Once Again, Girls Ruin Everything!

Rating: 8/10 (29 July 2015)

We've all seen it before, the teenage boy who only cares about hot girls and nothing else. In this case, his name is Zach (Nick Robinson, The Kings of Summer), and the "nothing else" is his little brother Gray (Ty Simpkins, Iron Man 3).
Zach is very interested in girls, he apparently has a girlfriend as he says goodbye to her in the beginning of the movie. However he pretty much spends half of his time at the park eyeing girls, so.. maybe she's just a good friend? He seems to be embarrassed of his brother, often telling him to grow up when he gets excited at the park. Yeah, how dare he get excited about something other than girls, HOW DARE HE?
Ahem... anyways, Gray is obsessed with dinosaurs, and his room is totally decorated to match. He even has a View-Finder with a dinosaur slide in it, I'm not sure why that felt that had to be included, but whatever. One must wonder for a boy who is so obsessed with dinosaurs, why on earth he hasn't been there yet. They didn't mention any reason why, no money issues or anything, and the park has been open since 2005! But I'm sure they had their reasons.
Their parents send the brothers off by themselves to meet up with their aunt who is a big wig at the park. But of course, she is too busy to watch the boys as she places her assistant in charge. The boys grow tired of this lady who is constantly on her phone and run off by themselves.
One of my most favorite parts of this movie is when the boys are watching the sea attraction and they get splashed. Zach had his cell phone out at the time and I was sure he was going to be super mad, but he wasn't. He and Gray both laughed, and it was great because their reactions felt so genuine, I guess that means they're good actors!
A little later on, the boys are enjoying a leisurely ride when all of the sudden Gray drops a bombshell "Our parents are getting a divorce". Yikes, I imagine that would be pretty terrible to have to discuss.. if it went anywhere. They literally don't mention it again, not once, they escape the dinosaurs, reunite with their parents, hug, and then the credits role.
What was the point? Trick question, there was none, it was completely pointless. It didn't make them closer, all it did was make their relationship even more awkward. Why do movies do this, why do they start story lines and then go nowhere with them, it's really quite annoying.
The test tube dinosaur escapes and starts causing havoc across the park. It's explained that this dinosaur is dangerous because it has no brothers or sisters to teach it anything, in other words, it's a living breathing killing machine.
While the boys are in their glass bubble driving around the park, the super dinosaur finds them and tries to make them her lunch. Fortunately they manage to escape and jump off a waterfall to safety. They survive the fall and get to shore, they both smile at each other and breathe a sigh of relief. Zach drags Gray over and hugs him which I have to admit, was probably the best scene in the entire movie (HEY... don't judge.)
So the boys find a jeep and make their way back to the park entrance, they meet up with their aunt, fight off some flying dinosaurs, and their aunts assistance gets eaten. Once again someone being eaten seems like it should be a tragic event, but no one mentions it so I guess not.
The super dinosaur finds its way to the park entrance and they release the T-Rex. It forces the super dinosaur next to the water where the underwater dinosaur grabs and drowns it. The boys finally reunite with their parents and the movie ends with the T-Rex roaming free.
Overall I enjoyed the movie, I like that the romance stuff was kept to a minimum and the action stuff was turned up full blast. Not a fan of the sponsored rides titles (Samsung Innovation Center), even though they poked fun at it (sponsors naming dinosaurs), they still did it, and that's all that matters.
In conclusion.. Ty Simpkins is a natural actor, he looked as through he was having an amazing time filming this and you definitely could tell through his acting. Whenever he was reaching for his brother in the film I felt that he was genuinely frightened. I look forward to seeing Ty in future films, and hopefully one of them will be a Jurassic World sequel.