Whereas Jurassic Park urged respect in the presence of the natural world, and balanced the awe and dignity of these behemoths of time with the horror their ferocity (and man's intervention) could inspire, the sequel's, somewhat ironically, abuse them as theme park thrills. Jeff "Ian Malcolm" Goldblum's oft-quoted line could have been directed at the sequel makers themselves: "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should." It’s as if they were unable to follow the philosophy that the original movie laid out. We spot their shadows or see heads of humans craning upward to look at them as they stealthily emerge from the undergrowth.The sins of the Jurassic Park sequels are many – perhaps not as egregious as those that have befallen other tentpole blockbuster franchises, like Star Wars or The Terminator films.īut following Steven Spielberg's initial foray into ancient natural history, it's been a case of diminishing returns not only for Spielberg, but the directors that followed him with sequels of their own: Joe Johnston, Colin Trevorrow and J. The film has such momentum that we hardly notice the holes in the plotting.īayona doesn’t just show us the dinosaurs full frontal. For no particular reason, hydrogen cyanide will suddenly be released into the atmosphere or there will be power cuts and random explosions. We’ll see a character who seems to have a badly damaged leg one moment clambering onto a rooftop in acrobatic fashion the next. (This appears to have been modelled on the Natural History Museum.)Ĭontinuity and plausibility both occasionally wobble. Some of the story unfolds in the Lockwood mansion, a vast and draughty old pile that comes complete with terraces, greenhouses, underground labs, labyrinthine corridors, dumbwaiters (very useful for hiding in whenever the Indoraptor is nearby) and its own exhibition hall. One of the boldest conceits here is to combine the dinosaur action with elements of gothic horror. Jurassic World 3 already has a release date.
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