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Jurassic World

2015 Directed by Colin Trevorrow

The park is open.

Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park, Jurassic World, as originally envisioned by John Hammond.

Chris Pratt Bryce Dallas Howard Irrfan Khan Vincent D'Onofrio Nick Robinson Ty Simpkins Jake Johnson Omar Sy BD Wong Judy Greer Lauren Lapkus Brian Tee Katie McGrath Andy Buckley Eric Edelstein Jimmy Fallon James DuMont Matt Burke Anna Talakkottur Colin Trevorrow Courtney J. Clark Kelly Washington Matthew Cardarople Chad Randall Yvonne Angulo Chloe Perrin Erika Erica Tiffany Forest Brandon Marc Higa

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Review by Alex Vlad ★★ 26

Why the dinosaur whale did not eat the whole park?
Review by Mikael Stånggren ★★★★ 15

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
Review by Evan ★★★½ 15

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…
Review by Matt Singer ★½ 10

This really might be the dumbest movie ever made.
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…
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…

Recent reviews

Review by Paul Romano ★★★★

Still the best Jurassic Park sequel, pretty easily. T-Rex and Blue vs. the Indominus Rex may be the best dinosaur fight in movie history.
Review by Darraghoco ★★★★

I'd like to say my love for this film is a guilty pleasure, but I don't feel guilty at all.

This film is so fun, even on my 3+ rewatch. It's funny, thrilling and Jake Johnson is low key the best part.
Review by Biedronski ★★★★½

A great look at “what if” Jurassic Park became a success, and a great return to the franchise. People can argue about the dinosaurs being friendly and teaming up with other dinosaurs, but it makes the last 20 mins fun as hell.
Review by bulletproofQpid ★★★½

"Maybe you should include that in the brochure... Eventually one of these things will eat someone."

Jurassic World, on a second viewing, is full of ridiculous shit that boggles the mind how it made it through to the final draft of the screenplay and it does limit my enjoyment of it some, but there's enough about it that I find satisfying that I still have to give it a positive rating. We'll see if that holds true with its sequel tonight.
Review by Haydn Elmore ★ 4

Ooof. I wanted to talked about how I really despite this film for a very long time. But I guess I should get a little bit of history on my thoughts towards the film it’s self before I get into the true picture of the review.

Back when this first came out and I was in the earlier stages of my ever growing cinephile life without not much of an intelligence thoughts on the films I see. So I saw this shortly after watching all of the other films up to that point and I liked it. Yeah there was a time where I thought the film was actually really good, like up as the second best of the series…
Review by Chris S ★★★★ 1

why do people hate this movie
Review by Emricko720 ★★★★

After rewatching this, I liked it a lot more than the first time around. This is probably still my second favorite Jurassic Movie. Chris Pratt plays the role perfectly.
Review by Jack Scholtz ★★★½

I think this film is so good and managed to revive the franchise in the best possible way. A lot of stuff doesn't work too well, but I think most of it does. It feels like a sequel to the first movie, which was a smart choice as that was clearly the best one. Having the park be open and fully function is dope. The I-Rex is pretty dumb but allows for a cool enough antagonist that the audience had no idea of what it was capable of. Watching people get murdered is brutal because this thing shreds through bodies like my paper shredder shreds through paper. Wooooooweeeeee, the scenes feel so brutal and I can not wait to see this new movie that Universal cooked up for me.
Review by Jakob_Mathews ★★½

Honestly, just meh. It’s fun for what it is I guess, but it doesn’t do anything new or creative. Besides Pratt and Howard, I never really cared for any of the characters. I hate that these blockbusters always have to put a military subplot in everything, it gets SO STALE. The third act is pretty fun, but this is as mediocre are you can get unfortunately.