Technically spectacular, but bit disappointing . . .
Visually, perhaps the best yet in the artform of bringing dinosaurs to life. No problem with the suspension of disbelief there, especially with the added details of feathers, and other such anatomically precise renderings.
But the story and acting, well, more than a bit disappointing.
It seems they were trying too hard to play up the nostalgia and humorous dialogue woven into this. As for generic family viewing, this really is more of a movie for kids, with the parents and adults getting their layers of content almost as more of an afterthought.
The one character that really stood out was DeWanda Wise's "Kayla", the gritty, been around the block a few times pilot who loves her flying machinery, and takes life as it comes.
The usual suspect crew from the previous films in the series gave the story continuity, but the "magic" just wasn't there. Not sure how to put this exactly, but it just seemed canned, forced, clicheic, to the point where you could tell what their next line was going to be long before they said it.
Isabella Sermon did as good a job as can be expected being the young "Maisie", trying to discover the real truth about who she is, where did she come from and so on.
The most unfortunate was Jeff Goldblum, who could have been given much better material to work with, but was cast in this very narrow caricature that he had to be confined to.
The actual story itself was a bit odd, not so much about dinosaurs living in a human world, but about the evil BioSyn corporation and swarms of giant locusts wreaking havoc upon the civilized world. I get the implications suggested, but it was more than a bit preachy, depicting the popular "woke" notion of evil biotech saturated with corruption and ill intent. The ending was Pollyannaish to an extreme, but again, aimed at kids for the most part.
This could have been so much more than what it turned out to be, but then again it could have also been worse.
If there is a next one of these, maybe they'll get it closer to what it could become.
Visually, perhaps the best yet in the artform of bringing dinosaurs to life. No problem with the suspension of disbelief there, especially with the added details of feathers, and other such anatomically precise renderings.
But the story and acting, well, more than a bit disappointing.
It seems they were trying too hard to play up the nostalgia and humorous dialogue woven into this. As for generic family viewing, this really is more of a movie for kids, with the parents and adults getting their layers of content almost as more of an afterthought.
The one character that really stood out was DeWanda Wise's "Kayla", the gritty, been around the block a few times pilot who loves her flying machinery, and takes life as it comes.
The usual suspect crew from the previous films in the series gave the story continuity, but the "magic" just wasn't there. Not sure how to put this exactly, but it just seemed canned, forced, clicheic, to the point where you could tell what their next line was going to be long before they said it.
Isabella Sermon did as good a job as can be expected being the young "Maisie", trying to discover the real truth about who she is, where did she come from and so on.
The most unfortunate was Jeff Goldblum, who could have been given much better material to work with, but was cast in this very narrow caricature that he had to be confined to.
The actual story itself was a bit odd, not so much about dinosaurs living in a human world, but about the evil BioSyn corporation and swarms of giant locusts wreaking havoc upon the civilized world. I get the implications suggested, but it was more than a bit preachy, depicting the popular "woke" notion of evil biotech saturated with corruption and ill intent. The ending was Pollyannaish to an extreme, but again, aimed at kids for the most part.
This could have been so much more than what it turned out to be, but then again it could have also been worse.
If there is a next one of these, maybe they'll get it closer to what it could become.