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<\/a> Jurassic World<\/strong> brought us the more dinosaurs, more action, and more Chris Pratt than ever before, not to mention selling more tickets than anything that came before. It was everything you could want in a summer blockbuster…or was it?<\/em><\/p>\nCast:<\/strong> Chris Pratt…Owen \/ Bryce Dallas Howard…Claire \/ Irrfan Khan…Masrani \/ Vincent D’Onofrio…Hoskins \/ Ty Simpkins…Gray \/ Nick Robinson…Zach \/ Jake Johnson…Lowery \/ Omar Sy…Barry \/ BD Wong…Dr. Henry Wu \/ Judy Greer…Karen<\/p>\n I enjoyed the dino-heck out of Jurassic World<\/strong>, just like millions of other viewer that plunked down dollars and yen (Jurassic World<\/strong> was one of the five US movies allowed to screen in China this year), and as summer blockbusters go, it was a slam dunk. Not as much fun as Guardians of the Galaxy<\/strong>, but with wider appeal. Not as smart as Jurassic Park<\/strong>, but with bigger dinosaurs.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The telling fact for me in how the movie stacks up, is that it made me want to see Jurassic Park<\/strong> again, and I strongly doubt that I\u2019ll ever have the same feelings for this movie. The original movie was good on a lot of levels that this movie didn\u2019t touch. Sure, it get\u2019s the basics down.<\/p>\n As Chris Pratt\u2019s Owen points out to Bryce Dallas Howard\u2019s Claire, animals need to do three things to survive.<\/p>\n \u201cOWEN: These animals are thinking: I gotta eat. I gotta hunt. I gotta\u2026You gotta be able to relate to at least one of those things.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n He might as well be talking about the movie.<\/p>\n Jurassic World<\/strong> succeeds on all the animal levels, but nothing much above that. Actually, Pratt is selling his raptor friends short, because they\u2019re social animals, and like us, they need more than the basics, which comes out at the end of the film.<\/p>\n Pratt\u2019s character certainly breaks no new ground. As the obligatory kids point out, he\u2019s a bad ass, though we know he\u2019s a reformed new-age sort of bad ass who wouldn\u2019t use his killer dinosaurs as weapons. This does make us scratch our heads a bit. They\u2019re not dolphins, Chris, they\u2019re killer beasts on a very loose leash, and in the end it\u2019s only their use as weapons that give him them a fighting chance.<\/p>\n Bryce Dallas Howard\u2019s character Claire breaks more new ground, though not all of it good. She\u2019s the poster girl for failed work life balance, which is a slam on working women, but she does manage to both run in high heels, and save the day by going to get the T-Rex in search of \u201cmore teeth.\u201d At the end, she lets us down as she totters off submissively with her hunk hero, but that\u2019s only because she\u2019s had a rough day. She\u2019ll be back in form after she catches her breath, I have no doubt.<\/p>\n The dinos are again the stars of the film, as they should be, but they only really reach us when the Apatosaurus dies in our star’s arms, evoking all the pathos of a big puppy. I teared up too. The others were largely more of the same, though you really didn\u2019t get the same feeling of cunning out of the velociraptors as you did in the original movie. Come to think of it, you didn\u2019t get the same feeling of cunning out of the kids either.<\/p>\n My real regret is that they didn’t splice a little stegosaurus into Indominus Rex. With the added back plates, he would have been a dead ringer for Bob Eggleton’s favorite movie monster (we’re fans too, Bob).<\/p>\n Sadly, twenty two years on, we\u2019ve learned more about making dinosaurs come to live, but it seems like we\u2019ve forgotten why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jurassic World brought us the more dinosaurs, more action, and more Chris Pratt than ever before, not to mention selling more tickets than anything that came before. It was everything you could want in a summer blockbuster…or was it? 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