Review of Jurassic World (2015) by Tyler J — 11 Jan 2017

Jurassic World knows exactly what it is, and it knows what you expect it to be, and it knows what you're afraid it will be. It's not trying desperately to disprove you, either. It's confident in what it's doing.

This is a family friendly film about huge dinosaurs, and it's a love letter to Jurassic Park. There's themes in it too which are easy to overlook. It's simultaneously modern while critiquing the modern.

It's filled with corporate sponsorship while mocking it. Our characters are lacking depth in this iteration but that's like, totally on purpose. The adults are comic book characters, exactly what we're afraid they would be and exactly what a kid would expect to see.

All I'm saying is, give the film a chance. It knows what you know and it knows a little bit more. P.S. The first time I watched it in a cinema the finale almost made me cry.