I had heard good comments about this movie, but honestly it was disappointing, it only had a couple of good scenes and they both were about the dinosaurs, not about the people. I didn’t like the characters much, or the story. It starts with two brothers, a child and a teenager, boarding a plane alone and than taking a boat to reach the island where their aunt works, to visit the famous Jurassic World because the child is obsessed with dinosaurs and knows everything about them. All children that age I’ve ever known or seen only knew about games, but somehow on tv they are always experts on something.
Their aunt Claire of course has no time for them because she’s a superbusinesswoman who runs the entire island, so she has a girl show them around, not thinking twice about her when she’ll end up eaten.
The old nice dinosaurs are all under control, after years of dealing with them, but since they are not news anymore the park is becoming less interesting apparently, there are even children riding and feeding the dinosaurs, it’s basically a zoo now, so they created a new one, genetically modified, called the Indominus Rex… yeah. Owen has the decency to laugh and they say it’s a nice easy name for children..
Owen (Chris Pratt) is training the raptors, and Hoskins (Vincent D’Onofrio) wants to use them as weapons… *rollingeyes*
When a young man working there falls off a boardwalk, he’s not even slightly injured, but he landed in raptor territory so Owen goes there to stall them like a modern Dundee.
They all have modern phones, so it’s a modern setting, and yet Claire wears something that nobody would dare take out of their 80s closet.
Claire and Owen had one date but it ended there because they’re too different; she tells him that he smells, and she walks around the park in heels..
Finally we get to the Indomitus Rex area: we don’t see it but scratches on the wall (only 12 meters high? against a dinosaur? a big, genetically modified one??) make them think that he escape so they enter the area because their scanner see no thermal signature… and yet it’s still here and comes out so they freak out. Owen maybe saw Predator because he pour petrol on him (I think, right?) and stays still so it won’t notice him. The fat guy can’t run and can’t think so he opens the gate to go out and the Indomitus goes out too.
Ignoring everything that’s happening, Claire’s assistant is always on the phone so the two kids run away leaving her behind, because there are no obedient kids on movie-world.
They look for the Indomitus and find that he tore the locator from his back (but where did they put it?? somewhere where he could reach?? Had they never had a pet?? And they are the experts..)
Claire sends a team to find it, but with no serious weapons, just electrified sticks and ropes, because they want him alive after all that work and money… I’m not an expert like them, but it sounds to me like catching a tiger with a piece of cheese in one hand while chanting ‘come kitty kitty’.
Finally Claire recalls that she has two nephews in the park :-/
Owen speaks to my heart when he confronts her on her ridiculous shoes, and yet she makes it to the second movie, that’s just luck :-/
Hoskins gets his way when they can’t find the Indominus; they even sent soldiers with machine guns on a helicopter, and yet they missed it, and then are killed by flying dinosaurs, that keep going on and feast on visitors,
so he suggests sending the raptors after it. They follow the raptors and we come to one good scene that I liked, when the raptors find it but do not attack it, instead they seem to chat and then the raptors turn towards the humans. This was the big surprise, the Indomitus is part Raptor! Yes, they created a part Raptor/part T-Rex dinosaur! Good job!
There is more running, escaping, saving the children, a few here and there get eaten, but not our couple and the kids or it wouldn’t be a happy ending, and at the end the raptors choose Owen against the Indomitus and fight it, and they get killed: the moral here is that human heroes are more lucky than anything else and everybody and everything should be careful in giving them their friendship or they’ll end up dying for them.
At this point Claire frees the T-Rex and runs towards them, on heels of course, and we get to the big battle, the strong point of this movie, which sees the Indomitus against the T-Rex and the one surviving Raptor, with a little help from the dino-whale. When the battle is over, the ‘good dinosaurs’ just go on their own way, just like that, and it’s all well and good again, and next morning the kids parents are already there… and after such a scare I guess mom and dad won’t divorce anymore so = happy ending! *rollingeyes*
Honestly, I didn’t like it, it had only a couple of scenes where the dinos were entertaining, but the story and the characters… not just Claire on her heels, but also the child who must have eaten a whole encyclopedia! And the scene when they find an old Jurassic Park Jeep and the kids are able to repair it and drive it… come on, someone should have asked them to look after the grown-ups, they would have done a better job :-/
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