Jurassic World 2015

To be honest, I was expecting something entirely different. This was a whole different fare for me, and it never felt like an adventure, but more like a s*** hits the fan CGI-fest. Two kids are sent by their ass-tired parents (hey, Judy Greer!) to a totally secure JP that has been operating without major problems for 10 years in order to visit their aunty, who happens to run the whole operation, and who's too busy to care any less for them. Like an echo from the 90's, the big bad corporation who runs the park has a CEO who decides to create a new dino species with the initial motive of boosting ticket sales, because as any parent who has taken her/his kids to Orlando surely know, Mickey can be fun for the little devils only a few times. Their ulterior motive is revealed later, and I won't spoil it for you, but it's as just as lame as you might expect and totally unrealistic (like taming a flesh-eating tornado to kill your enemies). Anyway, as it could be predicted, the "asset goes out of containment" and things go awfully wrong. One single dino literally wrecks havoc and destroys a muti-billion touristic attraction.The whole time I was thinking in the back of my mind "Gosh, those lawsuits are gonna be awful, InGen and Masrani Corp are soooooo broke right now". It's a so-predictable late 90's movie that it's a little bit more fun than JP3, but only barely. The story has many plot holes and tries to support itself on outdated conventions. What made this flick at least tolerable for me (besides the excellent 3D conversion), was Chris Pratt as the "Raptor Whisperer" who becomes (of course) the "reluctant" hero who happens to be also humble and funny (and a former lover of the kids aunty). He's getting typecast so fast into those roles, I'm afraid. My hopes were too high for this movie, and I was utterly disappointed. Maybe you won't, until you settle down from the adrenaline rush and notice the paper thin story. Sequels like this one are the reason why I own only the first JP movie in Blu-ray, and gave away the other two.

So after the absolutely massive opening weekend box office, it's clear that there will be more "Jurassic World" coming. Is that a good thing? Well, we are talking dinosaurs here, and to me, almost everything is better with dinosaurs.

Look. This is not a movie without all kinds of problems, including annoying kids, some absolutely stupid military super-soldier subplot involving the raptors, a boring performance by Chris Pratt, and tons of product placement.

But I think I mentioned it before. There are dinosaurs.

I don't care that these weren't all real dinosaurs, that they were hybrids. They looked cool and they were at times, quite scary. People get attacked in this movie. Pterodactyls swarm the amusement park crowds. Raptors and Rexes munch people. There's real danger throughout which I'm thinking would be the case if the beasts were real. This isn't the "good" Terminator shooting people in the leg.

Thankfully, I was able to get carried away by this movie. I didn't scoff or pick it apart while I watched it and I came out of the theater satisfied. I knew going in that I had just bought a ticket to escape reality for a couple of hours and "Jurassic World" delivered. I can look back at it now and find things to be critical of, but it was still a fun flick. And again, there were dinosaurs.

"Hold on to your butts".

Jurassic World takes place 22 years after the original Jurassic Park failed the new park (also know as Jurassic World) is open for business. Jurassic World welcomes visitors from around the world to explore the wonders of seeing dinosaurs roam the Earth once again. Yet waning attendance has the Masrani Corporation focused on a new attraction - a genetically-modified dinosaur - a brand new species - but the plan backfires and threatens everyone on the island.

Jurassic World is a movie that nobody thought was going to happen, and that's because of the long development and the little bits of rumors about the project and that's the behind the scenes and some of the people who was working on the film dropped out due to many different reasons. Me and almost everyone give up on the film getting made, I mean it's been about 14 years (As I speak) since the third movie came out and the very last time we sawed Jurassic Park. Until one day, it happened, it finally happened. We finally got the movie we been waiting for and the first teaser trailer may have some people mixed about it, but almost everyone was excited for Jurassic World, and that's because the trailer caught that magic and wonder that Spielberg's Jurassic Park had.

