Well I liked the park

Rating: 5/10 (14 June 2015)

Jurassic World Review
Before I start off this review, I feel it must be made clear that I went into this movie thinking that it was going to be terrible. I thought its very existence was an insult to the original great movie which showed why not to mess with DNA. What I got out of this movie was mixed feelings and confusion. I shall try to keep this review as spoiler-free as possible, but I can't make any promises. If you don't want spoilers, you should probably stop reading this right now.
I will start with what I liked about the movie. The park was amazing. It came across as Hammond's dream come true. Once I saw the dinosaur petting zoo and the triceratops rides I wanted to go there immediately. I was absolutely enthralled on seeing this park operate and all the rides it had.
The homages to the original movie gave a sense of nostalgia. They had some scenes reenacted from the first movie, but my favorite parts were when they went to the original sets from the first movie. Finding the night vision goggles, the jeeps and such made me giddy in my seat.
Larry is the best character in this movie. That's all I can really say about him. He's funny, he's smart, he has plastic dinosaurs on his work desk (think Wash from Firefly) and he's probably the only sane person in the entire park.
Now we shall look on the things I didn't like from the movie. The dinosaurs in the movie didn't act like dinosaurs. While Steven Spielberg in the first movie knew he was making a monster movie, he went out of his way to make the dinosaurs act like animals to the point of bringing in a paleontologist on set to give advice. The velociraptors and the indominus rex in particular acted so unrealistically that it took me out of the movie.
The velociraptor training was an absolutely stupid idea. They've built up so much in all 4 movies how dangerous velociraptors are that I could never take the idea seriously. Granted, they did show wisdom by having the training done outside of the cage rather than inside like I originally thought. The reason WHY they're training the raptors was the also amazingly stupid, which I will not reveal in this review for spoiler reasons. However, the most disappointing part of the velociraptor training was that eventually it amounted to nothing. It was built up from the trailers and the end results were very boring.
Finally, we have the indominus rexÂ…oh boy do I have a few words on this guy. The indominus rex is actually the sole reason I was thinking of not going to see Jurassic World. I feel that if Michael Crichton were alive, he would smack the screen writers upside the heads and say "NO!" It is revealed very early that the people who made Jurassic World were very aware of what happened in the first park. Indeed, they even have Dr. Wu, the chief scientist from the original park on their staff. Because people have short attention spans, the investors of the park wanted something "cool" to wow the audience of the park, since dinosaurs are not interesting enough on their own. So the indominus rex is cooked up; a genetic hybrid of T rex, raptor, cuttlefish (yes cuttlefish), and other lovely creatures that makes it bigger, badder, and more vicious than the other dinosaurs. Since the chief killers in any previous events with Jurassic Park are velociraptors and T rexes, it is only natural to combine their combined lethality together. Every scene with the indominus rex just annoyed me, it felt so forced and out of place to make this park fail when it didn't have to. I seriously would have enjoyed this movie more if the dinosaurs DIDN'T get out. I enjoyed the first half of the movie far more than the second half. The park itself is creative and inventive and makes up for the lackluster plot and unspectacular effects.