Good and Cheesy...but a little crusty around the edges...

Rating: 5/10 (12 June 2015)

Watched "Jurassic World" Last night and though it was entertaining as most Spielberg associated movies are... it was truly riddled with the errors and issues of a one-off director, just like the Godzilla Reboot was. When is Hollywood going to learn to stick with proved Directors for Major Blockbusters... quit getting your Directors on the cheap...
First, lets get into character development... or the serious lack thereof... All the main characters were so one dimensional that once the meat (pun intended) of the movie gets started (waaaaay too early in the movie for my taste), you can't really cheer for any of them except for the dinosaurs.
Most Notably horrible are the kids "Zach and Gray"... oh, why do they cast untalented kids like Ty Simpkins? Just because he got lucky in "Iron Man 3"???? Well, I think he sunk his rising star with his performance in this movie... from one scene to the next you can't tell if he is lightly autistic, suffering from Asperger's...or just a spoiled little pain in the ass... my vote is with the last choice because *possible spoiler of poor background building* how can a kid go from complaining and crying about if his parents might get a divorce, to serious inquisitive looking out the window in 10 seconds flat??? Had they just eliminated this background story and the kid and just left the older kid "Zach" and given him a plot line of saving the two girls he ogled from the ferry boat forward (btw, you never see the two girls again, so you never know what happens to them after they get in their gyrosphere, wtf?!?!) The most likable character is "Lowery"(Jake Johnson). He is the *spoiler* "Anti-Nedry", and one scene will break your heart when you are totally rooting for him, but he manages to pull it together for a humorous outcome...
*Spoiler* The person that ends up being the most hated is the one you would least suspect... Dr. Henry Wu (BD Wong)... which actually comes as a bit of a surprise that they had his character take on such a calloused persona considering he is the ONLY character brought back from the original movies, and in JP1 he was the most "naÃ¯ve" in his enthusiasm for what he was creating...
The rest of the characters are inconsequential one-dimensional plot drivers...
On to the actual plot and movie itself... when in interviews, they hinted at nods to the other movies...* spoiler*...I think they were actually saying, "We got nothing new so we're just gonna take big chunks from the first three and run with it"...because that's exactly what they did...* spoilers* There are remakes of Grant and Malcolm's flare and T-Rex, Nedry's stealing samples (except not so stealthily), entering a dilapidated building (JP2 & 3), and Dr. Sadler's famous "RUN!" line. It was nice to tip a hat to one of the original Jeeps in JP1...but there is no way in heck the kids could have gotten it started with (at least) 13 year old gas in its' tank... but now I am just getting persnickety...
Overall, its a great way to pass 2 hours of your life and not feel completely taken advantage of... The pace is slow at times (sometimes too slow), and *spoiler* throughout the chase, you will ask yourself, why they never thought to use the neurotoxin used in JP2 (Oh wait, that's right... they decided to act like JP2 & JP3 never happened)... but still if you want to stop a HUGE animal effectively and as efficiently... wouldn't that be your logical choice of weapon against it? *Last Spoiler* How the movie ended, I don't see how they can pull another sequel out of this bag... Maybe they DO bring back Dr. Ian Malcolm and Dr. Grant to... well maybe I should write my own screenplay instead of give them ideas...