So you've opened a park with Dinosaurs in it, did you guys not see the first three movies?

Rating: 8/10 (23 October 2017)

Jurassic World
I've got to say that I really enjoyed Jurassic World. Being a huge fan of the original movie and with enough time passed to eradicate the painful memories left by Jurassic Park 3 I was really excited for this latest installment. With a promising cast and after an exciting trailer I sat on the edge of my cinema seat in anticipation. An attempt is made to try and recapture some of the original movies magic. JW manages a little but ultimately cannot live up to the greatness of Spielberg's classic. There's the rousing theme tune accompanied by an altogether equally uplifting new score by Michael Giacchino (John Williams was too busy doing the Force Awakens to return for this one) and there's some supremely polished CGI.
If you aren't familiar with the plot on this one here goes. In JW a fully operational theme park is now up and running and has been successful for quite some years now. After the events in the first three movies you would have thought someone would have realised that this isn't such a good idea. However public interest is beginning to dwindle as your average Joe Bloggs is getting bored with regular old dinosaurs. So the science boffins are asked to come up with a new dinosaur. Something bigger, scarier, cooler and with more teeth. This is where this movie starts to fall down. I'm sorry but I may visit the zoo once in a while but never once have I been bored by seeing a lion or giraffe. There on the TV all the time too but never have they been boring. So Im sure a real live dinosaur would blow my socks off. Anyway a new dino is cooked up in the lab. Indominus Rex. An hybrid creature with a set of uncanny abilities and some nasty big teeth. As you've guessed it. The beast escapes, tourists get eaten and we have our new Jurassic Park movie.
As entertaining as all this is the movie stumbles because of its own dumbness. If only the script writers would have taken a bit more care over proceedings and we would have had an even better movie. An example being is when the containment team are sent in to retrieve the escaped creature. They merely turn up in a couple of jeeps with a cattle prod and a net! How were they planning on getting the gargantuan monster back to it's pen? I say monster because as Chris Pratt's character says "she's no dinosaur!" So because the containment team are a group of stupid individuals they all get eaten. The films big finale is super entertaining but equally as dumb. Our heroes are in peril and about to get devoured by one big dinosaur so their genius plan to help save them is to let out another big dinosaur. Oh dear now you're surrounded by two big dinosaurs! I'm Knit picking here guys because despite the films silliness I thoroughly enjoyed every moment.
Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard were great together. Vincent D'Onofrio was a great villainous character, even if his motive to weaponise Velociraptors was another one of the movies stupid ideas. Irrfan Kahn's character was likable and had integrity but he couldn't fly an helicopter for toffee! Direction and cinematography was good. CGI as you'd expect is second to none. If you're watching on Blu-ray the HD transfer and sound quality is superb. An excellent tester disc for any surround sound system. I gave JW 8/10. Now that's a high score for a dumb movie but sometimes the simple "take your brain out" movies are the best. Relax, dumb down and enjoy. Oh and if something chases you...Run!!!