Jurassic World

[ElleCee]

Just got back from seeing it. Underwhelming for me. GirlyGhoul, your thoughts on Bryce's character hit it for me, her character progression was kind of ridiculous. I didn't get any real sense of danger for the kids either. The younger one seemed more upset about his parents. The older one was meh, dinosaurs. This didn't do it for me. It's gonna make a ton of money but it's no summer blockbuster for me.

Mar 7, 2005 14:59:54 GMT -4 GirlyGhoul said:

But overall, the Dinos were awesome, but the story had no soul, and it obviously did not have the same emotional resonance of the first one. Not for me anyway. I was sometimes sad over imperiled dinosaurs, but not imperiled humans. Still, entertained for an afternoon. I doubt I'd ever feel the need to watch it ever again. Except for the very last scenes.

This.

[Mugsy]

Just saw this and would give it a 75%. Pretty good as far as entertaining, but some annoying things too.

The good:
- The dinos, of course.
- The entire construct of the Jurassic theme park, they really nailed that. As a big Disney World fan, I felt like it was a real park, with the chain stores, the Jurassic touches like giant chunks of Amber, the rides, the lineups, the bored teen ride operators, the tracks, the narrators on the rides, the kiddie petting zoo with the baby dinos. I love theme parks and they really got that part right, made me want to go.
- The callbacks to the original movie, so many to mention.
- The big aqua dinosaur leaping up to grab a shark dangling on a cable, heh. If you've ever been to Gatorland in Florida, that's exactly what they do,there with a chicken on a rope and a gator leaps up to open it's giant jaw to grab it. Awesome!
- Chris Pratt.

The bad:
- The tired cliche of a military guy wanting to co-opt the new tech (in this case, dinos) to use in war. Yeah sure, how are you going to control a herd (flock?) of raptors in the Middle East, idiot?
- The other tired cliche of the long time employee going rogue to make money by secretly selling embryos. Yawn.
- The entire notion that the public would be so bored and jaded by seeing actual dinosaurs that the park had to create something new just to keep people coming. Seriously? People still flock to Disneyland 50 years later and it's not a one of a kind park filled with extinct creatures. And people still go to zoos, even though those animals are in every city and have been around since forever.
- The wonky editing. Suddenly it's night? Even if they had a toss-off line like, "it's getting dark" or "it will be night soon" it would have been acceptable. It seemed like they cut 10 minutes out there.
- Why wasn't the public evacuated as soon as that giant dinosaur got loose? And dozens of people are killed. They talked about it, but they were still there at night. Surely 20,000 people, including many children, would warrant a military effort to save them.
- All those military-ish guys and weapons and they literally couldn't hit the broad side of a dino-barn.

The ridiculous:
- Bryce Dallas Howard wore a white outfit (white?!?) and it was barely dirty after all that slogging around in the jungle. She actually knelt in the mud and it wasn't dirty, oy. I won't even mention her wearing heels (or will I?) for the entire movie. I know Chris Pratt mocked her for,it, but surely she would have swapped them for some army boots at some point.
- The stupid cheesy kiss. HATE that horrid, dopey trope.

[bklynred]

I think I should've seen this in 3D. I agree, the kiss was tiresome, we get it, they're hooking up.

[lea1977]

No way she is running through the jungle in those heels. Bugged me the whole movie.

[sjankis630]

Bryce Dallas Howard wore a white outfit (white?!?) and it was barely dirty after all that slogging around in the jungle. She actually knelt in the mud and it wasn't dirty, oy. I won't even mention her wearing heels (or will I?) for the entire movie. I know Chris Pratt mocked her for,it, but surely she would have swapped them for some army boots at some point.

It was pretty stupid. But there were two parts that I thought did a good job of kind of calling her outfit out.
1) When Pratt first mentions how she is not dressed to go on the search for the kids. She does something that is completely idiotic to her outfit and Pratt rightly calls her out on it.
2) The one scene where they are escaping one of the 6-10 times they are running from dinos - where Pratt turns to help her out - and she just smokes past him (heels and all)
I chuckled at those two scenes.

That little kid is some mechanic isn't he?

[lea1977]

The more I think of this movie the more I don't like it which sucks because I was looking forward to seeing it this summer.

[luminosa]

Bryce's hair and ensemble almost ruined the movie for me. I'm not exaggerating either, it was so distracting.

[lea1977]

I understand, I was focused on her silly heels the entire movie.

[forever1267]

This was one of the ones I was really looking forward to, also, and it was just so... blah. They should have explained the park structure better, they didn't explain why D'Onofrio was there, other than to be villian-esque. And the callbacks to the first film seemed so pandering to the audience.

And that hair on Bryce! Oy!

And now Raptors are our friends? Wait, what? They're one of the scariest monsters in movie history, and now they can be controlled by a snapfinger?!??!

I was mildly entertained, but majorly disappointed. "Jurassic Universe" had better do better!!!

[ElleCee]

Jurassic Universe?

There's another movie? Oh brother.