Now after seeing the movie yesterday I got to say it's a way way better movie than Jurassic Park 3, but not as brilliant as Steven Spielberg Jurassic Park but I think I'm being a bit too harsh comparing the too because nothing can't top the first one and I wasn't really expecting this movie to do that, I'm just saying.

The director of the movie Colin Trevorrow has spoken out before saying how much he loved the first Jurassic Park movie and how that was he's childhood nostalgic. Now the only movie I've seen Colin Trevorrow directed is Safety Not Guaranteed which I sawed about couple days ago and I thought that movie was good but with many flawless which I will go into one day in my upcoming review for it, but anyway Colin Trevorrow as a director he's pretty good and in this movie he's directing was a bit off at times in a couple of scenes, but the rest of the time I thought he did good directing.

Chris Pratt was hands down the biggest stand out of the whole movie. Chris really won me over of being a down to earth action star with movies like Zero Dark Thirty and Guardians of the Galaxy. Every time he was on screen I was interested in his character because he was cool and was the only likable person in the movie. Chris Pratt did a awesome job in the movie and if they do make another Jurassic Park movie I really hope he's in it because he was the only enjoyable character in this movie.

The one thing I was a bit worried about before seeing the movie is the amount of CGI used in the movie, I mean just judging by the trailer they looked like a lot and yes these loads of CG in the movie, but for the most part it did look good at times and during the action scenes. But I will agree that these a little bit too much of it and some of it looks unfinished and didn't look like it's in the same environment with the actors.

The Indominus Rex in the movie was both menacing, scary and freaking cool and refreshing to see. The end battle which I won't give away was the highlight of the movie and it was a great way to end the movie.

I also love how the movie tells everyone to forget Jurassic Park 3, it's like a sorry letter to the fans and admitting that the third one sucked, even through this movie isn't flawless as well.

Now for the problems: Now I talked about Chris Pratt character being the whole good thing in the movie...well that's saying a lot if you compare he's character to the rest, because every character in this movie are dull and flat or just idiotic. I think the movie mostly focus on is action scenes and the dinosaurs being cool, but not really focusing on the character and let's not forget that what made the original Jurassic Park movie so special is the character's and how likable they are. Bryce Dallas Howard character was one unlikable character and the movie tries to make you like her towards the end, but I still didn't like her.

The writing in this movie is really flat and pretty awful at times. Now I have seen many movies that I can picture in my head of the writers just given up and put whatever down to make them feel that it good enough, but this is very close to being that. These many plot holes in the movie and scenes that didn't really make any sense at all, like how people are getting pretty bored of the dinosaurs thing, I mean WHAT!, how on earth can you be bored of seeing dinosaur's it's like the best thing to happen in a long time, now I now the movie does explain why but I don't buy into that at all. Oh and there's another sub plot in the movie with this government people wanting to take the velociraptor in war zone for a military weapon and that right there is so freaking stupid and so idiotic to do, because velociraptor can't just kill bad people they can turn on you because it's in they nature to kill and to them your just meat to eat.

The kid actors in the movie didn't do terrible job when it comes to acting, but they are scenes where they keep looking straight at the camera like most kid actors do, I know it's only for a split second but it took me of the movie a little bit and I couldn't take it seriously when they did that, and it happens more then once in the movie. The movie keeps cutting back to them and they not interesting at all and slowed down the movie for me.

The movie keeps re-creating or showing scenes that are just like the original Jurassic Park movie and after a while it got a bit annoying and pretty old really fast, I mean I would like if they just did a new movie with a new story, and not just keep going back to the original Jurassic Park and telling us how great Jurassic Park was.

Overall rating: Jurassic World is a big improvement from Jurassic Park 3. It may seem like I'm nick picking here but that's just my honest thoughts of the movie. You may like it more then me and these nothing wrong with that, I thought the movie was good if I was judging it only as a Jurassic Park movie, but the movie dose have many flaws that could be improved on easily. Beside that I enjoyed the movie for what it was and I wouldn't mind seeing it again.

