22 years after the release of Jurassic Park, we get
the fourth installment in the series, Jurassic World. Now, I will fully admit that I was never the
biggest fan of the original, even as a kid I thought it was too silly and that
Tim was annoying. It had dinosaurs,
though, and felt like they were just huge animals. Sure, the Tyrannosaurus Rex
was a hungry killer, but he was hunting for food. The Raptors used their pack to surprise and
corner people (Clever girl!) and their intelligence to slowly adapt to their
surroundings, like when they learned how to open doors. Jurassic World chose to forgo any
semblance of making a movie about the terrifying power of nature and instead made
a monster movie using basic horror themes and then tries to become a kaiju tokusatsu at the end.
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| It looks pretty bad, but she gets it SO much worse than you expect. Like ridiculously over-the-top |
We open the movie with a shot of an egg having a claw burst
out and a sinister reptilian eye peeking out, showing that this movie’s focus
is on horror movie tropes, rather than human character development. It then shifts to Gray (Ty Simpkins) and Zach
(Nick Robinson), two brothers who are both as infuriating as Tim was in the
original. Gray is precocious motormouth who wildly runs about, while Zach is an
angsty teen who just wants to stare at girls and rebel against authority. A rushed and unresolved plot of their parents’
potential divorce is introduced before they are shipped off to Jurassic World
for a vacation with their Aunt Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard), who runs the
day-to-day business of the theme park and is regimented and firm in following a
planned agenda. Last we meet the two
opposite ends of the military training spectrum, Hoskins (Vincent D’Onofrio)
who has a need to mention he wants to use dinosaurs in military operations
every time he opens his mouth, and Owen (Chris Pratt) our hero who trains
velociraptors.
