The World Is Yours

If you ask me, I will claim that I was the biggest dinosaur fan that's ever lived. I used to know all the species of dinosaurs spanning from the Triassic Period to Cretaceous Period. That's all thanks to my parents' shoving me Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park during my early ages. That film remains one of my favorite movies up until now. Ergh enough with this introduction. I can't contain it. Jurassic World is unexpectedly very good. Probably you saw me bashing the trailers some eight months ago. The trailers were shit. They make the actual movie seems bad but in fact it didn't. I would totally be sold to watch the movie if it's just a montage of people staring at things and being scared with the haunting piano rendition of the theme song. This installment of the Jurassic Park franchise is now directed by Colin Trevorrow, whose film Safety Not Guaranteed is, for me, quite an unbearable experience although that's mostly because of my dislike of Aubrey Plaza. The movie stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard in the main roles, and also adding pleasant surprises like Jake Johnson, Vincent 'Kingpin' D'Onofrio, and Omar Sy from The Intouchables.

The film starts with us following the two brothers, Zach and Grey(?--yeah, they're just these two boys), whose on an independent trip to the now-very popular theme park, Jurassic World. Their aunt, Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) is working at the park trying to unveil a new addition to the park: a genetically modified hybrid dinosaur. Owen (Peter Quill), who's also working at the park as a raptor wrangler, is concerned about the fact that this hybrid species might be dangerous as an attraction.

As I've said before, I love this movie. Let's be honest, it probably won't be as iconic as the original. But they're not trying to match it. It's a very notable addition to the franchise. They treated the original material respectfully, unlike that other franchise which has killer robots from the future in it. It really feels that this movie is made with love and care from the people who admire and respect the previous films. I like the easter eggs in the film with Ian Malcolm's book, the vibrating cellphone scene, inGen squad, Spinosaur skeleton, etc. Trevorrow even politely said that the events in the two sequels before are sidelined, instead of disregarded. The music by Michael Giacchino is also one of the indicators. It evokes nostalgia while also infusing new ideas. And don't you just love Giacchino's track names? For example, "Gyrosphere of Influence" or "Nine to Survival Job". The trailers released for the film didn't do the film justice. The good story ideas from the film were mixed without care for the trailers making it nonsensical to see within two and a half minutes. The movie mixed and nurtured all the plot points really nicely. Like Chris Pratt's raptor hunt together or the fact that we need a genetically modified hybrid. It has a very light tone to the film which makes it fun and not boring despite all the science talk. It infuses the right amount of jokes also at the right place. Unlike say, Iron Man 3 which most of the jokes didn't work at all. The effects are awesome in overall, but at some parts it still felt like a bad render that only passes for Terra Nova. It is mind-boggling the fact that the effects in Jurassic Park still holds up up until today.

Indominus Rex, despite the silly-ass name (Unobtanium-level of dumb name-giving), is pretty awesome and terrifying in all the right ways. The attractions shown in Jurassic World are crazy good. The Mosasaurus is so cool, despite passable vfx. The characters are awesome. I like Chris Pratt's Owen Grady, he's cool and Chris Pratt infuses a considerable amount of persona to make that character alive--not just a tough guy. And finally Bryce Dallas Howard gets the fame she deserves. She deserved it since The Village and also after her brief role as Gwen Stacy in Spider-Man 3, although Emma Stone kinda stole Gwen Stacy away from her. I always like her in every movie, like The Help or even Terminator Salvation. Jake Johnson is also another star in the movie. Nick Miller finally finds work! And he's just so funny. He also has the best lines about Jurassic Park being way better than Jurassic World. The last battle between the dinosaurs is so good it even put last year's Godzilla to shame. Probably for the fact it is better lit. Bottom line, I like this movie more than I should. It's thrilling, it's funny, it's awesome, it's up there with Mad Max: Fury Road as one of the best movies of the summer. Jurassic World: rated 4/4

Should you choose to accept it, Rogue Nation review is coming up next.

[cue theme song]