Before we review a film like Jurassic World, we need to state one basic rule. We will try not to compare it too much to our memories of the original. Jurassic Park is one of my favourite childhood films, and thus is etched into my mind as a masterpiece that no other dino flick can reach, therefore any sequel would not be up to par. Also, it's worth noting that before going in, I had already seen/heard lots of thoughts and opinions (it's near impossible not to tbh when you have the current action hero Chris Pratt starring, and listen to the Nerdist podcasts).

So, let's get into this, I am not sure we need a synopsis for this film, so I will keep this brief. In the previous film(s) dinosaurs had been brought back from extinction, and they ate some people. In this film, corporate sponsors decided to try it all again, but people are bored of dinos now, so they create a new one. This leads towards, yup, dinosaurs eating people.

Do you need to have watched the previous film(s)? No, not really, although you should anyway. There are a few scenes where the characters don't explain where they are, but if you have seen the first film, you will know and recognise the vehicles/equipment, but if you don't know, nothing is really lost.

My main concerns going into this film though, were not about the plot or dinos, but around whether I would actually connect with any of the characters, the kids looked annoying, as did the Clare character, also, I didn't just want another Star Lord character from Pratt. That being my main concern, this was actually pushed back after the first quarter of the film, once some actual peril was inserted into the plot, Clare quickly opened up to be a proper character, and the kids were less screamy than I thought they were going to be (my scream limit was at the brink in the first film, I must say). As for Pratt, he brought some light humour, but not the loose cannon style we have seen before from him, he was knowledgeable and serious, with a light tongue-in-cheek style which worked nicely.

The other concern was from the trailers, in that Pratts character seemingly communicates with the raptors. Now we all saw Indy IV with Mutt speaking to his monkey army (sorry to all those that were trying to forget that nonsense), and I was really fearful this would again be the case. Well, set your minds at ease, it's portrayed in a much more realistic way, where he is merely slowing the raptors down and feeding them. This gives the illusion of control, which is a central point of the Jurassic films.

The last point, which you may have read a lot on is the marketing in-film with a lot of product placements. I will keep this brief, it is there, and there are parts of the plot which use this in a really nice way. I did not feel it over the top in a Waynes World style as others have implied, and am often suprised I don't see more of this on TV (especially as ad breaks are dying out)

So, with those pre-concerns out of the way, what did I think of the film? Well as a film, it was really good. We got the action and poor-judgements we expect in this sort of film. There is also some family turmoil (with the kids and their parents) which thankfully is not suddenly resolved because of this disaster (that would have close to ruined the film for me if they had).

Sadly there was one thing missing in my opinion, but if you think about it, it makes sense based on the plot points and story (bigger, scarier). There are no small dinos, even the petting dinos are baby ones of larger dinos. One of the few things I liked about JP2 was the small dinos which stalked and nibbled people to death, they were proper scary. This is maybe the point which carries my only real negative opinion of the film, there was no fear factor. The big dinos, whilst amazing to look at, and are dangerous, aren't scary enough. Yes they added some extra stealth features, but still, in JP1 we had the stealthy raptors, and in JP2 we had the micro-dinos. The third film did not have the dinos, but it was a different type of movie IMHO than the other films (note, I did enjoy JP3). But JP4, the closest I got to good scary dinos was from the birdcage, so wish those had stealthed a little more like in 'the birds'.

Finally, for better or for worse, the ending involves something that reminded me of some kind of dinobot teamup, I quickly got over that, but it was still there, and a little less realistic because of it.

Overall this was a really good/fun film, which I certainly enjoyed. That said, the fear factor (mini dinos/ flying dinos) really was the missing element for me. I don't want to be in a cinema of crying children, but having the silhouetted mini dinos in a long creeper scene would have been great.

