 Some critics felt that the song did not satirize the source material , but instead merely recounted the plot to Jurassic Park . Entertainment Weekly referred to the claymation video for the " Jurassic Park " as " clever but toothless " . The magazine argued that Yankovic 's parody did not satirize the original material , but instead transposed new elements on top of them . Rob Owen of Richmond Times @-@ Dispatch wrote that the song " does nothing but recount the plot of the hit movie " and that " dinosaurs don 't lend themselves to music " . 
