Universal Studios Florida is a theme park in Orlando, Florida, part of the Universal Orlando Resort. The park, which opened in 1990, is a park that lets visitors "Ride the Movies." It offers many shows and rides, along with countless other things for guests to see and do. Universal Studios Florida, with its sister park Islands of Adventure, CityWalk, and several on-site hotels making it a complete vacation destination.

The park hosts many special events throughout the year, including the popular Halloween Horror Nights in October which is highly recommended and Macy*s Parade over the Christmas season.

The attractions at Universal Studios Florida are split into six different areas.

Production Central:

Shrek 4-D is a short film/ride. Participants are lead into a dungeon-like room with two giant television screens on either side. On the screen, Lord Farquaad announces that he has kidnapped the Three Little Pigs, Gingerbread man, and Pinocchio and is holding them hostage. The short film takes place right after the first Shrek film. In it, the spirit of Lord Farquaad returns from the dead to kidnap Princess Fiona. Therefore, it is up to Shrek and Donkey to rescue her.

Although the animation is 3-D , the ride is a 4-D film, which means it is designed to make viewers feel what they are watching. For example when Donkey spits, the sneezes in front of the seats spray mist into viewers' faces. It also has moveable seats, air jets and rubber tubing, to simulate other effects such as air, "creepy crawlies" and other movements.

Jimmy Neutron's Nicktoon Blast
This ride has replaced the old Hanna Barbara ride and is a motion simulator type ride where you have to rescue Jimmy from Dastardly and Mutley.

New York:

Revenge of the Mummy is a high speed indoor steel roller coaster modelled after the popular Mummy movies. The ride opened on May 21, 2004. The Revenge of the Mummy coasters use Linear Induction Motors (LIM), a technology used to launch riders from a complete standstill. The ride lasts 3 minutes and features a top speed of 45 mph. The track is 2200 ft long featuring no inversions and a 50 degree angle of descent.
Twister... Ride it out is based on the 1996 film staring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton. The attraction takes you to a small mock-up of the Oklahoma town of Wakita. As you walk into the "Twister filming centre" Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt talk about filming the movie. Towards the end, guests walk into a scene, resembling the Drive-In scene in the movie. There is a gift shop at the end named Aftermath.

Hollywood:

Terminator 2 3-D: Battle Across Time
T2 3-D: Battle Across Time is a mini-sequel to Terminator 2: Judgment Day and reunites director James Cameron and the main cast of that movie, including Arnold Schwarzenegger as "T-800", Linda Hamilton as "Sarah Connor", Edward Furlong as "John Connor", and Robert Patrick as the "T-1000". The show is in two parts: a pre-show where a spokesperson talks about Cyberdyne and the main feature which has performers interacting with a 3-D movie.
Universal's Horror Make-Up Show
Lucy - A Tribute
A tribute to Lucille Ball.

World Expo:

Men in Black: Alien Attack
A ride that allows you to shoot aliens as you travel around the track in your rotating vehicle.

Back to the Future: The Ride
Back To The Future: The Ride is a simulator ride based on the popular film trilogy of the same name. It opened May 2, 1991 and is set to close soon. It will be replaced with a ride based on The Simpsons.

Fear Factor Live!
Take part if you dare!

San Francisco & Amity

Jaws
Jaws is a slow-moving boat ride based upon the film Jaws. It simulates a shark attack in Amity Harbour. The boats rocks back and forth and riders are splashed with water. After the shark attacks portrayed in the 1974 film Jaws.

Tourists entering the ride will be taking one of Captain Jake's Amity Boat Tours out to see the sights from the film Jaws. The boats are piloted by one of Captain Jake's skippers, and all are protected by an army surplus 40 mm grenade launchers. However, Jake is confident that you'll never need to use the grenade launchers because the last great white shark anyone has seen was in 1974. What could possibly go wrong?

Beetlejuice's Rock and Roll Graveyard Revue
A musical revue from Beetlejuice, Frankenstein, Dracula etc.
 
Earthquake- and the Magic of Special Effects at the Movies
A bit dated now but still quite popular this ride starts off with a tour showing how special effects are done in the movies. It is presented by Charlton Heston. Finally you ride an underground train where you encounter an Earthquake.

Woody Woodpecker's KidZone

A Day in the Park with Barney
Fievel's Playground
Universal's Animal Actors
Curious George Goes to Town
Woody Woodpecker's Nuthouse Coaster

E.T. Adventure
The current ride, at Universal Studios Florida, has guests begin by entering a sound stage. Before going into the queue, Steven Spielberg tells us that E.T.'s teacher Botanicus needs E.T. to come to his home world, "The Green Planet" because the planet is dying. Only E.T.'s magical healing touch can save the planet, so it is up to the guests to bring him home. He also tells the guests that you make your journey on bikes, and that you need a "Interplanetary Passport" to get there.

The guest gives the assistant their name and the card is programmed with it, which is used later in the ride. You now enter the movie set which begins the adventure. The interior queue is a forest setting where it is established that police are looking for E.T. The guests then board the ride, a car suspended from the track. Each individual seat is a bicycle, whose handles come down as the safety belt. The car brings the riders through more of the forest where it is revealed that they are to save E.T. and bring him home. Guests ride past police officers who begin to chase them away from the restricted area. As they are about to be caught, the bicycles begin to fly over the city and into outer space. They fly past an alien space ship where they are told by an alien of the same species as E.T. to bring him home. The ride emerges on E.T.'s home planet, a world of exotic plants, animals, and many others of E.T.'s species. The ride continues through the alien world until the end of the ride. At the end, guests pass an animatronic E.T. who thanks them all by the name they gave to the travel agents.

More info can be found on the Perfect Florida Villas forums or The Perfect Florida Guide