It definitely deserves to sit in the Jurassic Park series though, and is probably a good 2nd in my list of JP films (although I do wonder what those that weren't born to JP1 in the cinema think of that ordering).

My wifes review
Me: Did you like the film?
Wife: yes, it was all raaaaargh and stuff

The sequel to the 2015 blockbuster hit Jurassic World, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, directed by J.A. Bayona, returns with the beloved character Rexy. Expectations were high for Bayona to bring something fresh to a franchise in need of new ideas, but does he deliver? Four years after the chaos on Isla Nublar, a volcano threatens to wipe out the remaining dinosaurs on the island. A group of scientists, including former park employee Claire (Howard) and dino trainer Owen (Pratt), travel to the island to save as many species as possible, but soon discover that the team's true intentions are not as noble as they seem. The creation of a genetically modified hybrid dinosaur, the Indoraptor, adds to the already unstable situation. While the movie showcases some visually stunning moments and raises important themes, it falls short in areas such as character development and storytelling. The lead actors, Howard and Pratt, bring strong chemistry to their roles but the villains of the film are underdeveloped. The movie shines when the dinosaurs are on screen, but fails to maintain the same level of excitement when they're not. The Indoraptor is a highlight, but ultimately underused. The film manages to balance moments of levity with darker, more tense scenes, but ultimately falls short of its potential.

La secuela del éxito de taquilla de 2015 Jurassic World, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, dirigida por J.A. Bayona, regresa con el entrañable personaje de Rexy. Las expectativas eran altas para que Bayona trajera algo nuevo a una franquicia que necesitaba nuevas ideas, pero ¿las cumple? Cuatro años después del caos en Isla Nublar, un volcán amenaza con acabar con los dinosaurios que quedan en la isla. Un grupo de científicos, incluida la ex empleada del parque Claire (Howard) y el entrenador de dinosaurios Owen (Pratt), viajan a la isla para salvar tantas especies como sea posible, pero pronto descubren que las verdaderas intenciones del equipo no son tan nobles como parecen. La creación de un dinosaurio híbrido genéticamente modificado, el Indoraptor, se suma a la ya inestable situación. Si bien la película muestra algunos momentos visualmente impresionantes y plantea temas importantes, se queda corta en áreas como el desarrollo de personajes y la narración. Los actores principales, Howard y Pratt, aportan una fuerte química a sus papeles, pero los villanos de la película están subdesarrollados. La película brilla cuando los dinosaurios están en la pantalla, pero no logra mantener el mismo nivel de emoción cuando no lo están. El Indoraptor es un punto culminante, pero finalmente infrautilizado. La película logra equilibrar los momentos de ligereza con escenas más oscuras y tensas, pero finalmente no alcanza su potencial.

The film is certainly a lot of fun and probably the best of the Jurassic sequels, including Spielberg’s own Lost World. It is by no means perfect, but after three sequels, there is the realisation that frankly there are limited variations of the story that will work and there are only so many ways you can run and hide from a dinosaur. In an age where the special effects that the original ushered in have largely been perfected and where any number of dinosaurs can be added to a scene, there is nothing in the entire franchise that can match the original T-Rex attack from Jurassic Park. That said, Trevorrow does a pretty good job of imitating Spielberg’s own set pieces, with plenty of fun references to the original, though this is also a detriment to some of the action beats that seem more focused on reminding the audience of these references. Fortunately, there is still a lot of tension and excitement to be had from the chase/hunt/stalk scenarios that the film throws up. The film also builds nicely on the evolution of the velociraptors and their behaviour in the franchise. There was potential for ridicule here, but the film sells the outlandish premise largely as a result of Chris Pratt’s very likeable performance, but also by making sure the raptors are still dangerous. A largely successful summer blockbuster then that proves dinosaurs can still be entertaining, but the inevitable sequels will surely suffer diminished returns given the limited scope for taking the story further.

