Director: Jurassic World
Cast: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Irrfan Khan and Vincent D'Onofrio
The big take away, apart from the large prehistoric action portions, from Jurassic World is that Chris Pratt is the new Harrison Ford. Heck he’s even dressed like a cross between Han Solo and Indiana Jones. And he’s motorcycling around the jungles of Jurassic World playing hero as if he were in a Jurassic edition of temple run. For all its corny ideas and lack of new ones, this big budget CGI-driven creature feature action saga, does justice to every sub genre. End of the day, it entertains you and keeps you glued to the frenetically paced 2 hours. It’s got blockbuster written all over it.
The story by Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver seems like it’s borrowing too much from Steven Spielberg’s original Jurassic Park from 1993. Like in the original, kids come visiting the Park’s management only to get embroiled in the hysterics of truant tyrannosaurs and raptors. There’s a swashbuckling hero, a very likeable female lead, business minded heroes and of course both friendly and hostile dinosaurs. Again, the main antagonist is a Tyrannosaurus Rex, a new genetically superior one, perhaps with an upgrade in both IQ and EQ. So is Jurassic World really just a glorious upgrade of the movie that started the trend of CGI heavy action adventures? Yes and no. This film is building up all that was good in the first movie. So the inadvertent borrowing of patterns is understood. But all this movie is actually trying to do is to course correct everything that went wrong in the franchise’s second and third films. And Colin Trevorrow’s second film manages to achieve a whole lot of what it sets out to do. Most importantly, it keeps you on the edge of your seat. Not with story but with action sequences, chases and dino action.
Having said that, Trevorrow’s first feature, Safety Not Guaranteed was more novel and captivating in its ideas. It must’ve been made in a fraction of the budget of Jurassic World though and it certainly did not offer the kind of visual arguments that JW does. That is the biggest triumph of this movie. It stages this ultra-modern, prehistoric theme park setting on a scale that’s comparable to movies like Avatar or the new Hobbit movies. The detailing in not just the dinosaurs but the location and jungles is phenomenal. There’s no way you’re going to convince yourself that this place does not exist. Doesn’t matter if you’re older than 8, this film can resuscitate your ability to marvel.
For the Indian audience, the biggest rooting point will be Irrfan Khan’s involvement in the film. He plays the owner of Jurassic World. He’s a billionaire who takes the business of dino entertainment very seriously. It’s his ambition to be bigger, better and badder than anything out there that manifests into the growth of JW itself. And then there’s Chris Pratt’s acrobatic and animal friendly performance. He seems to have picked up the charm and charisma right where he left it in the Guardians of the Galaxy movie. And his chemistry with the famed raptors is quite interesting.
So watching Jurassic World is like being in a theme park ride. There’s multi-million dollars worth of great CGI and unlike the superhero movies that employ it with in-your-face abundance, this movie lets it enrich the surroundings and add detail to the experience. The writing team though did a much better job with their previous offerings – the Planet of the Apes movies. But all of it put together, this one certainly hits the right kind of fervour and passion. It’s a fun film for kids, young adults as well as grownups that actually grew up wide-eyed at the prospect of a gigantic safari with the dinosaurs. 22 years later, the idea hasn’t lost an iota of its charm.
The story by Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver seems like it’s borrowing too much from Steven Spielberg’s original Jurassic Park from 1993. Like in the original, kids come visiting the Park’s management only to get embroiled in the hysterics of truant tyrannosaurs and raptors. There’s a swashbuckling hero, a very likeable female lead, business minded heroes and of course both friendly and hostile dinosaurs. Again, the main antagonist is a Tyrannosaurus Rex, a new genetically superior one, perhaps with an upgrade in both IQ and EQ. So is Jurassic World really just a glorious upgrade of the movie that started the trend of CGI heavy action adventures? Yes and no. This film is building up all that was good in the first movie. So the inadvertent borrowing of patterns is understood. But all this movie is actually trying to do is to course correct everything that went wrong in the franchise’s second and third films. And Colin Trevorrow’s second film manages to achieve a whole lot of what it sets out to do. Most importantly, it keeps you on the edge of your seat. Not with story but with action sequences, chases and dino action.
Having said that, Trevorrow’s first feature, Safety Not Guaranteed was more novel and captivating in its ideas. It must’ve been made in a fraction of the budget of Jurassic World though and it certainly did not offer the kind of visual arguments that JW does. That is the biggest triumph of this movie. It stages this ultra-modern, prehistoric theme park setting on a scale that’s comparable to movies like Avatar or the new Hobbit movies. The detailing in not just the dinosaurs but the location and jungles is phenomenal. There’s no way you’re going to convince yourself that this place does not exist. Doesn’t matter if you’re older than 8, this film can resuscitate your ability to marvel.
For the Indian audience, the biggest rooting point will be Irrfan Khan’s involvement in the film. He plays the owner of Jurassic World. He’s a billionaire who takes the business of dino entertainment very seriously. It’s his ambition to be bigger, better and badder than anything out there that manifests into the growth of JW itself. And then there’s Chris Pratt’s acrobatic and animal friendly performance. He seems to have picked up the charm and charisma right where he left it in the Guardians of the Galaxy movie. And his chemistry with the famed raptors is quite interesting.
So watching Jurassic World is like being in a theme park ride. There’s multi-million dollars worth of great CGI and unlike the superhero movies that employ it with in-your-face abundance, this movie lets it enrich the surroundings and add detail to the experience. The writing team though did a much better job with their previous offerings – the Planet of the Apes movies. But all of it put together, this one certainly hits the right kind of fervour and passion. It’s a fun film for kids, young adults as well as grownups that actually grew up wide-eyed at the prospect of a gigantic safari with the dinosaurs. 22 years later, the idea hasn’t lost an iota of its charm.
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