is an early version of ''[[Film/JurassicWorld Indominus rex]]'', and therefore meant to be as psycho as possible]].
226* NoodleIncident: Eric never does say how exactly he managed to obtain ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' urine. He simply
227* NoOSHACompliance: Actually averted, as there are said to be strong restrictions on visits to Isla Sorna (with good reason). Things only go wrong because the Kirbys ignore those rules and visit the island anyway.
228* NothingIsScarier: What the hell ''happened'' to the two guys on the boat? The film seems to imply the ''Spinosaurus'' was responsible, but we never see anything to confirm it. [[AllThereInTheManual The book explains]] that the [[spoiler: ''Pteranodons'' did it, explaining why the boat wasn't completely wrecked; like it would have been with the ''Spinosaurus'',]] but no such explanation is ever provided in the film; instead, the movie seems quite content to [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse forget it ever happened]] and even go so far as to suggest that [[spoiler: the ''Pteranodons'' weren't able to escape their cage until the survivors left the door open.]]
229* NotSoDifferentRemark: Grant gives one to Billy during his WhatTheHellHero moment, telling Billy that he's "no different to the people who built the place".
230* NumberedSequels: The only film in the series to be numbered. Fittingly, the ''III'' are shown as claw marks.
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234* OddballInTheSeries: It's the only film in the franchise made without either David Koepp or Colin Trevorrow on the scripting duties, the only one not to have a soundtrack by either Music/JohnWilliams or Creator/MichaelGiacchino (Don Davis does the job instead), and the only one not to feature the ''Tyrannosaurus'' in the film's logo (which instead features the ''Spinosaurus''). It is also the shortest film in the saga by a wide margin, lasting only 92 minutes instead of sometime around 120 like the other films.
235* OffWithHisHead: The ''Spinosaurus'' appears to bite Nash's head off the second after its foot instantly crushes him to death.
236* OhCrap:
237** Paul, Grant and Billy both have one when they hear the ''Spinosaurus'' a few minutes after they arrive on the island, realizing that it's heading towards them.
238--->'''Paul Kirby:''' What was that?\
239'''Billy Brennan''' That's a ''Tyrranosaurus''.\
240'''Alan Grant''' I don't think so. Sound's bigger.
241** A subtle one on Paul's face when Billy asks him how high up he camped on K2, realizing that his lie is about to be exposed.
242** Grant, when the ''Velociraptor'' that they trap starts making a certain vocalization -- and he realizes what it is.
243---> "My God... it's calling for help!"
244** Eric when he hears compies gathering outside his hideout. It's more InformedAbility since we don't see them attack anyone like they did in the previous film.
245** Everyone gets one when Paul says he left the satellite phone with Nash, who was eaten by the ''Spinosaurus,'' and they hear the distinctive ring nearby.
246** Grant has a big one when he realizes that the area he, Amanda, Paul, Eric, and Billy have sought refuge from the ''Spinosaurus'' in is a giant aviary... which could only mean {{Giant Flyer}}s. Given that nearly every animal on the island is from the Mesozoic, it takes him all of half a second to figure out what kinds of creatures those might be... right before one of the said flyers swoops down and snatches Eric away.
247** Eric has one once he realizes he's not alone on the bridge, then has a further one when he sees that this particular ''Pteranodon'' has a nestful of hungry chicks.
248** Everyone has one when the ''Ceratosaurus'' shows up. {{Subverted}} when it smells them covered in dung and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere leaves]]. The ''Ceratosaurus'', meanwhile is having a more literal OhCrap moment of its own, because the crap the humans are covered in belongs to a ''much'' more dangerous and aggressive predator, which is probably still in the area. It quickly departs the scene.
249** Ellie gets one near the climax of the film when she calls Alan back after missing his satellite phone call. When she hears the panicked Alan screaming about Site B, she looks completely horrified, most likely thinking she just heard her former lover's last words and knowing there isn't a thing she can do about it.
250** Everyone has one again once Billy reveals why the ''Velociraptors'' are ''still'' after them -- he stole eggs from them. And the realization that if the raptors have pursued them this long over believing they have the eggs, it will ''not'' help in any way to get rid of them now.
