Jurassic World
A great many teenagers will be seeing this movie this weekend who weren't even born when Jurassic Park III came out in 2001. It's been a full fourteen years since the last one came out and that's why I don't get where the hype is coming from for this movie! It's a mystery. Since when does a movie franchise go from great (Jurassic Park) to good (The Lost World) to bad (Jurassic Park III) in only eight years . . . and then fourteen years later people get stoked for the fourth one?? Do you see my confusion?
Don't get me wrong. I expect it to be decent, but I'm wondering why the general public (those who often scoff at reboots and remakes) are so gung-ho about this one! I just don't get it.
Everyone has faith in Chris Pratt after Guardians of the Galaxy, but director Colin Trevorrow is decidedly unproven. He has one feature to his credit, the 2012 independent comedy Safety Not Guaranteed, which starred one of my least favorite actresses, Aubrey Plaza. Interestingly, that movie had something to do with dinosaurs! The premise was that a journalist answers an ad on a wanted page from a crazy man seeking an assistant to travel with him back in time to see dinosaurs in a time machine he claimed to have invented. The movie got its title from the final line of the ad, "Safety Not Guaranteed."
Also, the premise of Jurassic World seems like very very familiar territory for this franchise. A new kind of dinosaur gets free in the park and attacks people. Honestly, how is this exciting to people!? I don't understand it. I'll go see it, but I don't understand it.
In any case Jurassic World is rated PG-13 for intense sequences of science-fiction violence and peril.
Big Shot Critic
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