"Jurassic World" PG 13
Chris Prat stars as a raptor wrangler in the fourth installment of Spielberg's Jurassic Park series, based on the books by Michael Crichton. This one is not from the books though, as in the re imagined version, of which re imagining has become cliche. The park is actually opened for business since 2005 and patrons to the park was dropping. In order to drum up new people, including Bryce Dallas Howard, the park leaders create a hybrid dinosaur monster with obvious results, she gets out.
The movies harken to the fun house flicks and monster movies of old, especially Godzilla, Land of the Lost (the TV show) and any number of classic dinosaur stories. The two sequels before had a lot of dinosaurs chasing people but were weaker than the first. This movie is better than those two sequels. It took 14 years for that to happen. Although there is no Tokyo in the story, the idea of it being like Godzilla still works, as it is a rampaging dinosaur.
The park people in the story have a military group on the island led by a crazy obese colonel who wants to train dinosaurs, raptors and the like, as soldiers, which is one of the lame ideas from the earlier script they kept. The wrangler doesn't like this idea and wants him nowhere near his raptor pack. Then the crazy penned up dinlo escapes and the military guy takes over, and the park patrons are trapped.
The boys in the story are two rather unexciting and bored kids sent to the island while their parents go through some issues, and they are supposed to be watched, but the aunt lady, who happens to run the park, pays no attention to them and sends them off with a nanny who is distracted a lot. They're not so important except to be the ones current millennial kids will relate to. Since they remain elusive and bored the audience might also be elusive in return.
The hacker guy is not supposed to be connected to the original Lex or her brother Tim. He is just a bit like Lex in character. Since technology has so vastly improved there is no need for him to marvel at setting up restart on a Unix based security system.
The boys have to escape the hamster ball of doom when the white washed hybrid dino chases after it.
Then later they hotwire and resoptre a classic 1993 jeep from the first one. Now since it's a movie with cloned dinos, this being a little silly is really not an issue. Perhaps th park people left it nearly functional as it sat there in the garage, in the hope of restoring it.
Yes there are silly moments, but after checking in your brain as the film rolls, it's a lot of fun. It isn't due over analysis.
The aviary scene is fantastic, when the flying dinos get broken out as a copter crashes into it and go around dragging off people.
Some critics on the net complained that it wasn't realistic or didn't have enough gore, but it's PG 13 and it doesn't need all that. If they want reruns of Jurassic Fight Club then go watch that.
Chris Prat chews scenery more than his raptor pack tries to chew at him. He seems to enjoy the part. The military guy has fun too. The redheaded leader lady spends some time playing like she's Ellie when she's obviously not.
I will not give away what happens to everyone as that would be a spoiler fest.
See it on the big screen.
Review By Adam Browne
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