Twenty two years on, Jurassic Park has re-branded as Jurassic World but it is still a health and safety nightmare. Even before Chris Pratt can finish a risk assessment of the latest top secret attraction's paddock, Indominus Rex has escaped. The corporations have moved in and money is now the principal motive behind everything. Jaded and unimpressed tourists are demanding bigger, nastier, more ferocious attractions and the geneticists have been more than obliging; engineering a designer dinosaur - the very beast that's now free and killing for sport. Meanwhile, the velociraptors can be trained (but not tamed) and are drawing the interest of the military who want to weaponise them for combat zones. There are dinosaurs in the sea and dinosaurs in the air. Two children have gone off-roading and there's a female executive in charge who is too uptight to form meaningful relationships with anyone. What could possibly go wrong?
Oh, just shut up and take my money already!!!!
Yes, 'Jurassic Park' finally gets a decent sequel that manages to be something more than a mediocre cash-in. It's a blast of nostalgia, an exciting thrill ride and a whole lot of smile-on-your-face fun. It's not as well crafted as the original and it needs Spielberg's special touch to shift it into the exceptional. It struggles to replicate the awe, the showstopper set-pieces and the scares that we remember....but that's only to be expected. It does keep supplying the thrills however and definitely doesn't short change you on dinosaur action.
It's a shame that it is so sexist, it's a shame that the characters are such cardboard cutouts, it's a shame that it takes too long to get started....but strangely, those very elements all add up to give it a lot of old fashioned B-movie charm. With a little bit more care this could have been a great film. As it stands, it is just a very entertaining one. But you can't really fault a summer blockbuster for being entertaining, can you?
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