Sunday 21 June 2015

Jurassic World (12A)

The opening scenes of this new blockbuster is featured in a house in a snowfilled Midwestern landscape, where a young long-haired boy is looking at pictures of dinosaurs through a Viewmaster Camera.  The room is designed in 1970s décor, and a film camera is featured on a shelf in the background.
However as the movie sails into the next few minutes, the viewer sees the movie is set in the present day, where two young brothers are being prepared by their divorcing parents to visit their aunt, Claire played by Bryce Dallas Howard.  Claire is curator at a theme park called Jurassic World.
‘Jurassic World’ – the movie is set twenty two years after the blockbuster, Stephen Spielberg movie, ‘Jurassic Park’, which sired two further sequels.  In 1993, cinemagoers were fascinated with the lifelike display of the dinosaurs in the original. Today, some of the shows of this latest movie are in 3D, making the subjects more lifelike.
This movie is set twenty two years after ‘Jurassic Park’, and the site is a major and true to life Dinosaur Park.  It is going through its recessionary phase, and fighting to stay in the race, so it must be the best, and gain new and more fantastic dinosaurs.  So a major new animal attraction is planned to attract new viewers.  However the plan backfires, in shades of King Kong the movie.
Action is aplenty in the feature when the new creature is unveiled, and when he acts up.
Meanwhile, when the two boys visit Claire, they get lost on the Jurassic journey, and end up in the forbidden dinosaur habitat land.
The hero of the hour, Owen, who sets out to rescue the boys and many others lost in the clutches of the dinosaurs, is played by Chris Pratt, and the character has a past love/hate relationship of sorts with Claire.
Owen is a type of 1930s movie serial hero, and the movie is a typical blockbuster disaster story, of which were popular in the 1990s.  ‘Jurassic World’ captures a lot of the feeling of that recent time.  However there is not much originality going on here, and everything happens as expected.  But the special effects are better than the previous three films and it’s edge of the seat stuff, and the 3D also doesn’t disappoint.   
David Flynn


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