Jurassic World:
A new theme park is built on the original site of Jurassic Park.
Everything is going well until the park's newest attraction--a genetically
modified giant stealth killing machine--escapes containment and goes on a
killing spree.
Director: Colin Trevorrow
Writers: Rick Jaffa
(screenplay), Amanda Silver (screenplay), 5 more credits ;
Stars: Chris Pratt, Bryce
Dallas Howard, Ty Simpkins
Storyline:
22 years after the original Jurassic Park failed,
the new park (also known as Jurassic World) is open for business. After years
of studying genetics the scientists on the park genetically engineer a new
breed of dinosaur. When everything goes horribly wrong, will our heroes make it
off the island?
Movie Reviews:
Very good but more a remake of the first two movies
than a sequel to the series.
Like it's dinosaur Frankenstein creation, Jurassic
World is itself a hybrid of sorts. A bright and vibrant opening that reminds
the viewer of the first time they saw the original Jurassic Park, with a voice
over by the late Richard Attenborough in introducing the park visitors and the
audience of the wonders of the first dinosaur amusement park. Sort of a tribute
to what the first movie was about and the realization of it coming true. Then
the mayhem begins and the viewer will remember the words of Professor Ian
Malcolm from the first sequel "The Lost World": "Oh, yeah. Oooh,
ahhh, that's how it always starts.
Then later
there's running and um, screaming." That's what happens after the slow
introduction of the characters and story points of "Jurassic World".
What good about this film that it's a slow burn, like the first Jurassic movie,
then it kicks like a mule with the scares and adrenalin of "The Lost
World" when the park's new attraction starts eating the tourist and it's
fellow attractions. While having both Steven Spielberg's original two films as
inspiration is a good way to create a Jurassic sequel, it's not original.
Don't get me
wrong, its very good for what it was and Chris Pratt earns his stripes as a
leading man but takes too much from both "Jurassic Park" and
"The Lost World" and just regurgitating scenes here and there to be
taken seriously as a sequel. Plus it goes into overdrive with the
scary,intelligent predator hybrid dinosaur, which comes across more like
"Predator" than a Jurassic Park movie. This dinosaur hybrid kills for
sport, not hunger or necessary and that pushes the boundaries of what the
Jurassic Park series was about. Yes, they are wild animals but this film plays
them up as good guys and bad guys then the out of its time species that did not
belong into human society. With all of that out of my system, i will admit that
i did have a good time watching "Jurassic World" and jumped quite a
few times during a few scenes.
A few inconsistencies a side, i enjoying it as
what it was. While there are obvious links to "Jurassic Park" not to
mention the fact that they are back to the original place of the first film, i
just did not feel like it was sequel to the Jurassic Park series. More a
reboot/remake of the first two movies but it could have been much worse
(Jurassic Park 3 anyone?).
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