Jurassic World Rebirth (Now with Spoilers)

ORIGINAL SPOILER-FREE PORTION

Just got out and for a JP movie and/or this type of movie, it was pretty good. They went in somewhat of a new direction (a little more horror and adult) and completely broke away from the new trilogy (in a good way). Some homages and some "killing" of overdone concepts.

Definitely a movie, not a film. Jurassic Park is a film, and the rest are nowhere close. This may be the best JP sequel (which is more a statement of the quality of the sequels more than this movie alone). It's certainly in the tier with JP2 and Lost World. Apex JP sequences, but the movie doesn't quite add up to be bigger than the sum of its parts.

The good: This movie has legit maybe the best 3-4 sequences outside of the original other than maybe the TRex introduction in JP2. There are a handful of incredibly well done, exciting/thrilling scenes. Acting is very good, which isn't shocking considering the talent.

The bad: It's a typical movie of this type with lots of CGI, over-plotting, too many characters, etc. Also it's a JP movie so they have to shoe-horn in young kids in danger (with a group of characters with obvious plot armor). Clearly you have to just accept some shite (like cars/batteries working after sitting 15 years) and there are plot holes and characters do stupid shite. For this type of movie it's within the acceptable range, but it's there.

For a mindless/exciting summer popcorn flick, definitely recommended. This movie may be too intense for younger kids.



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Updated Spoiler Portion: So the thing about the movie that made me chuckle the most was referenced in the OG portion of the review, which was the "killing off" of old portions of the franchise. I mean they LITERALLY killed off all the dinosaurs in the regular world from the outset to make it clear it wasn't those shitty old Pratt World movies.

Then the most underrated scene with this theme was the raptor one. They movie went on and on and you forgot about the raptors, then the annoying bf went to pee and it was like "oh shite here we go" then BOOM. Raptors dead never to be referenced again. I took that as a clear sign they wanted to let everyone know the raptor thing was way overdone for 6 movies and we're going in a different direction. I felt it was cheeky but legit funny.

There were also clear homages, like the convenience store scene throwing back to the original kitchen scene. I know there were a couple others I just can't think of them now. The "omg dinosaurs" awe scene was complete cringe, though.

Also, when I referenced "too many characters" and the "ones with plot armor" I was clearly talking about the family, which I'm sure was studio influence (although Edwards does have a habit of trying to mix in too much and show the impact of "real people" on these grand, obscene scenarios, so I may be wrong). This also shoe-horned in the merchandise with the cute small dino.

HOWEVER, the original Mosasaur scene and the T-Rex scene were incredible so the family wasn't completely useless. Like I said, this movie is a bunch of popcorn movie fluff built around some incredible scenes, which is what you want out of a JP sequel/big summer popcorn movie.

I'm convinced that Mahershala Ali's character living was a reshoot after early audience screenings got upset. That was BAD. They clearly wanted to go a little darker but were pulled back.

The "omg I hate corporations too!" subplot was bad. If they were going to set that up, and SarJo was sticking around, having it develop over a couple of movies would have been better. Like in this movie she loses her friends but gets the money. Somehow that's not enough and they convince her in 2, and then she realizes it, and in 3 she turns on the dino corporation. That is a trilogy outline that works better than having her flip so easily in movie 1.


















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