Good kids movie, not so good for adults

Rating: 6/10 (17 June 2015)

Firstly I will say that this is a good movie for kids. If you have a kid definitely let them see this movie as they will be completely enRAPTORed (sorry). I can definitely see that.
As an adult you may have a different opinion. It starts like a TV movie with parents sending their kids off to the Jurrassic World errm park.One of the kids is inexplicably completely bored with the idea of seeing any dinosaurs...it's like wise up, they've only been extinct for millions of years.
The CGI looks a lot better in the dark than in the light, but this is true for any current movie.
The characters are all lacking the emotional depth and humour that made the first film so endearing. Chris Pratt is fine but basically just plays an obnoxious loudmouth with little likability. Bryce Dallas Howard's character is so under-developed - I swear her script probably ran for less than a page and all it said was 'Sigh' here and 'Gasp' there. The two boys are fine, if not a bit annoying.
What, incredibly, is something that is completely lacking is that there are no moments of tension or anticipation AT ALL. If you think about the original when the ripples in the water gave the sense of foreboding doom and how much this added to the whole atmosphere of the film it's unbelievable there's absolutely nothing like this in this film.
Some of the homages to the original are good but all in all I wasn't as impressed as I was hoping to be.