Jurassic World: A Fun Popcorn movie. That's all I needed.

Jurassic World was exactly what it needed to be. Fun. But that by no means makes it great or even good movie. It was completely OK. The effects looked OK, the acting was blah, and the plot was blah. But its a dinosaur disaster movie that felt like the original Jurassic Park movie. I had a great time watching this film. I loved the nostalgia and the dinosaur action scenes.

I want to talk about some of the controversial elements of this movie. First off is the "trained raptors". I thought this whole thing worked. The Raptors were not trained. They were working with Owen (Chris Pratt). Owen raised them from young and established himself as the Alpha of the pack. I thought of these like wolves. Wolves are pack hunters and have an alpha that can be challenged and replaced. The Raptors behave in similar ways. They established that raptors are intelligent in the previous movies and this takes it to the next level. It brings a human into a pack of dangerous animals. The turns all work when the raptors switch sides temporarily, but they still respect Owen in the end. The film does a great job of being about respect and not training like a dog. They treat these animals as intelligent beings.

The Indominous Rex: This dino was cool, and I totally bought that a corporation would use genetic manipulation to create an attraction that is bigger, badder, and meaner than anything before. However, my problem with this dino is she kept having more and more abilities. 1. She could mask her body heat. 2. She could camouflage. 3. She could communicate with the Raptors. 4. She knew where her tracker was. The Rex was used as a plot tool. Whenever the writing needed an escape they gave the Rex a new ability. It just got a little too wacky. It would have been better if it was just bigger faster and smarter than a T-Rex. But all the other stuff was needed work out of plot dead ends.


Like I said I like a lot of things and didn't like others, so here is a list of things because I don't want to get into detail.

Things I Liked:
-Every dino fight, especially the T-Rex Indominous Rex fight at the end.
-The shot of all the dino's dead after being killed for sport by the ID Rex.
-The giant sea dino
-The scene where the pterodactyls attacked the park guests.
-The death of the babysitter
-the throwbacks to the original movie

Things I hated
-Some of the effects
-The older brother who just creepily stared at girls the whole time.
-some of the plot
-All the product placement
-The terrible romance between Owen and Claire

I had a great time at this movie and it was awesome on IMAX but it is not a fantastic movie but not a bad one either. I give it a 3/5.