Jurassic World will bring a lot of people back to their childhood. Boasting the same soundtrack and the same creepy hiding from the dino’s (though not as suspenseful), it made me feel like that 13 year old again. Unfortunately while dazzling visually, the movie is ultimately more about the dinosaurs and fairly light on plot. Let’s not kid ourselves, that’s why you’d go see it anyway.
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoyed this movie. Fairly predictable from the get-go, that doesn’t stop it from being an epic tale worthy of “summer blockbuster” status. But in the end, though the CGI has gotten better, for me it isn’t going to go down as memorable as the first all those years ago. It picks up 20 years after the events of the first film (I’m not sure if it ignores the first 2 sequels or not, doesn’t clearly say). Jurassic Park has become Jurassic World, a full fledged amusement park that has forgotten its gory beginnings. However, with sagging attendance (“kids now look at a dinosaur the same way they look at an elephant”), the powers that be decide to genetically grow a new super dinosaur that will put butts in the seats. Of course this new terror gets out, and havoc ensues. Starring Chris Pratt, who is on a roll and is his usual likable character again, the park workers try to at first contain the problem, before ultimately realizing there’s not much they can do.
It is edge-of-your-seat thrills for most of the film, and for fans there are lots of easter eggs to bring you back to the first film. I’m sure it will make a ton of money and you will leave happy for 2 hours of nostalgia, but I wasn’t entirely satisfied with the outcome.
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