Jurassic World
(USA, 124 min.)
Dir. Colin Trevorrow, Writ. Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver and Colin Trevorrow
& Derek Connolly
Starring: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Nick Robinson,
Ty Simpkins, Vincent D’Onofrio, Irrfan Khan, Omar Sy, Judy Greer.
Jurassic World
makes the dinosaurs bigger, louder, meaner, and scarier, but it doesn’t make
them better. Park jumped the shark
with the third Jurassic movie, and
this fourth installment arguably returns the franchise to a respectable-enough
level, yet the magic of the Jurassic
world is gone. The loss is ironic, since the gist of Jurassic World is that audiences don’t find dinosaurs very exciting,
so their scientists and corporate stiffs need to amp up the crazy and unleash a
new monster upon the masses every now and then. The idea follows the same
business plan: give an old film an extra shot of adrenaline, a lot of obvious product
placement, and some more CGI, and audiences flock to the theatre like kids
seeing a new dino. Jurassic World goes
Godzilla the fourth time around as it
roars and bares its teeth: if only the scientists behind the genetic engineering
gave it a bigger brain.