251* OminousFog: After reuniting Eric with his parents and, once again, escaping from the ''Spinosaurus'', the main characters enter an area of suspended chain-link walkways shrouded with a thick fog. Grant starts getting suspicious when he notices some white, chalky substance on the railing, and then he looks up and notices the entire area is covered by a massive dome of metal bars. [[OhCrap He realizes with horror]] that they're inside a gigantic aviary, which can only mean one thing -- gigantic fliers.
252* OminousWalk: The first ''Pteranodon'' pulls a brief one at the beginning of the sequence it appears in. Simply put, the creature is surrounded by fog when it does this, and is slowly striding its way toward a thirteen-year-old boy. Bonus points for the fact that an animal known for its ''flying'' prowess is introduced by ''walking'' menacingly.
253* PapaWolf: The male alpha velociraptor along with his pack goes to hunt down the protagonists after one of them stole his mate's eggs.
254* ParachuteInATree:
255** In the prologue, Ben and Eric are parasailing[[note]]a parasail looks like a rectangular parachute, but the canopy is wider and gives more lift, allowing it to be steered better and stay aloft longer[[/note]] near Isla Sorna when they lose their towboat and have to land on the island. Later when the main group arrives on the island, they find the parasail dangling from a tree with Ben's half-eaten body still attached to it.
256** The parasail is more or less intact, so Billy packs it up and [[ChekhovsGun takes it with him]]. Billy later uses it to rescue Eric from a flock of ''Pteranodons,'' and gets caught on a cliffside for his trouble. He manages to cut himself down and fall into the river, but can't make it to shore before being [[spoiler:[[DisneyDeath nearly]]]] eaten.
257* PartingWordsRegret: Grant gets pretty upset after [[spoiler:Billy apparently sacrifices himself]] rescuing Eric, because the last thing he said to [[spoiler:Billy]] was that he was bad as the people who built Jurassic Park in the first place for [[spoiler:stealing the raptor eggs]], and redeeming himself was clearly a significant factor in his high-risk rescue attempt. [[spoiler:Fortunately, Billy turns out to be alive and is also rescued at the end, allowing them to make amends.]]
258* PeekABooCorpse: Upon finding Hildebrand’s parachute, his corpse falls on Amanda.
259* PostClimaxConfrontation: [[spoiler:After Alan and Paul successfully scare off the ''Spinosaurus'' for good by lighting their boat's fuel on fire, the next day as the group is about to escape, they are confronted by a few raptors, until Alan confuses them and Amanda surrenders the stolen eggs to them.]]
260* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Upon running into a ''T. rex'':
261-->'''Dr. Grant:''' Nobody –- move -– a muscle.
262* RaptorAttack: The movie gives raptors some color -- to the male raptors, anyway. Somewhat justified, in that the first and [[Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark second]] films' raptors were female, or, thanks to faulty DNA hybridization to fill in the damaged strands, changed to males.
263* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The infamous ''Spinosaurus'' vs ''T. rex'' fight was intended to be much longer and more even than it ultimately was, but had to be cut short to its current length and quick end when the ''Spinosaurus'' animatronic, a newer model than the ''T. rex'' (which was repurposed from the previous film), turned out to be much stronger than anticipated. As a result, it ended up ''decapitating the T. rex animatronic in one swipe''[[note]] [[invoked]]This is the DeletedScene from the trailer that shows the Spino dealing a hefty BitchSlap to the Rex, in case you're wondering. [[/note]], forcing the fight to be massively shortened.
264* RedShirtArmy: The mercenaries hired to accompany Grant and the Kirbys to Isla Sorna end up biting it almost immediately after landing, with the exception of [[MauveShirt Udesky]], [[spoiler:and even he eventually meets a gruesome end]].
265* RelationshipSalvagingDisaster: The divorced Paul and Amanda Kirby trick Alan Grant into accompanying them on an expedition to save their son Eric after he got stranded in the dinosaur-filled jungle on Isla Sorna with Amanda's new boyfriend, Ben Hildebrand ([[DeathOfTheHypotenuse who didn't make it]]). Through the dangers on the island they reconcile their differences and reunite as a family after Paul is almost killed saving them from the ''Spinosaurus''.
266* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Billy is on the receiving end of a rather scathing one when Grant learns that he stole a pair of ''Velociraptor'' eggs.
267-->'''Grant:''' [[NotSoDifferentRemark As far as I'm concerned, you're no better than the people who built this place.]]
268* RedemptionEqualsDeath: After Billy's theft of the eggs comes to light, he sacrifices himself to save Eric from the ''Pteranodons''. [[spoiler: But [[DisneyDeath he survives]] after all, and is [[HospitalSurprise rescued by the Marines]].]]
269* RedshirtArmy: Nash and Cooper, who are meant to provide security, die within minutes of arriving on the island, though Udesky manages to hang around for a while before dying midway through the film.
270* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: The baby ''Pteranodons'' are absolutely [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xPAKVYvL6o adorable]].
271* RotatingProtagonist: After his absence in ''The Lost World'', Grant is the main character again, Ellie has a minor role, and there is yet another new set of supporting characters.
272* RunOrDie: When the group comes face-to-face with the ''Spino'', Grant has this to say:
273-->"Run."
274* SavageSpinosaurs: This film codified the trope in popular culture and popularized the ''Spinosaurus'' as a stock dinosaur now probably second only to the ''T. rex'' among the large carnivores in popularity. The film depicts the animal as an aggressive and powerful predator capable of easily killing a ''Tyrannosaurus'' and [[SuperPersistentPredator pursuing the humans across the entire island for days on end]].
275* SchmuckBait: On suspecting that the Kirbys [[BluffTheImposter aren't who they claim to be,]] Billy asks them whether their base camp when climbing K2 was at 25,000ft or 30,000ft. Anyone who had actually been near the mountain would have immediately spotted that it was a trick question (the former is about 7,000ft higher than any halfway sane mountaineer would put their base camp, and the latter is not only 1,000ft higher than ''the mountain itself'', but ''higher than any mountain on Earth''), but Paul's giving the latter answer proves how utterly clueless he really is.
276* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After learning that Eric Kirby been lost on Isla Sorna for eight weeks, Grant sees this as a lost cause and decides to escape the island.
277* SequelEscalation: ''Pteranodons'' and ''Spinosaurus'', a threat bigger than ''T. rex'', are introduced.
278* SharkFinOfDoom: Played with. We see the ''Spinosaurus'''s massive dorsal sail jutting out of the water before it attacks the protagonists.
279* ShoutOut:
280** Cooper being [[spoiler: the first one to die, and doing so virtually the second he sets foot on the island]], could be a shoutout to ''VideoGame/DinoCrisis'', where a team member named Cooper does the exact same thing.
281** Billy "rescuing" Alan's hat at the end is a mild one to ''Franchise/IndianaJones''.
282** The ''Spinosaurus'' fin rising from the water when chasing the boat calls back [[Film/{{Jaws}} another Spielberg monster.]]
283* SickeningCrunch:
284** After the ''Spinosaurus'' drags Nash from the plane and stomps on him, it bends down and closes its jaws over his head. The scene then cuts back to Grant and the others' horrified reactions, along with a wet splurching sound, followed by a close-up of the Spino's open, bloody jaws from their point of view.
285** Both of the NeckSnap deaths ( a T. rex by the Spinosaurus and Udesky by a Velociraptor) are shown onscreen and accompanied by a loudly audible snap.
286* SmallRoleBigImpact: Cooper only appears for about three minutes total and is killed off less than half an hour in, but he's the main reason that the rest of the characters end up stuck on the island because him running out onto the runway causes the plane to hit the ''Spinosaurus'' and crash.
287* SoLastSeason: How do we truly know the ''Spinosaurus'' means business? He kills the ''T. rex'' without much effort!
