The film is mildly entertaining and occasionally tear-inducing (as animal deaths always get me more than human ones), but the film feels too cut-and-paste and tonally off-kilter.
The returning characters exist merely to provide a moral base for the audience amongst evil men looking to make money at all costs, and their new sidekicks are total cliches given lines merely to make ten year-olds chuckle (as they were wont to do constantly every time the sheepish computer nerd made a badly-scripted "I'm such a wuss, I'm so funny" one-liner).
The portion on the island should have and could have been handled better, but the entire thing felt rushed as an excuse to get our group and their dinosaur captors into the second phase of the story, which was the most interesting. The darker second half involving the evil corporations and military industrial complex saved the film from total humdrum, but the contrast between settings only serves to highlight how uneven the film is as a whole.
The special effects are typically amazing, but the thrill of seeing dinosaurs on screen has long passed, hence the creators rooting for us to connect with them emotionally rather than visually. It works, but one wonders what the franchise is saying when you're rooting for the dinosaurs more than the humans.
No set piece "wows", but there are enough decent ones to make some fun entertainment if you don't have your standards set too high.
It's too bad they didn't put as much effort into the script as they did the special effects.
The returning characters exist merely to provide a moral base for the audience amongst evil men looking to make money at all costs, and their new sidekicks are total cliches given lines merely to make ten year-olds chuckle (as they were wont to do constantly every time the sheepish computer nerd made a badly-scripted "I'm such a wuss, I'm so funny" one-liner).
The portion on the island should have and could have been handled better, but the entire thing felt rushed as an excuse to get our group and their dinosaur captors into the second phase of the story, which was the most interesting. The darker second half involving the evil corporations and military industrial complex saved the film from total humdrum, but the contrast between settings only serves to highlight how uneven the film is as a whole.
The special effects are typically amazing, but the thrill of seeing dinosaurs on screen has long passed, hence the creators rooting for us to connect with them emotionally rather than visually. It works, but one wonders what the franchise is saying when you're rooting for the dinosaurs more than the humans.
No set piece "wows", but there are enough decent ones to make some fun entertainment if you don't have your standards set too high.
It's too bad they didn't put as much effort into the script as they did the special effects.