The Five Faces of JURASSIC WORLD

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Reinvigorating the franchise with fresh faces, new ideas and a setting fitting for new audiences, Colin Trevorrow's Jurassic sequel is a wonderful callback to Spielberg's original, while still being different enough to stand on its own.

Chris Pratt makes for an altogether great lead, and he shines on screen together with the impeccable Bryce Dallas Howard, in a traditionally strong female part, equalling Julianne Moore in Lost World.

The two children are probably the best in the franchise so far, and actually feel like necessary assets in the story as a whole. Their roles are expanded in comparison with the children in the previous films.

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The CGI is great as usual, but the film also cleverly utilizes physical effects on the dinosaurs. It's as magical as back in the first film.

The film stays true to the franchise by bringing back fan-favorite dinosaurs, but surprises by doing some new things with them. The humanizing of the dinosaurs is particularly interesting, an I'm accordance with current trends.

Some references and callbacks to the 1993 original are bound to excite fans. They are small and insignificant to the plot, but delicious none the less.

The lighthearted atmosphere in the first half of the film helps make the film feel warm and magical, much in the way the first film did.

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The music has been inspired by the immortal John Williams score but is, unfortunately, less memorable.

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The Final Face: :smiley:

Possessing neither the industrial significance nor the inherent majesty of the Spielberg original, it was always going to be a tall order for this modern revival to stack up. It's wise to do its own thing for the most part, though nudge-grin-wink references to the first film appear shamelessly (and, often, charmingly) around every corner. And while it's fun to point and smile at the familiar scraps of a 22-year-old film, at some point it feels like the new effort is too frightened of its own merits to cast them aside.

At root, it's a simple mindless summer disaster movie with the spice of CGI dinosaurs thrown in where the earthquakes/volcanoes/tidal waves would usually go. Measured against that standard, it's still an awfully dumb bucket of over-familiar plot churn, but it feels more understandable and appropriate.

Long gone are the delicate ruminations on nature, humanity and our impending role as technological gods, cast aside in favor of more sizzle and fresh dino gimmicks. For all the trailer's promises that the new big bad is meaner, faster and - most importantly - smarter, it really doesn't seem to do all that much beyond stomping around the park and killing anything in sight. The new cast, helmed by Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard (who, impressively, manages to dash through jungle and mountain in a pair of stylish heels), doesn't seem much brighter.

A fair enough way to kill a couple hours at the cinema, but be prepared for a healthy dose of eyeball-rolls and manufactured drama.

I will fully admit I was trepidations when I heard there was going to be an all-out attempt to make a ‘decent’ and exciting sequel to Jurassic Park after the last three from the film were all truly dreadful. Much like the upcoming Bladerunner sequel I don’t think the film was called for and seemed doomed to never live up to expectations. The first and still best Jurassic film, Jurassic Park, whilst still preposterous was perfectly cast, had a driven storyline, where the protagonists seemed in genuine danger and for the most part you were never fully sure what the outcome was going to be. But that is the past, a long time in the past, in fact it is dead and buried and will never be resurrected. This film, if it achieves anything, highlights just how good and ground-breaking Jurassic Park really was.

For all its good intentions, for all the lorry-loads of money it has made, seems to have been written with two things in mind. Entertaining but not confusing those under the age of say…ten, and having lots of exciting action set-pieces and great CGI. So on those fronts it probably succeeds.

Unfortunately it also succeeds in upping the quota of horrible Hollywood clichés and poor character development.
For instance, Chris Pratt is a funny, likeable and charismatic presence on TV and now the big screen. Yet in this film all I know about Owen is he was an ex-Marine, I think, is good a wrangling velociraptors and went on a date with Bryce Howard’s character. That’s it. He does come up with the more level headed suggestions and ideas and therefore you would probably want him to die last or something but all I felt was it was a waste of great talent. Still he now has a billionaire-dollar movie on his CV and what with Guardians of Galaxy could he care less about what I think?

