Movie Review: Jurassic World (2015)
Jurassic World is a dumb movie, but unlike the other Jurassic Park sequels, it has a good sense of fun.
This is a dumb movie. It’s a monster movie. No effort is really made to make the dinosaurs feel like real animals, and instead, we have a legitimate antagonist in the indominus rex, a creature completely created by InGen. As dumb as that is, I’ll take it over the spinosaurus in Jurassic Park III, because it was dumb to have a real dinosaur act like a monster.
The characters are nothing special, but a little more enjoyable than I would have expected. Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy) plays Owen Grady, an ex-Navy SEAL who works on training velociraptors. He’s fairly enjoyable and grounded. He’s not nearly as goofy as he is in other movies I’ve seen him in.
A lot of this movie seems to do some things just because the other movies did, and that’s a little frustrating. There are kids put in danger because that happened in the other movies. A park-operated vehicle is attacked because that happened in the first one.
The characters do some really dumb things, none more unforgivable than Grady and some security guard going into the indominus rex’s cage when they can’t see it. They go before they have any real idea where the thing is, but they had seen a few claw marks indicating that it perhaps had escaped. Shouldn’t they have at least waited a minute for people to locate it? Anyways, it turns out obviously the monster was in the cage, and it eats some people, and escapes.
Efforts to track and capture the i-rex don’t work, leading Grady to use the raptors to try and track it down. When the raptors find it, they work with the i-rex, which turns out to have been created from a hybrid of t-rex and velociraptor, as well as some other random things. This is an exciting scene with the velociraptors killing a bunch of park officials.
The climax of the movie is the most enjoyable part, but in a very dumb way. The velociraptors turn on the indominus rex, and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard, The Help) lets out the tyrannosaurus rex, which assists the raptors in fighting the i-rex. It’s ridiculously over the top, but it’s quite fun.
That’s really how I’d describe this entire movie. It’s dumb, but fun.
Rating: 6/10
