The answer, according to Fallen Kingdom's filmmakers, is B. B.) Literally jump through a waterfall of dripping lava in an attempt to get a quick human-shaped snack and then get into a big fight with another dinosaur over aforementioned snack?.A.) Run terrified from the GIANT EXPLODING VOLCANO?.The series jumped the mosasaur, you could say.įallen Kingdom, unfortunately, is more of the same.įor example, imagine you are a dinosaur running from an erupting volcano. I couldn't believe any actual animal would do any of these things. In Jurassic World we had a ridiculous tag team T-Rex/velociraptor battle, pterosaurs swarming people like flying monkeys from The Wizard of Oz, raptors throwing themselves headlong through the glass of a moving vehicle. Should I run from the exploding volcano? Nah, I'll get into a fight then pose dramatically. In the context of the first Jurassic World film it made sense that the genetically engineered Indomitus Rex was larger than life, but this Michael Bay-esque approach has bled into the rest of the dinosaurs. Unfortunately the films' producers identify more with the former than the latter. The last two Jurassic World films had a cool riff on this theme: The tension between people who want bigger, scarier theme park attractions and/or "genetic weapons" and other characters who want the dinos treated like living, breathing animals. The raptors in Jurassic Park didn't fight a T-Rex because it was fun, they did it because they were backed into a corner. The T-rex in The Lost World wasn't chasing down humans because it just really liked eating people. They trigger a part of your brain shaped by millions of years of running and hiding from things that think and move like JP's dinosaurs. Its T-rex and raptors were believable as predators, and that made them scary and cool in a way that's different to most movie monsters. The Jurassic Park films have (or had) a theme at the heart of the franchise: Dinosaurs are animals, they are not monsters. Partly it's terrible human characters but a bigger part is the terrible dinosaur characters. The last two Jurassic World movies just make me sad.
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