Jurassic World was basically everything I was looking for in a Jurassic Park movie spin-off. Dinosaurs eating people, thudding footsteps in the rain, reviving the jeeps from the first film to escape Velociraptors, helicopters spiraling into aviaries filled with angry Pterodactyls, children turned upside down in vehicles while a Tyrannosaurus-type creature tried to eat them, all the 'bad' guys getting methodically eaten in some kind of moral reckoning and finally, a slight addition to expectations was the incompetent British nanny getting viciously eaten by a ginormous water dinosaur which eats great white sharks for it's afternoon snack.
It was essentially exactly the same plot as the very first movie with some minor twists thrown into the mix such as the older sibling this time was male and... well that's about it folks. No, I'm kidding the whole idea is that the film is a deliberate throw-back to the original film (reviving the original jeeps, children screaming with one pane of glass between them and mutant T-Rex, a majestic dinosaur dying causing the unsympathetic lady of the film to re-examine herself etc.) with a genetically modified, super-intelligent, mutant T-Rex throwing the balance of the park out of sync and causing a very similar melt-down to the first film. The eventual moral of the story is once again that we cannot control nature.
Except for Chris Pratt playing Owen - he's quite handy when a Raptor is around.
The park, ten years on and supposedly learning from the lessons of the original park, is more disney-fied. And the whole movie is just too clean. Where are the mud covered children? And how did the main female lead Claire stay so clean in her white top? I needed a few more of the Kirsten Dunst, jelly-shaking-on-a-spoon terrified moments - maybe slightly less totally incompetent SWAT teams.
Overall, it was a genuinely entertaining 124 minutes. I'll admit it made me appreciate the very first Jurassic Park even more. It's amazing when you think this was made in 1993 - and somehow the CGIed dinosaurs from Jurassic World are still not living up to the awesome and perfectly realistic robotics from the 90s. And when did the raptors get so much more friendly looking?
Also, reading about the cooking up of the new mutant dinosaur and the inspiration for basically every man in the movie I can even forgive the repeat of the 90s sexism where the female lead insists on wearing heels and despite working at a living, breathing dinosaur park for 10+ years appears to know literally less than the seven year old about dinosaurs. I'm hoping in the next film we get to enjoy the presence of a female lead who ditches the heels and does a bit of prior Dino reading up.
It was essentially exactly the same plot as the very first movie with some minor twists thrown into the mix such as the older sibling this time was male and... well that's about it folks. No, I'm kidding the whole idea is that the film is a deliberate throw-back to the original film (reviving the original jeeps, children screaming with one pane of glass between them and mutant T-Rex, a majestic dinosaur dying causing the unsympathetic lady of the film to re-examine herself etc.) with a genetically modified, super-intelligent, mutant T-Rex throwing the balance of the park out of sync and causing a very similar melt-down to the first film. The eventual moral of the story is once again that we cannot control nature.
Except for Chris Pratt playing Owen - he's quite handy when a Raptor is around.
The park, ten years on and supposedly learning from the lessons of the original park, is more disney-fied. And the whole movie is just too clean. Where are the mud covered children? And how did the main female lead Claire stay so clean in her white top? I needed a few more of the Kirsten Dunst, jelly-shaking-on-a-spoon terrified moments - maybe slightly less totally incompetent SWAT teams.
Overall, it was a genuinely entertaining 124 minutes. I'll admit it made me appreciate the very first Jurassic Park even more. It's amazing when you think this was made in 1993 - and somehow the CGIed dinosaurs from Jurassic World are still not living up to the awesome and perfectly realistic robotics from the 90s. And when did the raptors get so much more friendly looking?
Also, reading about the cooking up of the new mutant dinosaur and the inspiration for basically every man in the movie I can even forgive the repeat of the 90s sexism where the female lead insists on wearing heels and despite working at a living, breathing dinosaur park for 10+ years appears to know literally less than the seven year old about dinosaurs. I'm hoping in the next film we get to enjoy the presence of a female lead who ditches the heels and does a bit of prior Dino reading up.
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