Dinosaur Eye Candy and not much else.

Rating: 6/10 (16 June 2015)

I won't go into my love for Jurassic Park, my hatred of Jurassic Park 2 or my brainless enjoyment of Jurassic Park 3.
Basically Jurassic World gives us a lot of dinosaur fun but seems to forget what made the original so special- character.
The fact that I saw the movie last night and the only "character" name I remember is "Blue" is very telling. Basically, you have "The Chick", "The Dude", "The Creepy Older Kid" and "The Creepy Younger Kid" as characters in the film.
The Dude and The Chick are the classic cliché of a couple that hates each other to start and ends up liking each other at the end. No surprises, and not a whole lot of interesting development there although there is still more romance in the relationship between the two than in the whole of the Twilight series.
As for the kids- man I don't know what the director was thinking with the older kid and all the creepy brooding and starting he was doing. We fail to understand why this teenager A) has a cute blond girlfriend who apparently loves him to begin with and B)if he was so sad about leaving her, why was he creeping on EVERY teenage girl that came into his eye-line? There are no character developing moments, no character at all really to be determined from the two kids, and we don't really care about them other than the fact that they do stupid things that move the "plot" along. The younger kid is apparently "special"? I don't know if it is a savant-type thing or what and it's never explained. He cries once speculating that their parents- who we don't care about- are getting divorced. The older kid has one speech on brotherly love that doesn't really make sense and by that point we could care less about either of them. Lex and Tim they are NOT.
The funniest moments in the movie are the simply honest ones: once where Control Room Geek #1 goes to kiss Control Room Geek #2 and she tells him she has a boyfriend and that she didn't talk about him because, you know, WORK.
The second honest moment comes at the end with a moment of mutual "ok, I'm too tired to get into a pissing contest with you so... peace?" between T-Rex and our favorite Raptor, Blue. Respect yo.
Gomer Pyle plays the evil "lets weaponize these animals, nothing could go wrong!" guy with about as much energy as old Vinnie looks like he can muster these days with that serious spare tire around his waist.
No, the most developed relationship in the movie is between The Dude (and I just looked it up, Pratt's character's name is Owen evidently) and the four raptors: Charlie, Echo, Delta and Blue. It's not chummy as the raptors would just as soon eat Owen as look at him, but it's a relationship built out of respect. Kind of like a trainer and a tiger I suppose. He never once forgets or does not respect how dangerous these creatures are.
So yeah, things go to pot and dinosaurs eat people, yada yada yada. Next time, find a director that can actually make his characters a little more fleshed out and these movies can always be a fun ride.