May not be perfect, but it's still amazing!

Rating: 9/10 (13 June 2015)

Jurassic World is about a newer version of Jurassic Park. Jurassic World has been opened for ten years and desperate to see the park numbers spike again, the park has created a new dinosaur: the Indominus Rex.
The movie follows several human characters: Owen, who has been hired to train velociraptors; Claire, the vice president in charge of the business side of things; Grey, an autistic child who is extremely excited to see the dinosaurs; and Zach, Grey's older brother who seems to not really care much about Grey or the Dinosaurs.
Now I've heard a lot of the term 'one-dimensional' tossed around a lot in the reviews I've read. However, I'm assuming they either didn't pick up on it or they don't know what the term means. A one-dimensional character is a character who lacks depth and doesn't grow or learn throughout a story. While I will agree there wasn't a lot of depth to them, several did grow as characters.
I believe the character who lacks the most depth and doesn't learn out of our protagonists is Owen. He doesn't seem to learn anything new or grow as a character at the end. That being said, I still liked the character. He seemed to be the only reasonable adult character at the beginning of the movie.
At the beginning of the movie Claire sees the dinosaurs as assets and the park's guests as numbers. However you see that start to change when we see the Apatosaurus's have been attacked and are dying. She is finally understanding that the park's dinosaurs are more than an attraction and can suffer.
Grey does have plenty of depth however. He is shown to be autistic without directly pointing it out. He is incredibly smart when it comes to numbers and information and is very interested in the Dinosaurs.
Zach starts out as a stereotypical teenage boy with little interest in anything except for girls. He even dismisses his brother quite a lot at the beginning of the movie. However, he does show his brother sympathy when his brother becomes upset about their parents divorcing. Then later, he becomes closer to his brother as they do their best to survive and get to safety after their gyrosphere misadventure.
As for the villains, yes, they were pretty one-dimensional. But a lot of villains are written that way. That doesn't make up for that fact that Hoskins was just a badly written character with a one-track mind. He didn't even show concern when the raptors turned on his men. He still thought it was a good idea to use these wild dinosaurs as weapons.
Now, onto the dinosaurs.
I'll start with the raptors since we seem to see them on screen the most. Now, if they hadn't explained how they were trained then I'd call it completely unrealistic. I would use the term 'trained' for them loosely, which is the same way I'd use it for a tiger at a circus. Were they attempting to train them? Yes, however wild animals are unpredictable and can't be completely tamed.
As for the nod that I've seen mentioned constantly I will agree; yes, it does seem silly. But at the same time the raptors are shown throughout the movie to be intelligent. So perhaps it is just the raptor mimicking what it has seen people do. That said, I think it would have been best to leave it out.
The Indominus Rex was a unique creature for sure. She did have a bit of a sad background with how she was raised in isolation. There was one thing that kind of bugged me though (not much though).
Apparently she ate her sibling but not the raptors. Why would she communicate with them but not her sibling? Well, my best guess is that she saw her sibling as a challenge for dominance while the raptors were much smaller and didn't pose as much of a threat to her. I wish it had been addressed in the movie however.
Now for my favorite dinosaur in the movie. The mighty T-rex. I loved that they seemed to consider the events in the first movie for her appearance in this one. Twenty-two years after the first movie and it has shown just how old she has gotten. She's not in her prime anymore and they did a good job at showing her age.
Not only did they show that time has in fact passed for her, but she also has the scars from her encounter with the raptors in the first movie. She might not be as powerful as she once was but she can still kick ass.
There was so much detail in this movie that pointed back to the first one that it blew me away. They didn't just mention it. They showed it.
Including the age and scars on the mighty T-rex, we saw the old welcome center, the mural with the raptors on it where the kids from the first movie saw the shadows of the raptors, the original banner from the welcome center, and they even had the Jurassic Park 29 jeep that had been John Hammond's in the first movie. They didn't just refer to Jurassic Park; they made it part of the new Jurassic World. They showed us a glimpse back to the original movie without remaking it.
The dialogue in the movie could have been better at times. Especially with the movie having four writers credited for the screenplay. There wasn't any line that you'd walk out of the movie remembering. Unlike the first movie which had several.
As a big fan of the original movie, this movie was what I was hoping it would be. It brought me back to Jurassic Park, yet at the same time brought me a new story with a couple of familiar faces.