Jurassic World

Jurassic World

Rating 7 out of 10

I have to admit I LOVED Jurassic Park.  I think I gave it one of my very few 10's back in 1993.  So the bar was set very high for this movie.  It comes close to the bar but in my opinion does not reach it.

With Jurassic World we fast forward 23 years from when the original Park went haywire and people were eaten.  They now feel they have it under control and it's been a type of Disney World with teeth for many years.  People flock to Costa Rica to see dinosaurs up close.  Little kids ride them like ponies.  People kayak along creeks with them.  Huge whale sized shark fish do tricks like Sea World. Already people are getting bored with dinosaurs.  The corporate types are feeling the need to up the ante every couple years to keep attendance up.  As you have seen in the hundreds of commercials to get people in the park they decide to create the biggest, coolest, meanest dinosaur ever.  Amazingly enough that doesn't go well.  People get eaten.

Million$ are spent on the dinosaurs.  No much was spent on the paint by numbers storyline.  I know, what am I thinking?  A complicated plot on a dinosaur movie?  They had a check list.  Need a heartless corporate type that only cares about the bottom line.  Check (Bryce Dallac Howard).  Hunky ultra-maintaince man type that cares for the toothy dinosaurs like they were his kids. Check (Chris Pratt). Evil military guy that only wants to get his hands on the dinosaurs to use at weapons even tho it makes no sense. Check (Vincent D'Onofrio).  Floppy haired kid that needs a hair cut and gets on Royce's nerves.  Check.

This movie moves well and there are some cool dinosaurs.  My movie buddy Ted would say I'm being way too hard on it.  I probably am.  I was hoping for another 10 and got a 7.  Was surprised the special effects was not really any better than 23 years ago.  Shows how incredible the original was.

Still well worth seeing.  I was entertained.