Talking about Bryce Howard, oh it’s the senior management, ice-queen, who has no time for family and only sees everything as figures on a Spreadsheet. I’ve never seen that before. If Pratt’s character is one-dimensional, Howard’s has no description. I have never seen her in a good role yet so I don’t really know if she is good actor or not. She does wear far too much make-up though – I mean It really is slathered on.

The two kids, who get into trouble by being utter twits, are possibly the most unlikable children characters in a film for some time and they do have some competition. I was hoping they would get eaten but I knew in my heart they wouldn’t. Talking of which why was the film so determined to kill off their handler, Irish actor Katie McGrath, in such a long drawn out and frankly unpleasant way? What did she do to deserve such attention? Listening to the talking heads on the Blu Ray extras it appears that director and ‘writer’ Trevorrow added this scene because it was the most awesome death scene in a Jurassic Park film. He described it like an eight-year, which is how he said he approached the film. See I told you made and written for small children. Whilst were somewhere around the topic both my wife and I were wondering how many pteranodons, pterosaurs and other flying reptiles the ‘flying creatures dome’ actually held. With the exciting set piece of explosions and broken glass it appeared about ten thousand flew out prompting my wife to remark ‘oh for goodness sake’.
I believed Vincent D’Onofrio was a serious actor who took his job seriously. After seeing this film, where he played a baddy who is also less than one-dimensional, I have changed my mind. Also, hoping to get the ‘raptors and use them as weapons for the military as super-weapons. Is this plot device ever going to get old?

One thing I did learn from the film is blue-collar Joe’s are lazy shiftless idiots who tend to get eaten and senior management and scientists are cold and heartless with little thought for the average person – so they probably deserve the shiftless idiots they employee. In all honesty every single storyline and character is lazy, derivative and shows a huge lack of imagination on behalf of the story writers and film makers. Considering how much they get paid for coming up with ideas and how brilliant we are constantly told they are stuff like this is hugely disappointing.

The ending of this film I take as a personal affront to my dignity and intelligence. How anyone involved or not in this film can read the scripted ending, then see the filmed ending and say, ‘That’s great it’s a wrap, fantastic, edge of the seat stuff, audiences will love it’, questions all the beliefs I ever had with actors, directors and writers, a group of people I generally hold to be imaginative, creative and more capable that I could be in three lifetimes. Disappointment just does not adequately describe my feelings.

So apart from being super-clichéd, hugely unoriginally and frankly insulting apparently this film is brilliant because it has dinosaurs chasing people all over the place.

At the end of the day Jurassic World has made billions of dollars and from the general public has received a far few ‘five star’ reviews. So another is on the way. Soon, someone is going to make a film that is just car crashes, explosions and CGIed flashing colours and it will still make millions.

Yes, Jurassic World does have a crashing, exploding helicopter in it and it is not a sign-posted event early on the film at all, honestly.

This is genuinely a hold your head in your hands movie.

Send the aliens from Independence Day: Resurgence to wipe out this particular landmark please – now.

I must agree with most comments here. The reason i gave this movie a 7 is because of the cgi effects an the sound effects. Good Camara and a very sharp picture. But please whats with this story and this dumb slogans? I thought in times of such good series like mr. robot, breaking bad, and so on where you have a great story great actors these hilarious stupid conversations and storys should already be dead for good . but these movie proved me wrong. Maybe its made for a younger audience.

The note that the mother was giving their two children before the flight, this was when i realized its going to be one of these movies. Special Effects and great sound but nothing else really.
The beginning was fine until i would say this thing broke out. Just switch of your brain after that and use your eyes and ears.

I really thing they spend 99% of the production time on making the CGI, Camara and Sound and 1% for the story and the acting.
So be prepared for whats coming if you are watching this. And one more thing. If something hunts you run! Ohh my god now i did it myself. See the bad influence of such horrible movies on my every day living :).

If you got a good equipment at home try it out and wait for the neighbors to come knocking on your door :) .