Mindless popcorn action fun!

Rating: 8/10 (16 July 2015)

The first film appeals to both the 12 year old in me that loves dinosaurs and the more refined part of my psyche that loves well made films that have character, suspense, and amazing technical features and pioneering special effects. "Jurassic World" doesn't compare to the first one but it's better than the last two and, at its core, it's still a lot of fun.
The human characters aren't written the best and come off so flat that it was really hard to get completely invested in them but the popcorn spectacle the film throws at you non-stop is really what makes this film fun to watch. The film doesn't venture very deep into too many of the themes the first one had but what it lacks in this department it makes up in decent gags, set design that felt like a real, working park and some killer dino-on-dino death matches. Plus, it doesn't hurt having the awesome Chris Pratt in it and it really doesn't hurt that he has his own raptor pack.
Overall, the film is just mindless fun and it works for what it is. It would have been nice to see some more practical effects mixed with the CGI like the original film did back in 1993 but we live in a world of filmmaking where computers are the default setting. The complaints are minor and they never really stopped me from enjoying the film because, at the heart of it all, Chris Pratt has domesticated raptors and that realistically could have been the entire film and I would have been totally cool with that.