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…

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…

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…

*Was a 64, now a 90*

By all accounts, I should hate Jurassic World, but I can't seem to shake it. It's a deeply cynical remix of the original Jurassic Park, with key action beats and iconography repurposed and heightened for a modern audience. But how it goes about doing that is incredibly satisfying. This is a definitive summer blockbuster of the 2010s in my eyes. Paced like a bullet, full of Spielberg-ian flair, and genuinely entertaining - the dumb simplicity of the whole affair is riveting. Not only does it keep the concept short and sweet - a functioning dinosaur theme park run amok - but it also knows not to overstay its welcome. Go in, watch some dinos…

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…