A look at
Pre-amble: I have been eagerly awaiting this film since I first caught wind of it, and it is clear I was not the only one, as Jurassic World now has won out the biggest opening weekend for a movie in history. I think everyone quite loves the concept, and for all the re-makes and re-vamps gracing our theatres I feel as if not very many people can be upset about a new dinosaur movie, a category that has been quite sparse in the wave of zombies, dystopian futures, and Avenger blockbusters.
Plot: The plot is pretty well covered in the trailers but in case you haven't seen them I shall elucidate you . Basically Jurassic World has done well for itself, but as is the life of money grabbing corporations, they needed more, and in order to really give the park a new wow factor to re-invigorate crowds, the scientists int he dino-labs cooked together a toothy, spiny, scary as hell new dinosaur and dubbed it Indominus Rex. Of course as all plans involving creating scary monsters goes, it totally backfires and voila, we get to watch dinosaurs maim and murder people!
Thoughts: As an individual always in love with Dinosaurs, growing up with Jurassic Park, Land Before Time, We're Back, BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs, Primeval, etc, my opinion was set walking into this movie, cemented with Chris Pratt's role, I mean an individual training a velociraptor squad? Sold.
That being said I'll jump into a bit about the characters as there is quite the little cast to get acquainted with. BD Wong makes a reprisal of his role as a scientist from the original park, and the new owner makes plenty of remarks about how his position was gained from Hammond himself. I was quite pleased to see Jake Johnson (Nick to any New Girl fans out there) in this as a bigger role than I was anticipating, playing the part of the ever important snarky tech guy. Because I can't recall his name the fellow that plays Wilson Fisk in Netflix's new Darevil series plays the part of the overbearing military persona. If you haven't seen Daredevil yet I would highly recommend it, as the character he plays in the show is highly superior to this much more one dimensional role, however he does a good job at the ignorant dick.
Chris Pratt is obviously the highlight of the four main characters; Owen the velociraptor trainer, Claire (Bryce Howard) the uptight individual apparently in charge of keeping everything running, and the two boys, Claire's nephews that come to the Park for a family trip. Pratt is at his peak in the smart talking role of the person with the most sense of the whole movie, but Howard catches up after things really start hitting every fan.
What I always hope for in one of these films is to be introduced to new and different dinosaurs, and apart from the spliced rex we do not get much of that, but this is made up for quite a bit with the raptor focus, Blue is probably my favorite character in the movie, and even given what I would consider quite a lot of character development for a velociraptor.
There is a distinct lack of realism, especially at the end of the film, but if you're like me and enjoy movies about the resurrection of dionsaurs, I don't think you'll mind it overly much. Jurassic World is an exciting, action pack, and graphically compelling movie with some nice nods to the first film of the franchise and and really this review can be summed up with three words:
Chris Pratt + Velociraptors = Awesome |
|