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Jurassic World - 3 1/2 stars

The “Jurassic Park” franchise is one of the most famous film series going. I loved the original and I liked the second one too but I found the third to be underwhelming. “Jurassic World” changes a few things but is essentially the same kind-of dinosaur carnage we’ve come to know so well and is a reasonably enjoyable movie.

Years after the disastrous events in the previous films, “Jurassic World” shows the dinosaur theme park is brimming with tourists. Now the scientists have cooked up a dinosaur made up of a whole bunch of other dinosaurs’ DNA to please the market. The problem is that this new dinosaur breaks out and suddenly, it’s mayhem. Only a dinosaur wrangler (Chris Pratt “Guardians of the Galaxy”) can save the day.

Chris Pratt is the star and he’s pretty forgettable. He reminds so much of the shark wrangler played by Thomas Jane in “Deep Blue Sea”. Bryce Dallas Howard (“The Village”) plays the ditsy girl in it. The kids are dull beyond belief. The people have never been the franchise’s strongpoint. The dinosaurs look great; I like the underwater one even though it isn’t actually a dinosaur if you look up the species on the net. It’s fun to watch the dinosaurs scrap even if the sense of wonder from the earlier films is less present here.

“Jurassic World” is all about the dinosaur carnage and in that respect it delivers. It isn’t as imaginative as some of the earlier ones directed by Steven Spielberg but I think the film is good enough for me. So where will the dinosaurs go next? I’m assuming that they’ll have to go into outer space soon (“Hellraiser”, “Critters” and “James Bond” have already done it) but until then we can sit and we can watch dinosaurs tear up the park one more time in “Jurassic World”.

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