If The Jaws re-releases in 3D, the shark could appear visibly aged with dentures on but Steven Spielberg’s herd of dinosaurs is ageless.

When Jurassic Park first released in 1993, it pandered to viewers’ impatience for long narratives, forcing Spielberg to pack every minute with dino talk and action from the word go –– a caged raptor devouring a security guard even before the wooden doors of the park creak open or paleontologists going about digs to find their fossilised friends. His attention was clearly divided between a film that would go on to offer edge-of-the-seat entertainment and a project that was closer to his heart and history –– Schindler’s List, which released only five months later.

Twenty years on, the 2D movie has been slapped with 3D transfer technology and how! And equally important to the experience is the digitally enhanced audio track and        John Williams’s music.

A couple of quibbles? In trying to increase the panoramic depth of every frame, the team of 3D experts has made the actors appear like matchsticks in some outdoor scenes. And then there are boo-boos when foreground objects appear out of focus, like the grass during the Gallimimus stampede.

If you were awed watching the film in a dingy single-screen theatre in 1993, chances are you would watch it this time at a multiplex with Minority Report-generation kids. And this time the T-Rex — bigger and louder and closer — can make viewers chew their nails off or scream their heads off. A few t2 alerts.

Moment One: Dino-doggy

Unlike the run-of-the-mill poorly-retrofitted 3D fare, the technical team has shown restraint. The mix of dino bad-breath roars and thumps is complemented by colour-rich panorama. And this can be seen only 15 minutes into the movie when Dr Alan Grant (Sam Neill), Dr Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern), Dr Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum), the park’s CEO John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) and blood-sucking lawyer Donald Gennaro (Martin Ferrero) arrive at the “petting zoo” to find a herd of dinosaurs drinking water and one herbivorous beast doing a doggy routine.

Moment Two: Egg hatch

To maintain pace, John whisks the team away to the lab and to the dino egg incubator. Taking the ordinary setting to a new level is the way 3D is employed when a raptor egg hatches… the type that kills greedy Dennis.

Moment three: T-Rex bite and race

Dennis Nedry’s (Wayne Knight or Newman in Seinfeld) greed provides the next big thrill. He turns off the park’s electric fences to buy time to steal dino DNA samples. And that too at a time when John’s grandkids are taking a tour of the park with the team of scientists. Once the autopilot cars are stranded, it’s time for the prehistoric creatures to take a walk in the park. They attack the car with the kids while the lawyer hides in the loo. After snacking on a goat, a T-Rex eyes the kids (Tim and Lex played by Joseph Mazzello and Ariana Richards). Alan and Ian manage to distract the giant towards the loo. Before you can blink, the blood-sucking lawyer is sucked up like a ball of noodles. A few minutes of drama is followed by a rescue jeep… and the most thrilling/comic part of Jurassic Park. Robert Muldoon (Bob Peck), the park’s game warden, drives the jeep at breakneck speed only to find those immortal words on his side-view mirror: “Objects in mirror are closer than they appear!”

Moment Four: Dino song and sneeze

Separated from the team, Alan, who has commitment issues, rests with the kids on a tree branch. From this point on, sound effects and John Williams’s music take the lead. Herbivorous dinosaurs appear and they chomp on leaves but without the haunting soundtrack, even the best 3D would go to waste. One even sneezes all over the vegetarian Lex!

Moment Five: Proof of the pudding

The kids make it back to the “clubhouse” to enjoy a lavish feast with zero attendance. A few bites into the pudding, the big-bad lizards join the party, making them rush to the larder. Though highly improbable, a couple of raptors manage to unlock (and not break) the door and make a “recce” of the room while tapping their toenails.

With the theatre filled with 15-20-year-olds for the first show at INOX (Forum) on Friday, one wondered what still makes Jurassic Park so watchable in 2013. The answer to this complicated question is simple: Steven Spielberg’s heady mix of storytelling (based on a Michael Crichton novel), wonder and terror in a movie that you can’t fast forward!