Aidan the Aspie Critic: Jurassic World

Welcome to another review 65 million years in the making! Because that's how long it takes for me to put out one of these reviews... This is Jurassic World!

Jurassic World is the 4th instalment to the Jurassic Park series and is the true sequel to the original 1993 classic, Jurassic Park. Yeah yeah, I know we also have The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III, but those movies are awful and, aside from starring some of the same characters, in no way continue the story from the first movie! Jurassic World finally gives the series the true sequel it deserves! Set 20 years after the events of the first Jurassic Park, the movie is about 2 kids who go on vacation to Jurassic World, a Universal Studios/Disney World style theme park featuring living dinosaurs, to see their Aunt who is one of the directors of the park. At first, things are going great! Sure, the kids' parents are getting divorced and their Aunt is too busy to spend any time with them, but who cares?! There's DINOSAURS!!!!!!! However, it turns out that people are tired of seeing live dinosaurs after the park has been open for 10 years. They want something more! The Jurassic World scientists have created that something. A brand new hybrid dinosaur, the Indominus Rex! But, big surprise, the Indominus Rex breaks out and goes on a rampage throughout the island! Can the kids, their Aunt, a Veloceraptor trainer, and the Jurassic World Veloceraptor security system stop the Indominus Rex's rampage? Watch Jurassic World to find out!

This movie was AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This movie is so fun! There are lots of intense, awesome, and very well done dinosaur chases and fights, the story is simple and engaging, and the characters are likeable! What this movie did great was creating the atmosphere of Jurassic World itself. It actually feels like a place that you can actually visit, and it makes you want to go there, even if you do get eaten by a dinosaur! The acting is good, and there are a lot less scenes that go nowhere than in the first movie. There are still things that weren't explained, but it was more subtle and you forget about it. There is also some good comedy, too! The characters seem more genuine, relatable, and likeable than in the first movie, for the most part. There are no stuttering Jeff Goldblums or jerk lawyers or Al from Toy Story 2 in this movie! There were lots of little references and homages to the original Jurassic Park that are really clever, and I won't DARE spoil them here for you, the reveals are too mind blowing! If there is something bad about this movie, it would be that the special effects aren't very convincing. Like, at all. I never actually felt like the dinosaurs were actually there, I never felt like you could reach out and touch them. Maybe I was half convinced they were real at a couple points, but overall, the dinosaurs look really fake. In the original Jurassic Park, the special effects were a mix of puppets, CGI, costumes, and animatronics. In Jurassic World, it seems they only used CGI. Now, that wouldn't be so bad, but here's the thing. At times, the CGI in this movie looks worse than in the original Jurassic Park! In some scenes, I didn't feel like the dinosaurs were as finely polished or as finely integrated into the scene than in the first movie. This is extremely disappointing, but it's all a matter of how much you care about the special effects. They aren't bad in this movie, some dinosaurs, like the Indominus Rex for example, look great, but there is also lots of slightly sub-par special effects in this movie as well. If you are a special effects enthusiast, this movie leaves a little bit to be desired, but if you care about the story and characters more than the special effects, then I think you'll like this movie a lot better. Overall this is a really fun movie to go see this summer! It's not fantastic, none of the Jurassic Park movies are, even the first one, but it is just awesome! I'd give this movie a 3.9 stars out of 5! Clever girl!

Have you seen Jurassic World? What did you think of it? Tell me in the comments!