Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom - Film Review

May be there IS such a thing as getting over dinosaurs. 

Jurassic World (the last one) was entirely enjoyable, because it came 14 years after the last Jurassic Park and a whole 21 years after the first mind blowing Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park. Can you believe that was 1993! A whole millennial generation was born and grown up in that time. And for a new generation, the formula worked by keeping the same story of a good intent of playing with genetics going horribly wrong, with dollops of special effects, kids in danger, and lots and lots of dinosaurs. Plus it had the new cool guy Chris Patt, who was actually training raptors. And then if you thought T-Rex was the scariest thing extinct, there was the newest scary-Dino-on-the-block, the Indominous Rex. It was a perfect come back of an iconic franchise. It made us ooh and aah, mixing the nostalgia of the old movies with the newness of some fresh dino action, that we hadn’t had a taste of in a long long time. 

Jurassic World 2 (Fallen Kingdom), however, comes only 2 years later, and brings nothing new. 

The plot is something we have seen before. It starts with a reason to go back to the abandoned island. There are again unscrupulous characters who want to profit from these creatures. There are the good guys who want to save the dinosaurs while also saving themselves. There are dinosaurs running, looking huge, killing, grazing, groaning, smashing, and generally on the loose, having a good time. There are those hiding-from-the-dinosaurs-in-closed-spaces and many narrow escapes. And once again, there is a new genetically modified creature that is more dangerous than any other creature before (but don’t hold your breath for it). 

In short, it’s more-of-the-same-of-the-more. Watch the movie for the kids who don’t really remember the last 4 Jurassic movies, but don’t expect to be thrilled. 

May be there is something about getting the dinosaurs back to human land, that just doesn’t work. Remember, Jurassic Park 2 (the lost world) was again a let down, and again there they get the TRex back to main land to create havoc. I feel may be, in our imagination, the dino world is a place so far in the past, and so far in the unreal world, that it loses its magic the minute it touches the real world. May be the real world is so scary by itself, that the dinosaurs don’t really make the cut for giving a chill down your spine. I mean, honestly, what’s scarier “13 Reasons Why” or “Jurassic Park”? 

But, then may be there is still a chance for the 3rd in the Jurassic World Series to bounce back, if the Jurassic Park pattern is to repeat. Remember, how Jurassic Park 3 totally redeemed itself by going back to the island! May be the makers will realise that dinosaurs work only in a world where they can rule, where man and his twisted rules don’t apply, where man is as much at the mercy of natural forces as the dinosaurs are.

Well, we can only keep our fingers crossed for the third one. Because it’s a bit depressing to feel that we may be over dinosaurs! I seriously hope that is not the case...