288* SpinosaurusVersusTRex: The iconic fight between the two superpredators is the TropeMaker. Shortly after their arrival on Isla Sorna, the ''Spinosaurus'' attacks the plane of Dr. Allan Grant and his group, and then starts pursuing them through the jungle. Dr. Grant and the others eventually bump into a ''Tyrannosaurus'', which decides to chase them as well. When the two gigantic theropods are brought face to face, they roar defiantly and charge at each other to have a fight. The ''T. rex'' is the first to strike, biting its opponent's neck and putting it to the ground. However, after a brief struggle the ''Spino'' manages to get up and free itself, knocking down a few trees in the process, and snaps at its adversary. Then, the two dinosaurs try to bite eack other's flanks, and the Spino strikes the ''T. rex''[='=]s leg with its claws. The ''Tyrannosaurus'' retaliates by [[UseYourHead headbutting]] the Spino, pushing it forward, but the ''Spinosaurus'' takes the opportunity to out-maneuver the ''T. rex'' and bite its neck. It proceeds to use its jaws and arms to [[NeckSnap twist its rival's neck]], killing it instantly. The dead body of the ''Tyrannosaurus'' tumbles to the ground, and the ''Spinosaurus'' places its hands on it before making a [[VictoriousRoar triumphant roar]].
289* StandInPortrait: The characters are looking through the ruins of Jurassic Park's MadScientistLaboratory. Amanda walks along a row of murky tanks holding the remains of failed experiments and even a raptor...which [[OhCrap looks directly at her]] and then jumps out from behind the tank to try and bite her head off. Fortunately the tanks are too close together.
290* StupidQuestionBait: At the start of the movie, Alan Grant has just finished giving a talk about prehistoric Raptors to an audience, and asks if anyone has any questions. Hands go up all over the room. Grant adds that he means any questions that aren't about the events of ''Film/JurassicPark1993'', and most of the HandsGoDown. When he further specifies that he doesn't want questions about the events of ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'' [[note]] specfically the Buck's rampage through San Diego, which he did not witness[[/note]] either, there are hardly any hands left.
291* SuperCellReception: Kirby’s satellite phone works perfectly quite some time after being eaten by a dino. He does mention that they'll only get a single call out of it, but fortunately for the protagonists, this doesn't extend to call-backs.
292* SuperPersistentPredator:
293** The ''Spinosaurus'', with the exception of the ''T. rex'' fight, spends all of its on-screen time trying to chase down the main characters. It does eventually get driven off for good when it's shot by a flare gun and caught in a gas fire ignited by the flare, but only after its ''fourth'' encounter with the protagonists.
294** More like Super Persistent Parent with the raptors-- they do go to great lengths to track down and seemingly, to kill, the main characters, but it is revealed later on that it's not because they wanted to eat them; they were solely motivated by Billy stealing their eggs, and, once they're returned, the raptors take their eggs and leave. Mind you, they are going through all of this trouble to get back ''two'' eggs when they have several clutches back in their home territory.
295* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
296** Access to Isla Sorna has been restricted by the American and Costa Rican governments in the interim since ''The Lost World''. Considering what happened in San Diego [[CallForward or what takes place the world over]] [[Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom two]]-[[Film/JurassicWorldDominion three]] films later, you can't blame them for trying to prevent any more dinosaurs from getting off the island (or to prevent anyone from trying to sneak back in and acquire more specimens).
297** Similarly, as part of those security measures, [=InGen=] was forced to turn over their records of their cloning operations and what kinds of species they had ressurected. Perhaps unsurprisingly, [=InGen=] cooked their own recordkeeping books and withheld information like the Spinosaurus (something that retroactively became important to ''Jurasic World: Fallen Kingdom'''s viral marketing over a decade later.
298** The UnmasquedWorld has also kneecappped the Palentology field and funding for Grant and other diggers. After all, with actual ressurected and living dinosaurs now living on Sorna, who needs to go digging for fossils anymore?
299** On the flip side of this, it could be argued that the reason paleontology hasn't been completely nixed already and Grant still even has a job is because just enough people realize how utterly dangerous it would be to study live dinosaurs, ones that were genetically cloned and might not even be behaving accurately to their forerunners at that. Especially after what happened in [[Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark San Diego]] four years ago.
300* TakeThat:
301** Grant and the others are being attacked by the ''Spinosaurus'', so Grant uses the satellite phone to call Ellie for help. Her toddler son picks it up, and he would have gotten it to his mother a lot quicker were he not distracted by [[Series/BarneyAndFriends another dinosaur]]....
