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  Review by Aleeex ★★ 30

  Why the dinosaur whale did not eat the whole park?

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  Review by Mikael Stånggren ★★★★ 25

  God creates dinosaurs

  God destroys dinosaurs

  God creates Steven Spielberg

  Steven Spielberg creates dinosaurs

  Dinosaurs inspire man

  Man destroys God

  The Indie-to-Hollywood Conversion Factory creates Colin Trevorrow

  Colin Trevorrow reverse-engineers a beloved childhood favorite and puts most of the pieces back in a satisfying, nostalgic and highly entertaining fashion, if also neglecting the importance of character and the great, oh-so-great value of Goldblumian acting capabilities.

  Second-rate writers inherit the earth

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  Review by Evan ★★★½ 18

  If I had seen this film when I was 13, I would have absolutely loved it. At 22 years old, I still really liked this movie. I'm essentially still a kid at heart, so I had a pretty darn good time with Jurassic World.

  In a sense Jurassic World is kind of a bad film. It's messy, cheesy, predictable, and kind of stupid. The script is weak and the dialogue will make you roll your eyes. Despite all of that, I still had quite a bit of fun and I am a fan of this movie. As an entertainment piece it really delivered for me. It's very exciting and fun to watch. There's a lot of really solid action set…

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  Review by Bethany ★★★ 2

  tag yourself i'm the tourist making sure he grabs his two margaritas as the dinosaur is attacking

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  Review by Matt Singer ★½ 12

  This really might be the dumbest movie ever made.

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  Review by Patrick Willems ★½ 5

  Everything about this movie sucks other than Jake Johnson

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  Review by Matt Singer ★½

  There are a multitude of reasons this movie is bad, but on this viewing I found myself focusing on Chris Pratt, an actor I generally like in his Marvel stuff but find absolutely insufferable here. The difference between his action heroes, I came to realize, is that Star-Lord is a doofus, so his arrogance is endearing because it is totally misplaced and unearned, while Jurassic World’s Owen Grady is this elite high-status hunter/soldier/dinosaur trainer who can seemingly do everything and anything, so his posturing just makes him comes across like a smug prick.

  Maybe if Owen was the villain that might be something; he’d sort of work as the embodiment of the Jurassic franchise’s ongoing commentary about mankind’s hubris and…

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  Review by Tiago Costa ★★★ 5

  The movie leans too much on dinosaurs being cool and Chris Pratt being likable and cool, the writing is really lackluster. The plotting of the two kids is some lazy second-hand Spielbergism.

  The CGI looks great when the camera holds still, but the shots are constantly fast-panning during the action, making the screen a blurry mess. Several scenes seem to be there mostly to have stills of Chris Pratt looking good in front of a motorcycle, on a motorcycle, with a gun, etc.

  It also has a dearth of solid female characters when compared to the original. In the original, Laura Dern played a scientist who was attractive but not sexualized, in this it's Bryce Dallas Howard, a neglectful ice…

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  Review by aaron ★★★★½

  laura dern walked so bryce dallas howard could run ... in heels

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  Review by Jake Cole ½ 7

  I never care that much about box office but it makes me sad that a film like this, that so blatantly hates its audience, is now one of the highest-grossing films of all time. The first film extrapolates its maker's deep love for his audience by presenting a man so eager to please that he does not notice the ruinous, lethal mistake he has made until it is much too late. From the start, this film takes pains to point out what a stupid thing it is, both the action of characters within the movie and the movie itself. But people will line up to be eaten, and to see this movie, because they're just so fucking dumb, not even…

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★½ 5

  There is exactly one brilliant moment in Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic World: a teenage boy named Zach (Nick Robinson) strolls through the T-Rex exhibit at the eponymous amusement park, just one of the 20,000 visitors who will pass through the tropical tourist attraction that day. His phone rings; it’s his mom calling, and she wants to have a typical mom conversation.

  As Zach turns his back to the viewing window in order to hear the voice on the other end of the line, the single most iconic film creature of the last 25 years loudly waddles through the background with an ancient roar. The crowd coos, doing their best to convince each other that they’ve just seen something awesome, but Zach doesn’t even flinch. The spectacle is about as exciting to him as last year’s Christmas presents.

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★ 10

  Jurassic World, directed by Colin Trevorrow, took me completely by surprise. Both a massive expansion of the original seeds planted by Jurassic Park and a supremely entertaining summer ride, Jurassic World thrives on the grand ideas woven within the franchise's DNA. And just like the obligatory new dinosaur, Jurassic World looks and feels like a hybrid. The result is a film of unevenness and odd subplots, always ready to jump to another quip or in-your-face statement.

  And yet, this summer blockbuster transcends it all. Once the shit hits the fan, Jurassic World is as immensely satisfying and FUCK YEAH spectacular than anything that I've seen in quite awhile. It all comes together into a dinosaur epic that works precisely because…