Wow- insanely stupid characters just ruin the movie.

Rating: 4/10 (15 May 2016)

Saw this again with my 15 year old son, who was also screaming at the characters to stop acting so stupidly. The CGI is still amazing years later, and while the storyline is not terrible, the main characters' free fall decent into utterly stupid behaviors resulting in painfully predictable ramifications, just ruins the movie. Jeff Goldbloom is still great, as is his character. But his daughter, his girlfriend, and the assistant to his girlfriend are written to be unbearably annoying. The one smart character sacrifices himself to save the idiots - the saddest part of the whole film. This movie is not as bad as the recently released Jurassic world - but they share a common weakness - stupid characters that are sooooo stupid, we hope for their demise, angrily aware they will survive only because they share the politically correct views of the screenplay writers. Best scenes: 1. A Tyrannasaurus "tip toes" quietly (whenever convenient for the plot - down stairs to sneak up on a human. To return to push a camper over a cliff, etc). 2. A girl does an entire gymnastic routine before saving her father from an approaching velociraptor. 3. A whole ship of crewmen is killed by dinosaurs without damaging cabins - no explanation how. 4. An expert states that the Tyrannasaurus has incredible smelling skills and will hunt them unrelentingly, then continues to wear a shirt soaked in the tyrannasaurus' baby's blood. 5. An expedition of survivors running from Dino's on the hunt; but one guy goes way off from the group to urinate. Yaaaaa ... The insanity just doesn't end in this movie.