Ashlyn Allender

I was really let down by this. I have watched and rewatched all of the Jurassic Park movies and the following Jurassic worlds. I also watched the Camp Cretaceous and Chaos theory tv series sequels/ spin offs of the Jurassic movies. (Which was honestly better than this and the last one by FAR). I have been a fan of this franchise for as long as I can remember. This movie felt like there was no script at all or that it was put through chat gbt with a print to reuse prior movies. The literal only good thing I have to say about it is visuals were good but the whole plot and characters were superficial. They make a very poor attempt to make the characters seem like they have a backstory by straight up having them tell us about it and never really imply it in a meaningful way again. I can’t tell if these actors did their best with this less than optimal script or they just didn’t try that hard. I think it’s more they did the best with what they had and scenes where they maybe did better fleshing out the character got scrapped. They had the random family that had no reason to be included (and frankly all should have died very quickly) and the stakes felt so forced and fake. There was no tension except for the raft scene. Aside from that one scene they made it super obvious the main characters were not at risk in any way. They kept having the people make the dumbest most illogical decisions repeatedly. A man is implied to break his leg and then proceed to walk on it no problem like 30 minutes later while hiking for HOURS on unsteady terrain. Like what? If you are going to include a possible injury STICK TO IT. Just issue after issue after issue. If you want to just watch it for the dinosaurs you will get plenty of that but any desire for plot or decent characters keep your expectations low. Also they hyped up one of the creatures and it only gets 1-2 minutes of screen time, it is completely unable to feel threatening and the scenes it’s in are just unable to be interesting or intense or catch really any of the characters. It was hyped up for it to do nothing. And the other dinosaurs? Just disappeared conveniently never to be seen again. Some people explain it better than I did in the other ratings and have other great points. The things I brought up were the things that stood out the most to me and my friend when we went to go see it. We need to start expecting movies to actually be more than nostalgia rippoffs. Everyone says what can you expect as if we shouldn’t have higher standards. No one likes the remakes, it’s lazy and always done poorly, just look at what happened to LILO and Stich. We need to stop giving them money for beating a very dead horse. They need to take more risks. This movie had potential but they didn’t take any risks, they stuck with a formula that they didn’t even follow properly. We need to raise the standard by speaking with our money.

Not my cup of tea. It is labeled as a comedy but I didn’t really find anything in it funny. It was okay in the beginning but after about the midpoint it felt like it just sort of fell apart. It was trying to fit way too much into it all at once and so many of the characters just felt flat. I don’t think that was the actors fault, I think that must be the script. I know it has become common that that directors and scriptwriters don’t take much feedback from actors anymore in movie making. The visuals and premise were good it just wasn’t really a stand out movie. It could just be me that thinks this way but I figured I’d share my thoughts in case others have a similar opinion.

It was not great. The plot was weird, the digital effects looked weird. Not very entertaining.