302** This exchange between Eric and Grant:
303--->'''Grant:''' Did you read [[Literature/TheLostWorld1995 Malcolm's book]]?\
304'''Eric:''' ''[nods]'' [[invoked]] I don't know. It was [[{{Anvilicious}} kinda preachy]]. And too much Chaos. Everything Chaos. It just seemed like the guy was [[InsufferableGenius high on himself]].\
305'''Grant:''' [[SelfDeprecation That's two things we have in common]].
306* TerrifyingTyrannosaur: The film exploits the fearsome reputation of the ''T. rex'' by using it as a benchmark of typical terror you can find on Isla Sorna, and then uses ''[[SavageSpinosaurs Spinosaurus]]'' to [[TheWorfEffect demolish]] the ''T. rex'' in every ''single'' category. ''T. rex'' pee? Scares away regular carnivores, but attracts ''Spinosaurus''. Its signature roar? Spinosaur's roar is much bigger. ''T. rex'' squaring off against ''Spinosaurus''? ''Spinosaurus'' easily wins.
307* TemptingFate:
308** Eric is communicating with his mom, who is worried about his well-being. He assures her that he'll be fine, except...:
309--->'''Eric:''' Mom, I've been in the jungle by myself for eight weeks. I think I can survive the next few minutes without you.
310--->''[cue a ''Pteranodon'' [[KidnappingBirdOfPrey snatching him up]]]''
311** Also Dr. Grant at the conference:
312--->'''Alan Grant:''' No force on Earth or Heaven can get me on that island.
313* TerrorDactyl: While ''The Lost World'' had ''Pteranodon'' in the closing scene, this time they play a much bigger role as vicious monsters that attack the humans. They are extraordinarily unlike real ''Pteranodon'': they are much bigger than the already GiantFlyer, don't display the sexual dimorphism they are known to have, are able to grab humans with their feet like a bird-of-prey, have scaly skin, and, most egregiously, have [[ToothyBird beaks filled with sharp teeth]] (the name ''Pteranodon'' literally translates to "winged ''without'' teeth").
314* ThematicSequelLogoChange: The usual ''Tyrannosaurus'' has been replaced by a ''Spinosaurus'' and the "III" is gouged out with its three-clawed hand (''T.rex'' only has two clawed hands) to represent the latter being the story's new BigBad.
315* ThereAreTwoKindsOfPeopleInTheWorld: Those who are content to observe from a safe distance, and those who feel the need to explore hands-on.
316-->'''Dr. Grant:''' There are two kinds of boys: astronomers and astronauts.
317* ThisWayToCertainDeath: Amanda Kirby's "very bad idea" is to use a megaphone in a predator-filled island.
318* TimeSkip: The movie is not given a set time period, but it happens after ''The Lost World''. Ellie Sattler has been married for some time and has two children.
319* TimeZonesDoNotExist: The climactic confrontation with the BigBad dinosaur of the movie happens at what appears to be nighttime in Isla Sorna, and when Alan Grant calls Ellie Sattler for help, her home (established through a FreezeFrameBonus to be in the American East Coast) is still in daytime. Isla Sorna is established to be near Costa Rica, which is in the Central Standard Time zone.
320* ToiletHumour: Everyone has to go digging in [[RoadApples ''Spinosaurus'' dung]] to find the satellite phone. And Eric keeping a flask of ''T. rex'' urine in his trailer. This, in turn, was turned up to eleven by [[Film/LandOfTheLost Will Marshall]].
321* TooDumbToLive:
322** Ben Hildebrand parasailing over an island with restricted airspace (because it's full of lethal dinosaurs) ends about as well as you'd expect.
323** Mrs. Kirby seems to genuinely not understand why Grant is advising her not to shout through a megaphone while wandering aimlessly through a jungle full of giant, feral predators. Mr. Kirby, too; at one point he tells his wife to shut up because "Dr. Grant says this is very dangerous territory." Obviously, being chased by a ''Spinosaurus'' and a ''T. rex'' within seconds of each other wasn't enough for him to realize that by himself. [[spoiler: They get better at it.]]
324** Billy stealing the eggs from the raptor nest. This results in the raptors coming after them and even [[spoiler:killing Udesky]] in revenge. Grant is pretty pissed to discover it's Billy's fault they're being hunted by raptors now, too.
