The (weak) awakening of dinosaurs

Rating: 5/10 (5 August 2015)

We can really feel the astonishment on Gray's face (Ty Simpkins) in front of the Jurassic World and it looks like an emotional flip back in time to 1993 while resounds John Williams's theme (embodied in Michael Giacchino's new soundtrack). That's atmosphere relives and it seems to us to have never left Isla Nublar.
The sign Steven Spielberg impressed on Jurassic Park twenty-two years ago lingers indelibly on who saw it and it comes back in this 4th chapter of the saga (after The Lost World and Jurassic Park III) under a new guise: A work by the debuting director Colin Trevorrow, who is clever in using that Spielbergian echoes as a mouthpiece.
Above all the ear leads us in this known-tasting journey inside a brand new fun-machine that orbits around dinosaurs. Voiced sensations (music, rustles, calls) and a good use of the 3D enthrall us, so we can discover a park in which kids can ride little herbivorous dinosaurs, holograms bewitch skeptic too and fences of great predators drag us jauntily in the Jurassic Era.
It is exactly inside the Velociraptors' cage we get familiar with the instructor Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) after we have seen the most terrible attraction: the Indominus Rex, a genetic hybrid created by InGen once ruled by John Hammond and now by Simon Marfani (Irrfan Khan), owner of a dreamy park whose direction he have committed to the beautiful Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard).
As it happened in 1993 with Jurassic Park, it's always the most dreadful creature to remember us how much we are tiny compared to the sublime Nature: at the time it was the T-Rex to create the fracture between dream and tragic events, now it's the genetic patchwork Indominus Rex to spread violence and blood. And its astute escape begins to show us all the cracks of a movie able to bring a twinkle to our eyes but actually to shrivel up like men and things under dinosaurs' brutality (too much flaunted indeed).
So the experiment Jurassic World is crushed by the mammoth weight of a creature out of control and it hesitates on building a plot which pieces are often disconnected each other and whose characters are flat and easily forgettable. So we find ourselves wandering within a story that has two young brothers as protagonists on the run from the Indominus, while their aunt Claire and the muscular Owen try to save them implementing the (ruinous) plan of warlike Hoskins (Vincent D'Onofrio) that concerns pounce on the Indominus the Raptors as an operational military test.
In the meantime the whole island has fallen in the chaos: Thousands of tourists become preys to pterodactyls escaped from their aviary and only Trevorrow's cliffhangers that quote Spielberg can pick up us out of the hustle: The shark the gigantic Masosaurus devours as per the 1975 cult movie Jaws; Gray and Zach that repair the same Jeep Wrangler John Hammond drove in Jurassic Park; The pursuit of the Raptors like that one of the T-Rex in The Lost World; at the end the T-Rex that comes to save all from the Indominus (in 1993 the Raptors did it). Homages and quotes that aid us spreading out like sails boat over Isla Nublar and conclude the dream of an impossible return in the same way everything began: With the proud roar of the T-Rex.