Jurassic Park shaped an entire generation of dinosaur fans in the 1990s. Adults have shared their funniest misunderstandings about the dinosaur horror film.
Jurassic Park, released in 1993, remains one of the most popular sci-fi adventures of all time. With a rating of 7.3 from over 33,000 reviews, the dinosaur movie is one of the Moviepilot community’s absolute favorites. And the franchise continues to grow today, despite director Steven Spielberg expressing his regret about it.
For millions of children who grew up in the 90s, Jurassic Park was the first blockbuster. Due to the dinosaur theme, many parents turned a blind eye to the animal horror film at the time. This resulted in dozens of hilarious misunderstandings. Maybe you’ll even recognize yourself in them.
When children watch Jurassic Park: What the children of the 90s got wrong
Three years ago, a user on Reddit posted that he had spent his whole life thinking that the iconic can of Barbasol shaving cream used to smuggle the dinosaur embryos in the film was whipped cream. Many others in the thread agreed – and even funnier mistakes followed.
The bloodthirsty T-Rex is called Gennaro!?
Donald Gennaro (Martin Ferrero) meets an iconic end in the first Jurassic Park: the lawyer flees to one of the visitor toilets, where he is mercilessly devoured by the T-Rex. However, one Reddit user completely misunderstood this scene:
When Ellie and Muldoon arrive to rescue Malcolm after the Rex breaks out, Muldoon says, “I think that was Gennaro.” I always thought he meant the T-Rex and that its nickname was Gennaro.
The user is not alone: several children of the nineties thought the T-Rex’s name was Gennaro.
Wanderlust for Costa Rica and years of mispronunciation
For some inexplicable reason, one user was convinced that the raptor claw that Dr. Grant throws away in the film could really be found in Costa Rica: “I begged my mother to take me to Costa Rica.” In fact, the film is set on a fictional island west of Costa Rica and was shot in Hawaii.
Another report refers to how strangely Grant (Sam Neill) pronounces the number “three” when he counts Tim down to jump off the fence: This child said “tree” instead of “three” for years because he was imitating Sam Neill. The whole thing apparently went so far that he was sent to a speech therapist. An individual fate that is reminiscent of a similar story among Star Trek fans.
The most widespread misconception: Dennis Nedry controls the weather
Programmer Dennis Nedry (Wayne Knight) is a kind of villain in the first Jurassic Park movie and is best remembered for being killed by a poisonous dilophosaurus during a storm. In the discussion, there are numerous voices who thought Nedry was a kind of weather god as a child:
When Nedry pressed the ‘Execute’ button, I thought that this would somehow trigger the thunder in the following shot.
A simple cut created superhuman powers in the eyes of many children. One user sums it up:
I laughed my way through this post – I identified with every single one of them. Thank you!
The memory of Jurassic Park lives on today in the new Jurassic World films: And the film also left its mark on the children of the nineties. Despite all the misunderstandings, it remains an integral part of many childhood memories to this day.
