Saturday, June 13, 2015

Jurassic Jaws Befriend "The Bachelor"

An idea that never made it into the final script
 T   wenty-three years later, we are bored of dinosaurs. It's no longer enough for us to see a "T-Rex" or a Brachiosaurus, now, a generation of kids who can't even tell time via an old-fashioned wrist-watch want to see bigger and badder creatures that have names that are as easy to pronounce and write like "awesome" and "LOL". The men and women running "Jurassic World" are, of course, happy to oblige 20,000 of their patrons and invent a new kind of dinosaur without respecting the laws of Mother Nature.

When eligible bachelor and Raptor wrangler "Owen" (Chris Pratt) gets thrown into the mix after being summoned by a temporarily professionally clothed heroine with lots of sex-appeal named "Claire" (Bryce Dallas Howard) to inspect a paddock meant to keep  her newest creation locked up, the pair soon find out that this new dinosaur is a little more than they bargained for after it escapes and starts killing everything in its path. Along for the ride are, of course, the obligatory children who seem to be there only to satisfy a Spielberg-esque genre but have little or no appeal to the viewer, and lots and lots of dinosaurs, who are the real stars of the film.

For adults and teenage boys alike, the Raptors are particularly interesting to watch as they have bonded to Owen and communicate with him with riveting eye movements, snarls, and incredibly smooth gestures. The "T-Rex" is still a marvel to watch and the Indominus Rex is really something to behold but, when Claire finally takes off her blazer and exposes some cleavage to Owen and says "I'm ready", it does not take a genius in 3D glasses to figure out just who this movie is really geared towards.

The sub-plot of turning the Raptors into weapons of war reminiscent of the "Alien" movies is particularly boring as are the scenes when bad-ass, gun-toting marine types are trying to take down the Indominus Rex that are ripped off from, of course, "Aliens". The human characters in the film have little or no chemistry except in a phoney t.v. style fashion in the vein of "The Bachelor" complete with slow-motion dinosaurs that by far outclass them.
All that is missing from the film's ending is a cliched kiss between Owen and Claire that is instead replaced by one of its fantastic-looking dinosaurs who are really the only redeeming features of this so far over-rated, un-original movie that is guaranteed to  satisfy viewers with three-second attention spans and make millions.

1 comment:

  1. Just saw this with YOU, Dane! I must admit, your review was spot on. Everyone except the dinosaurs seemed to be phoning it in, however, and as I remarked to you during the film, reptiles don't blink.

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