Yesterday was the last date night we’ll
celebrate in Charlton and it almost didn’t happen. My wife spent the whole day packing,
again, and had to be coaxed to accompany me. I had to respect the level of exhaustion
because yesterday she was packing her vast shoe empire which made a real dent
in our supply of boxes. She sheepishly tried to explain why the living room
full of empty boxes was so drastically reduced. All I had to do though was
glance in her closet and see the denuded shoe racks to understand her plight.
She also claimed to dislike dinosaur
movies which ran counter to my plans on seeing the latest summer blockbuster,
Jurassic World. I eventually cajoled her into attending and she ended up loving
the movie although some of it was viewed betwixt fingers. My left arm will
eventually recover from the impaling it took from her finger nails.
I liked, but did not love the movie.
It was a workmanlike effort with all the expected thrills and shocks but this
is territory already well covered by the preceding films. Chris Pratt and Bryce
Dallas Howard are very good in the lead roles but the signature endangered kid
roles were glossed over. CGI dinosaurs have reached the point where they no longer
have the same wonder as the first films generated which means the story needs
to make up the lack of compellable factor which isn’t really there.
The plot involves a rejuvenation of
the park from the earlier films, including some of the old sets (Easter eggs
galore). Pratt plays the plucky adventurer with a flock of semi-trained
raptors. There’s a needless evil industrial-military game going on behind the
scenes which is exposed when the latest creation – a specially “designed” dinosaur
escapes and wreaks havoc on humans and dinosaurs alike. The film tried to incorporate
themes and plot lines from all three preceding films and this detracted. All
this being said, it was a great little thrill ride, well deserving of summer
popcorn status but it definitely does not soar.
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