It's not hard to elicit nostalgia from anybody who experienced the Jurassic Park as a youngster in 1993, horrified of the surround sound snarls of intelligent, vicious velicoraptors looking to eviscerate everything in sight.  The sound of John Williams' majestic score, a T-rex roaring, or Jeff Goldblum expounding on Chaos Theory do that effectively enough.  It's worth noting that Universal's pushing of Jurassic Park 3D feels like it would work even on those that have never seen the movie before, promising big thrills and visuals worth dropping your jaw over.

And that's one of the remarkable things about the movie.  Not only did it prove emphatically that CGI could be essential in building creatures unlike any seen in cinema before, but two decades later, those CGI effects stack up favorably against the visual effects in contemporary blockbusters. 

A couple years back, IAR had the opportunity to speak with Dennis Muren, Phil Tippett, and John Rosengrant about Jurassic Park's effects and the current state of the VFX industry.  Find out why they say the film holds up so well by clicking here.

Or just watch these four TV spots and enjoy that tickling sensation around your nostalgia bone:

Just last week, Universal Pictures announced that Colin Trevorrow, the director of the great Safety Not Guaranteed, is directing Jurassic Park 4.

The next installment in the franchise based on the novel by the late Michael Crichton boasts a screenplay by Amanda Silver and Rick Jaffa, the duo who wrote Rise of the Planet of the Apes.  That sequel is expected to hit in the summer of 2014.

Jurassic Park stomps back into theaters in 3D this April 5th.