Jurassic World, or as I
like to call it “the only movie in June worth seeing,” but I
suppose Jurassic World is shorter. After fourteen years since the
last film they decided, “What the hell? Let's make another one!”
And so they did! Before we go any further allow me to briefly go over
the other films.
I was four or five years
old when I saw Jurassic Park when it came out to video, never saw it
in theaters. I loved it. I was a huge dinosaur fan and had all these
toys to play with so I really, really enjoyed it. I liked the Lost
World, too, and consider it an all right sequel. Didn't like the
third movie as much. Completely forgettable.
So, when I found out
they were making a fourth one I got excited. Originally, I thought
this was a reboot, but found out before going that it's another
sequel so I was curious to see how they would continue it. Let's
dive right in and see what Jurassic World has instored!
Blows on
whistle Stop!
Introducing
the star of our show, Star-Lord
Owen Grady, a former navy turned Raptor trainer/researcher who
established a relationship with four Velociraptors named Blue,
Charlie, Delta, and Echo. Good luck telling them apart. I gotta hand
it to the movie, this is something we've never seen before. An
actual human having a friendship with one of the more dangerous
types of dinosaurs out there.
Owen takes his job
seriously and shows respect to the dinosaurs he's working with, but
don't worry, this is Chris Pratt, he still lets out the occasional
joke or two that you can laugh at. The character is overall likeable
and easy for the audience to get behind. Only really loses his
temper around idiots, and God knows he's surrounded by a lot of
those in the movie. And when the film requires him to be a badass
you know he's going to rise to the challenge like no one's business.
Welcome to
the Umbrella Corporation. Our business is life itself.
Okay, so
she isn't evil, but how awesome would it have been if she was? Claire
Dearing is the park's operations manager and sees to the day-to-day
activities of Jurassic World and is the one to bring in Owen to
check out their newly created breed of dinosaur, the Indominus
Rex. Even the movie makes fun of this name.
Claire is cool. I was
worried going in that she was going to be your typical ice queen and
it would be up to Owen to melt her heart, but none of that happened.
She is a little distant at the beginning mainly because she's
married to her work. When her nephews are in danger she's worried
about them and things of that nature.
You get to see her kick
ass, even though the nephews are less than impressed which is just
bullshit, and she has the idea of getting the T-Rex to fight the
Indominus Rex which is a lot more of a sound idea than using the
Raptors since the T-Rex is the same fucking size!
Just when you
thought it was safe to go off alone after the park tells you the ride
is close.
Here we
have our obligatory children characters for the movie, Gray and Zach.
Gray is the little one, Zach is the big one. They're the nephews of
Claire and are sent to the park by their parents who are filing for
divorce. Huh, wonder if they can get in a support group with Blake?
They're
decent. Not really much to be said about them. Gray acts like a kid,
and Zach acts like a teenager. Their only one real stupid moment is
taking off on their own for the Indominus Rex to find. You ask
yourself, “Why are kids so stupid?” Answer, “They're kids.”
Kids do stupid things.
I'm not bad,
I'm just written that way.
Victor
Hoskins is in charge of Jurassic World's private security force and a
major A douchebag. He believes that dinosaurs like the Raptors
should be deployed in the military to replace human soldiers to save
lives. As cliche as it is for people to use monsters and such as
weapons, I kind of want to see that. How cool would it be to see
dinosaurs in military situations? Okay, it might be cheesy as hell.
Hoskins
sticks out as so much of a sore thumb that it's surprising anyone
ever trusted this guy to be in his position. You just know he's
waiting for an excuse to take over, and the incident at the park
gives it to him. By that point you're just waiting for him to be
killed off because there isn't much to him as a villain. Just be a
creep, say some things the good guys disagree with, and die.
My god,
Henry Wu is a better villain and he's slated as the tertiary
antagonist. They could have taken out Hoskins entirely and just
replace him with Wu, at least he's a more interesting character.
Granted, he does get a bigger role than any of the other movies, but
is still such a minor character at the end of the day.
FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!
Moment of
truth, are the effects good? Yes. The CGI on the dinosaurs are
designed well, and you believe they're really there with maybe the
exception of the Raptors. I never questioned the existence of the
Mosasaurus, but that's mainly due to the fact it
can eat me.
I don't
know if it's just the design choice of the Raptors in this movie, or
the fact you see them more than any other dinosaur giving you time
to adjust, but either way if you're used to CGI in your movies
you're going to notice. Not that it's bad to the point that it will
spoil the film for you. In some shots they look really, really good. In other shots not so much.
Cue nostalgia
music.
The park
looks fantastic. You have a bunch of people going through everything
and watching the dinosaurs at work instead of just a select few.
We've gotten to the point where people have become bored of
dinosaurs and sees them like we see animals in a zoo, hence the
creation of the Indominus Rex to begin with.
Later down
the line a bunch of Pterodactyls get set loose and attack the
visitors at the park, sweeping them away into the air to eat them.
You were expecting it all movie (mainly because the trailer gave it
away) and when it finally happens it's like, “Oh shit!” Sadly,
they don't take advantage of having large groups of people there
except for that one scene, but it kind of makes sense they'd
evacuate the park as soon as possible after something like that.
This is for
Jurassic Park III!
At the end
the park is evacuated, Claire releases the T-Rex and we get the best
closing fight scene the movie could have closed out on. Both
Indominus and the T-Rex are biting into each other, the last
remaining Raptor teams up with the T-Rex and gets some shots in, and
Mosasaurus gets the finishing blow. I love the fact they saved the
T-Rex to the very end and had all that buildup to her reveal, and it
was worth it!
The bad
guys take off with all the samples they were working on in the lab,
Hoskins gets eaten by a Raptor, the children are reunited with
their parents, and Owen and Claire get together because... survival.
I should try that line on a woman some time.
Jurassic
World is fun for the whole family. If you're fan of Jurassic Park
then I recommend this movie. Enjoy.
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