By: Anton Massopust III
“So, you made a promise to a dinosaur,” Dr. Ian Malcolm.
Jurassic Park returns to the big screen and engages some of the subjects that are happening today. It also has plenty of action and adventure. This new film picks up right where Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom ended. The park is gone due to a volcanic explosion. And now dinosaurs are everywhere on every continent in every city in every town in every corner of the Earth. There’s a new company that designed a sanctuary for the dinosaurs. They use the same technology that dinosaurs were created from to fight diseases and create a new form of grain. For the Dinosaurs it is a Safe Haven so nobody bothers them, and they can be studied and can live in peace. Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) and his girlfriend Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) are keeping a young girl Maisie Lockwood (Isabella Sermon) safe from Biosyn, a company who want to harness her DNA and get her genetic code because she is connected not only to the dinosaurs but because she is a clone of the granddaughter of Hammond (Richard Attenborough) who created the park. She is some kind of scientific miracle and Doctor Grant (Sam Neill) and his girlfriend Ellie (Laura Dern) get involved in this because giant prehistoric locusts are genetically engineered by Biosyn to eat only the grain from the competition of rival farms. They are behind this and creating a worldwide famine so that everyone will be pressured to buy from them.
The old cast in the new cast from both Jurassic Park franchises join together to rescue the girl and find Blue’s (one of the Raptors) baby. Of course, we’ll see plenty of new dinosaurs including an Allosaurus who fights a Tyrannosaurus Rex and an Archaeopteryx. Add a huge dinosaur that’s a vegetarian with huge claws. I like the environmental message they are using throughout these movies, and they touch on exactly what’s going on today because of all the things that are going on at the grocery store.
Chris Pratt is very funny and has always been a great action hero. Doctor Grant and the rest of the cast are great, including Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) who had all the funny lines as he usually does. And of course, those great special effects and a huge dinosaur fight. What kid (or a kid at heart) doesn’t want to see that? It’s hard to believe that the first Jurassic Park came out so long ago (1993) and the special effects have so much improved to make it seem like dinosaurs are back from the prehistoric past. There isn’t much on plot here, but that’s not we don’t go see these movies. There’s plenty of dinosaurs and action. Go and see it because it is a lot of fun, and maybe beforehand introduce your family to the new and old Jurassic Park.
