I love Ron Howard’s actress daughter Bryce Dallas Howard so much that in 2002 I spent ten minutes outside waiting after her sparkling performance in Alan Ackroyd’s House and Garden, at the Manhattan Theatre Club do get her autograph I didn’t get it but its the thought though that counts. In Colin Trevorrow’s reboot of Steven Spielberg’s dino meets disney “Jurassic World”, Bryce portrays a number crunching park’s operations manager Claire who loses track of her nephews (Ty Simkins and Nick Robinson) through rank indifference while a newly spliced all thinking super dinosaur Indominus Rex has escaped and is… killing for sport. Enter Chris Pratt as some trainer of dinoers, this year’s Bruce Willis (actually, last years…) and off we go, the pair chasing Indominus chasing the boys.
It all ends up with the two Rex’s going toe to toe before the alpha and beta go toe to toe. And who is gonna complain. Already one of the biggest movies of the year, complaining about “Jurassic World” for being a light fare popcorn movie is like complaining about the Iphone 6 being just another hand held computer. Sure, it is just a hand held computer but that’s what it is, sure nothing much matters in “Jurassic World” but it is exactly what it is and why shouldn’t it be?
Grade: B
I agree that it is a popcorn movie, although I didn’t eat any! But it is an entertaining (and super exhausting too) movie with a brain… There’s a lot of science (the genetically modified dinosaurs which become the super predators, so true!) and it is also a reflection on how we treat animals and nature. Do you think it was a serious attack of the Sea World-type parks? I wish orcas could eat more people sometimes…
i’ve just watched the original, and forgotten how much Arianna Richards’ continual screaming got on my wick.
I’d also forgotten that Samuel L. Jackson was in it.