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`Frankenstein' Reduces T-Rex To a Pale Tale

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19930718
Author:Andrew Greeley

It was an interesting experience to watch, the same week, Steven Spielberg's version of Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park and TNT's version of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein. Spielberg wins on technical effects - though once you've seen one T-Rex you've seen them all. But as a morality tale about hubris, Shelley, who scribbled the novel when she was 18 years old during a rainy summer in Switzerland, wins going away.

The TNT version, with Patrick Bergin as a wild-eyed Celtic Victor Frankenstein, is much closer to the Shelley story than any of the other films.

In her novel, one ...

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