Formulaic money making product.

Rating: 5/10 (14 June 2015)

In Jurassic World flat characters predictably run from a ridiculous reptile while the film pretends to be self aware... brought to you by Mercedes Benz, Coca-Cola, Beats, Samsung and many more great companies. Let's start by admitting that none of the Jurassic Park movies were ever more than just big summer blockbusters, Jurassic Park wasn't a flawless movie and it doesn't contribute much artistically. That being said I still thoroughly enjoy the original and think it's very well put together. Jurassic World on the other hand is a bit of a jumbled up confused mess with hints of fun.
SPOILERS
As the movie starts we are introduced to the two kids we will follow throughout the film: excited young boy and moody teenager who likes girls. While we are on the subject of characters, every single one is terrible. Bryce Dallas Howard plays woman whose job is important, Judy Greer and Andy Buckley play parents who are getting a divorce and despite everyone's praises for Chris Pratt he simply plays cool guy.
Once arriving on the island the movie pretends to give characterization but in reality just shows the characters as flatter than pancakes by showing them act in one exact way, never changing. This is when the movie gets unbearably cheesy by making fun of its self in its advertising and that dinosaurs apparently aren't enough anymore but is so shameless that it doesn't try to fix the issues. Chris Pratt saves someone and talks back to a corporate boss to emphasize that he's really cool and we discover he is the alpha of a group of velociraptors, because he feeds them? Never mind that now the genetically modified lizard turns out to have superpowers and has escaped it's enclosure.
Plot conveniences are not sprinkled throughout, Trevorrow just grabbed a bag of them and called it a movie. "We need to get out of here but this car is busted." "Remember when we fixed up grandpa's truck?" Genius writing. Someone wants to weaponize the creature and then he dies in what would be ironic if it wasn't already so obvious.Some more stuff happened with terrible camera-work and CGI that is over stylized leading up to the grand finale that was practically announced at the start of the picture.
The spectacle is gone and cramming more things onto the screen doesn't make a movie better. The simpleness of the original is why it still holds up today. Movies need to be grounded in a bit of reality or they fall apart and become less grandjeur and more of just a bore. The movie has such an overwhelming anti corporate mantra but it spits into the wind as people line up and give the film, scratch that, Samsung, hundreds of millions. I didn't laugh, I didn't cry, I yawned but wasn't terribly disappointed overall. 58/100