Vampire Owl: Are you sure that the dinosaurs haven’t ever allied with werewolves and were not the enemies of the Old Vampire World?
Vampire Bat: Yes. It says right here in the Grand Vampire History and Encyclopedia. Dinosaurs were a neutral group of creatures who preceded the Draconian Reptile Order, but has no direct relation with any of the magical species of the present world.
Vampire Owl: Lets watch the movie then.
[Gets the tickets].
✠ This was recently posted by me at Kiagia.com where I handle the Hollywood movie reviews division: http://www.kiagia.com/index.php/current-film-releases-movie/867-jurassic-world-movie-review.html
A long time has passed since our last adventures in a park of dinosaurs. It took the makers quite a long time after that 1993 movie which had a big place in our childhood and also spawned two sequels which made a much lesser impact even when taken together. The aim for this third sequel seems to be simple – as they understand that sequels and remakes are doing wonderful work these days at the box-office. It is not easy to match up to a movie which had become the highest grossing movie, breaking all records, until Titanic came up to claim the status of the highest grosser of all time – but Jurassic World was going to give it a try.
A new dinosaur theme park is open with live dinosaurs, twenty two years after the incidents which were featured in the first Jurassic Park. Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) is the park operations manager, and her nephews, Zach Mitchell (Nick Robinson) and Gray Mitchell (Ty Simpkins) arrives at the park for having some family time together along with enjoying the special features of the place. The park had become a favourite destination for the tourists and had grown a lot with its environment and the new varieties of dinosaurs. Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) is a trainer of Velociraptors, who is asked by Simon Masrani (Irrfan Khan), the owner of the Jurassic World to check for safety at the enclosure set for a new genetically modified dinosaur which they call the Indominus Rex.
The dinosaur turns out to be smarter than they thought, as the creature manages to get out of the enclosure while pretending to have already escaped, and Owen just manages to get away at the last minute. The rest of the movie is about the destruction that the creature causes and how the team at the Jurassic World led by Owen and Claire manages to finish it off, as the hybrid dinosaur unleashes chaos, taking out the tracking implant from its own body and asserting its supremacy over all other creatures. At the same time, they also have to find the missing brothers who were on a ride which was cancelled with the declaration of emergency throughout the park.
As most of the fans might have expected, Jurassic World is nowhere near the original Jurassic Park. But among the sequels of the original movie, this one manages to be the best so far. The movie is full of entertainment even with those occasional moments of slight drag. There are some nice attractions and good design of dinosaurs with fine use of the CGI and the special effects. The new park which has its last name replaced is a joy to watch with its design and visuals. The creatures look better as you would expect, and the battles have also gone bigger with those better dinosaurs and people armed with better weapons. But there was the need to show and explain more of the new park, establishing it as a genuine wonder for the tourists.
Chris Pratt doesn’t go on like in Guardians of the Galaxy – he is not even the central character here despite the fact that he might be the one who goes through the maximum action sequences. It is a different kind of character from that space action movie, and he manages it very well. The scene with him riding on a bike surrounded by the raptors is a very nice one, and he is the one real action hero of this movie. The main character is played by Bryce Dallas Howard, and she is like the least interested character who manages to get forced into the action and she works that out very well. There is also more humour when she is around, and she contributes to saving the day as much as Chris Pratt and sometimes even more.
Irrfan Khan is a fine reason for the Indian audience to watch the movie. If you remember seeing him in The Amazing Spider-Man, this is a similar role, but lasts longer and actually he does more in this movie – another millionaire, ambitious, but not really villainous this time. But there is surely limited scope for performances in a movie ruled by dinosaurs who remain the true performers just like they have been throughout the franchise. This is the same reason why the smartness of the dinosaur should have been better used instead of its size and strength – may be it could have been shown to hunt more by using its intelligence causing the humans to come up with stranger ideas to bring it down. That would have meant scope for more stylish, and yet intelligent action.
Jurassic World is a movie that brings you some dinosaur nostalgia as the memories of your childhood’s most awesome movies come back to life. There are moments which remind us of the first movie of the franchise. There is no other creature which sells like the dinosaur in a movie, and it was evident with the rush at the theatre. The specialty of this one is that the whole thing connects better even to people with a wide variety of preferences. This could have used more wonder and tension, but this still manages to be your fine entertainer with scope of becoming a nice blockbuster, and may be even go on to become the third highest grossing movie of the year with half of 2015 gone, after Fast and Furious 7 and Avengers: Age of Ultron.
