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Claws and Effect: Jurassic World review
Jurassic World
Directed by: Colin Trevorrow
Stars: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Vincent D’Onofrio
Fourteen years is a long time between sequels and it can be fatal for franchises. However, Mad Max: Fury Road proved that you can get re-energised again. However, Jurassic Park is a monster of a different colour. Its three progenitors got progressively less interesting and suffered from a law of diminishing returns so expectations have been high as to how they could reboot Spielberg’s prehistoric moneyspinner for 2015. Jurassic World almost manages to pull it off. We are introduced to a new cast that includes former soldier Owen (Chris (Guardians of The Galaxy) Pratt), tour guide Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard (The Help, Lady in the Water)) and Hoskins (Vincent D’Onofrio, seen most recently as The Kingpin in Netflix’s Daredevil series. Jurassic Park is now Jurassic World, a giant theme park on Isla Nubla that is slicker and more corporate than anything John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) could have imagined. But the attraction’s owners have been messing around with dinosaur DNA, splicing genes from raptors and other dinosaurs to create what they hope will get the bums on seats in an era where visitors demand more and more. Of course, this new creation backfires horribly, throwing the park into shutdown. Claire has to keep her nephews Gray and Zach safe while a deadly dinosaur is roaming around, killing the other creatures on the island. The end is foreshadowed when we see Owen interacting with a group of four raptors, who play a major role at the end of the film. Jurassic World is exciting and the 3D does actually add a little bit of extra impact to the visuals. Pratt is likeable as always and there are a couple of scenes which do make you jump. It’s actually a pretty dark film although so was the first one if you sit and watch it. However, you can’t help feeling that you’ve seen all of this before and the inherent problem with dinosaur disaster movies is trying to find a new take on what is such a well-trodden Hollywood path. But they have done enough to inject new life into the franchise and so it seems pretty likely that we won’t have to wait another fourteen years. Kids will enjoy it and adults will find something to hold their attention…
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