'The Lost World' is still personally a better sequel, to me at least. At least that film did things differently. This film, the only remotely new and interesting thing is the functionality of the 'world'. Yet even then it introduces some ridiculous scenarios.
There was nothing that truly Wowed me or surprised me in Jurassic World. It's real sad how we've come more than 20 years later since 'Jurassic Park', and the effects in the original surpass this movie by a landslide. Even in this movie's admittedly Awesome, Incredible finale, when T-Rex shows up to save the day, I didn't believe one bit that he was there. One of the best things about the original 'Jurassic Park' were the perfect animatronic effects of the dinosaurs, particularly involving the T-Rex. In 'Jurassic World', it's all CGI. The CGI effects look so fuzzy and pixelated, compared to when they first started out two decades earlier. I've asked this before, and I'll ask again: What happened?!
It's kind of a roller coaster of mixed emotions. I felt like that once I was starting to give up on hope for this movie, something briefly comes up that sparks my interest, but then it immediately goes back into generic territory. Then it shows me something kind of cool and interesting again, but decides not to fully focus on that, and goes back to being bland. There's clearly little sense of direction or inspiration here.
Bigger is almost never better. There's more dinosaurs, but less wonder and awe. There's more action and violence, but much less build up and suspense.
There are cool moments here and there. Like the scenes with the velociraptors being tamed and going on the hunt. And, Spoiler Alert: T-Rex, the king (or queen) itself, coming to save the day from 'Inconceivable'-Rex is the most epic of fight scenes. I know 'Inconceivable'-Rex has got a different name in the movie, but that's what I prefer to call it... Everything else is phoned in. The majority of all else in the movie is just so stupid and cliche that it overshadows the really cool stuff.
This also brings up probably my main problem with the movie: The sheer, unbelievable stupidity of creating an entirely new, carnivorous dinosaur from scratch. And making it bigger, badder and even more lethal than any other. Which is all for publicity? And Chris Pratt's character, of course, who does Not work in the hybrid-Rex department, ironically is the only one with a brain stem telling these "scientists" how to do their jobs. The idea that the original park never worked out in the first place, so they just decide to make an even bigger, therefore more lethal and dangerous park (What's the worst that could happen?), is downright insulting to both me and the audience's intelligence.
It's almost shameful, to me, to think that this movie is in honor of the brilliant 'Jurassic Park', when it didn't even recollect the very words of Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) from the original movie: "You've stood on the shoulders of geniuses, to accomplish something as fast as you could. And before you even knew what you had, you patented it and packaged it, slapped it on a plastic lunch box. And now you're selling it, you wanna sell it!" Or better yet, on the thought process of whether or not to make this movie: "You're so preoccupied with whether or not you could, that you didn't stop to think if you should."
My rating: 1.5 / 4
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