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Jurassic World is Just Good Enough Film BENNETT DUCKWORTH
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Bennett Duckworth is a film fanatic who lives in Louisville and goes to see a movie in the theater at least once a week. He has kept a movie review blog since September of 2011 with the mission of writing about every new release he sees, as well as new trends in film making and classic films he loves. Read more of his reviews at his website.
urassic World” is the best sequel in the “Jurassic Park” franchise … and that’s a minor compliment. It’s the first entry to throw caution to the wind and behave like an unrestrained dino-rampage movie that big kids want to see. The result is a mixed bag full of fun and stupidity.
The movie asks the question: What if the intentions of the park’s creators in the first movie were eventually realized a couple decades later? In this movie, we visit an alternate universe where de-extinction is commonly accepted and the renamed “Jurassic World” is one of the most popular vacation resorts in the world. We follow two adolescent brothers (Ty Simpkins and Nick Robinson) as our surrogates into the world of the movie. The younger one of the two is excited, while the older one is distracted by his smartphone, just as impressed by real live dinosaurs as we are with modern CGI. Their Aunt Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard)
is the resort’s power-suit administrator, exhibiting careless motivation to take the park’s already booming popularity up a level with a dangerous new experiment in dino-cloning. Chris Pratt is the park’s Raptor-wrangler working on training the animals while catching the eye of a security specialist (Vincent D’Onofrio) who sees their potential for military weaponization. All these elements culminate to result in dinosaurs on the loose, kids in peril, an uptight businesswoman letting loose to save the day and a badass who can wield the rage of raptors in his favor. These contrivances are justified by the generic sci-fi jargon of writers Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver (“Rise of the Planet of the Apes”) and are lightened up with humor by director Colin Trevorrow and his regular co-writer, Derek Connolly. How their semi-entertaining comedy, “Safety Not Guaranteed,” landed them this coveted project is beyond me, but at least it isn’t boring. If there’s one thing I know, it’s that I’m probably never going to get the “Jurassic Park” sequel that I want. The original movie deserved a follow-up, which dug deeper into what the first movie started. Until this movie, we hadn’t even returned to the original island. Now I’m getting things I always wanted out of a JP sequel accompanied by
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things I never wanted out of a JP sequel. I don’t have the time to list them, but the overall experience they create is acceptable, brainless entertainment. VT
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