I may be a bit biased because this is part of the Jurassic Park series. My dad took me to the premier of Jurassic Park when I was eight years old. Since then, I have watched the sequels and been to the Jurassic Park land at Universal Studios. My dad also got me all of the books. Now, my daughter is five years old and she gets to watch a new Jurassic Park movie with me. This is so great.
So if you don't like dinosaurs this movie is not for you. But what about the first three movies? We have learned that dinosaurs are very dangerous and will kill people. But now we are sophisticated enough to stick them in a Seaworld type environment where the dinosaurs are more secure. Since I work for a large entertainment company, I am very familiar with how theme parks work behind the scenes. A lot of it is exaggerated and is way more high tech than real life, but that's to make it look cool. In reality our computers are so old! And they hardly ever get updated, and the wifi is spotty if it ever works at all. But we do have a kickass monorail though.
Living in Florida I have the opportunity to visit Citywalk often. It is a lot of fun, and if you've never been there, it's like a street full of shops and restaurants right before you enter Universal Studios. It doesn't require a ticket to enter, so it's cheap fun. The reason I tell you this is because the main street in Jurassic World is identical to Citywalk. I almost thought they filmed it there, but it turns out they rebuilt a set to look like it. So Jurassic Park isn't real, but hey Citywalk is.
My favorite part was the cameo of Jimmy Buffett as he runs away from the pterodactyls while carry his margaritas.
Since we have learned from past experience that dinosaurs are dangerous, there's no more threat from them. There's even a petting zoo at the park. But you know us Americans! We love Danger! Yeah, explosions fire awesome. Why do you think people watch NASCAR? It's for the crashes that's why. So a corporation (of course) sponsors a new breed of dinosaur, specifically created in a lab to be the scariest dinosaur ever. Not surprising to anyone in the audience, it escapes and destroys everything in its path. The dinosaur was created by bits and pieces of living animals, so it has many helpful advantages in the wild, such as temperature control and camouflage. Oh, they also manage a whole subplot about using raptors as weapons for the military so we now got both evil corporate greed mixed with evil government greed.
Here's my theory, which isn't in the movie at all. Owen realizes that the scary dinosaur, named Indominus Rex, is part raptor which explains her hunting prowess. She killed all the brontosauruses in the field for fun. A raptor would have killed and eaten them. A raptor's goal is to swarm an animal like a pack of wolves and devour it. But think about this. She figured out how to escape. She enjoys solving puzzles and quickly finds answers to problems. She's far smarter than any other dinosaur and uses every adaptation she has to her advantage. I believe she has human DNA in her. This explains both her incredible intelligence as well as her viciousness. I hope they will explore this further in the next movie.
This movie is fun and everything you can expect from a movie about killer dinosaurs. I will give it a 9/10.
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