Plot - facile rubbish: Effects - quite good.

Rating: 4/10 (19 June 2015)

I received the tickets for nothing - and they were worth every penny.
After watching a film, do you ever get the feeling "I could have written something better than that."? Well, here's an opportunity to easily write something better. "Predictable", and "trope" hardly do justice to the production-line effort to make money.
The film starts with a couple sending off their two sons to Jurassic World. Pointlessly, it transpires they are in the throes of a divorce. Is the unfolding adventure going to bring them together? We never find out - so why include it? At one point, thousands of pterodactyls escape - as the film ends, they are all still out there somewhere unless they are homing pterodactyls.
Bryce Dallas Howard starts off as the killer business Exec, with in minutes she realises the futility of this and reverts to the weak female and from then on sets back all progress in gender-equality and obviously wants to be a housewife and have lots of babies with the Pratt character.
Pratt's character, the dinosaur trainer (yes, I know... a dinosaur trainer) is the clean-cut hero you've seen millions of times: you know he's immortal and will have a few good lines... he has two in 124 minutes.
The basis of the story revolves around the "trainability" of Velociraptors and the idea that they can communicate and plan better than the average human. OK, this comes from the "Jurassic Park" - but Velociraptors having a conversation with an overgrown T-Rex...? Yeah, I agree, it's OK for kids... but not if you're over 10.
There is the standard mad scientist, the standard megalomaniac and deluded villain (just like Jurassic Park) I suppose they are there to use up the discarded words from earlier Jurassic scripts.
Why 4/10? The dinosaurs are good. 40% more dinosaurs would have made me give it 5/10.