325** Cooper tries to get the plane to stop by ''standing one-hundred feet in front of it as it is barreling towards him at takeoff speed''. Even if they ''wanted'' to stop, he would still have been run over. And he was also standing and yelling right out in the open as he was being chased by a huge predatory dinosaur, which was still in the middle of chasing him. Justified in this case, as his desperation for survival outweighed his logical reasoning.
326* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: Dr. Grant's assistant, Billy Brennan, steals ''[[RaptorAttack Velociraptor]]'' eggs, planning to sell them on the mainland in the hopes of getting funding to keep his and Alan's dig site going. He even admits he took the eggs on an impulse; as a result, the raptors end up chasing the group down and killing Udesky. When Alan finds out, he wastes no time giving Billy a WhatTheHellHero, especially after he claims he did it "[[WellIntentionedExtremist with the best intentions]]."
327-->'''Alan''': Some of the worst things imaginable have been done with the best intentions. You know what, Billy? As far as I'm concerned, you're no better than the people that built this place.
328* TheUnmaskedWorld: A variation. [=InGen=]'s activities on Isla Nublar and Isla Sorna -- and the existence of cloned dinosaurs -- are now public knowledge thanks to the San Diego Incident in the previous movie.
329* UnpleasantAnimalCounterpart: This movie is responsible for portraying ''Spinosaurus'' in a villainous light, [[SpinosaurusVersusTRex in contrast to]] the more noble portrayed ''Tyrannosaurus''.
330* VoodooShark: Word of God establishes that the two guys on the boat were eaten by ''Pteranodons''. This would certainly explain why the boat wasn't wrecked and why the ''Pteranodons'' had a human skull in their nest, but it gets really confusing when it's revealed later that they were essentially trapped in the aviary without any means of getting out until the protagonists accidentally left the door open.
331* WhamLine: While the protagonists take refuge in an unknown, seemingly abandoned enclosure, things seem to be going relatively fine... until Grant gets a good look at the enclosure's ceiling and [[OhCrap makes a startling discovery...]]
332-->'''Grant:''' It's a birdcage!
333* WhamShot:
334** The opening, wherein the two guys suddenly vanish from the boat.
335** The ''Spinosaurus'' [[HeroKiller snapping the T. REX'S neck]].
336** The ''Pteranodon'' approaching Eric [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos SlenderMan]]-style from OminousFog.
337* WhatTheHellHero: Alan gives a massive one to Billy after he discovers that Billy [[spoiler: stole velociraptor eggs]].
338* WhyIsntItAttacking: Near the end of the movie, Grant and the others are surrounded by ''[[RaptorAttack Velociraptors]]'' who, as Grant points out, aren't tearing anybody limb-from-limb. [[spoiler: It turns out they're just after the eggs that Billy stole earlier in the movie.]]
339* TheWorfEffect: The ''T. rex'' suffers from this. Its species were portrayed as the biggest and baddest creatures, and now one is easily defeated by the ''Spinosaurus''. Of course, there's a ''lot'' of debate about how this scenario would play out in RealLife, though. Nearly everybody agrees that ''Spinosaurus'' would need to ''dodge'' when ''T. rex'' went for its neck rather than just {{no sell}}ing, though. This is partly RealLifeWritesThePlot, as the fight was intended to be much longer and more even, but the ''Spinosaurus'' animatronic was a newer model than the ''T. rex'' one and far stronger than expected, resulting in it literally ripping the ''T. rex'' animatronic's head off in a single swipe. So ironically, TheWorfEffect was due to a real life example of this trope happening with the animatronics.
340* WorkingWithTheEx: Paul and Amanda Kirby are a divorced couple who work with Dr. Grant to rescue their son from a dinosaur-infested island. It's implied by the end of the film that they will [[RelationshipSalvagingDisaster get back together]].
341* YouDoNotWantToKnow: Eric says this in response to Grant's question about how he got a jar full of ''T. rex'' pee.
342* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The raptors use an injured Udesky as bait for the other humans. After their trap failed, one of the males [[NeckSnap snaps the poor guy's neck.]]
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