Release date: 11th June 2015 (India); 12th June 2015 (USA)
Running time: 130 minutes
Directed by: Colin Trevorrow
Starring: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Vincent D’Onofrio, Ty Simpkins, Nick Robinson, Omar Sy, B. D. Wong, Irrfan Khan, Jake Johnson, Brian Tee, Lauren Lapkus, Katie McGrath, Judy Greer, Andy Buckley, James DuMont, Jimmy Fallon
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Didn’t watch it yet 🙂
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Dinos will come to you sooner or later 😉
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Right 😉
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Aah! I was waiting for this one from you Teny.. for I knew the rhapsody of dinosaurs & Vampires would gonna be killer! 😉
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🙂 Thanks 🙂 The vampires send their regards 😀
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Even after knowing the negative points… i would still rush towards watching this… since it has a very good link with my childhood memories…. If Steven would have directed the movie, then probably you have given 85 or so… what say??
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I would like to think yes. Even if he hadn’t this could have been better with some more innovation 🙂
Yes, that nostalgia – got to go for it too!
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Let’s see if I can take out some time to watch this movie. A good review, Teny 🙂
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Thank you Purba 🙂 Yes, do give the dinosaurs some time to prove their worth 😀
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Thanks for sharing. Dont know if my son would want to see it though.. 🙂
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Thanks 🙂 I think that you might want to watch it more 🙂
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gonna watch it soon… 😉
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Hope you are in favour of dinosaurs 🙂
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Feeling like watching it right away after reading your review 🙂
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Dinosaurs are always awesome; or almost all the time, aren’t they? 🙂
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It’s on my To Watch list ever since I saw the trailers…unfortunately,couldn’t make it this weekend. 😦
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It is there to stay for long…so you should have a lot of time 🙂
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Yes…I too have that faith at the back of the mind … 😀
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Faith will make it happen! 😀
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hahahaaa …let’s see
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Do have a look at the FB inbox 🙂
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ok
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I’m going for it tomorrow… 😀
Nice review, Teny… 🙂
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Do tell the dinosaurs that the vampire team asked about them 😀
Thanks 🙂
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😀 …..
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You can tell an opinion about the change of design now itself though 😀
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It’s all dinosaurs, but the original story in the book is ignored right, I think the very first Jurassic Park had things very close to the book and we were kids then. I am surprised there is no 3D effects worth taking about then…action movies are cool and make a hit anyway… and we all think dinausours are stupid, very simple reason it has a huge body and very small head, if it had a bigger head we might believe them to be more intelligent… they had movies on sharks and anaconda…all very stupid movies in comparison to Dinausour, the action beats it… I still remember the scene from Jurassic Park 3…that van is going down and down and glass breaks and that lady almost falls and caughts something, its quite thrilling and exciting.
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Yes, the old movies are like nostalgia – nothing beats them; the first one was like one of its kind.
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I watched it with some kids and it was quite fun. The start of the movie was a bit slow but then the action sequences were just awesome! 3D is the way to go!
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🙂 Dinosaurs for a wonderful day! 😀
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Loved the action sequences…after Frozen this movie too puts sibling bonding, this time between brothers, and family in spotlight, that adds to the parents delight 🙂 A good entertainer..a must watch with your kids 🙂
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Yes, more of the family watch than the rest – the entertainer for the weekend 🙂
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Are you going to see and review Bahubali as well?
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There is a good chance because it will be dubbed in Malayalam, and staying within its genre, dubbing won’t have much of a bad effect 🙂
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I guess so. The cinematography is amazing!
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Yes, that trailer! And the leading ladies are favourites 😀
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I do not like Tammannah. But the other ones are nice 🙂
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I like them, especially Anushka Shetty 😀
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Let me check it 😀 Again.
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You mean check “her”? 😀
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No…the whole trailer 😉
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Oh! And have even more desire to watch it fast 😀
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me tooooo 😀
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I only hope that it releases here on the same day at the main theatres 🙂
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I think it will. It is huge!!!
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Yes, it also does give that feeling already 🙂
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Jumanji beats type? 😛
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Mission Impossible kind of 😛
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BWahahahahahha 😀
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😀
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its in my watch list 🙂
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Hope it will be in the watched list soon 🙂
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