Jurassic World: Rebirth

Currently only in Theaters

Runtime: 2 Hours and 13 Minutes

Rated PG-13

“Welcome to Jurassic Park” Can you hear the music playing in the background……….again? Wait, didn’t this series end with a trilogy with Chris Pratt a few years ago? Nope, life found a way.

Dinosaurs that were in the wild during Jurassic World: Dominion have almost all died out, except for around the equator where the climate allows them to continue to thrive. To go to these locations is highly illegal and dangerous, though. Thus, a pharmaceutical company wants to quietly take a small team there and procure blood samples from the three largest dinosaurs still living. Only good intentions (and zillions of dollars) leading them on this adventure. They will need to visit an island with an abandoned In-Gen research facility where a terrible accident took place. Nothing wrong could happen right?

Themes:

Dinosaurs, experimentation, pharmaceutical research, heart disease, useless boyfriends, loss, blood samples, surviving, accidents, consequences, all vs. some, danger, doing the right thing, blood samples, sacrifice to save another, family, judging someone before you get to know them, protecting your children, greed, mutants, heroism, selfishness, close escapes, science, and death.

Language:

A*s - 1 B*tch - 2 D*mn - 2 Hell - 11 Piss - 2 Sh*t - 6 Religious Exclamations - 16

Stuff to be aware of:

Scary - Expect your typical Jurassic Park style scares. A man is stuck in a containment unit with a mutated monster dinosaur. The monster lifts him up after playing with him and puts the man in his mouth and walks off.

There are multiple scenes that take place on the water with dinosaurs circling people. In one scene a dinosaur turns over a sail boat causing a man to be trapped inside. He escapes. Later, a character is almost eaten hanging over the edge. A man gets drug off the boat by a Dino. Blood can be seen in the water. Another character is drug off land and into the water and eaten.

There are multiple chase scenes in which some people are eaten and some people live to be chased again.

The new “big bad” mutant dinosaur is a big creepy. Kind of looks like a t-rex mixed with a xenomorph from the Alien franchise.

Sexual - A girl mentions to her father about her boyfriend, “that he doesn’t see the side of him he sees. Her little sister says, “yeah, the naked side.” A man pees, but his private area is not seen. The sound effects make it obvious that he is urinating.

Violence/Gore - Expect your typical Jurassic Park style violence and gore, but I’ll add the more intense things here. There is a dead dinosaur that has its midsection opened exposing its ribs and guts. A smaller dinosaur is eating on it. A man is seen being swallowed by a Dino with a giant beak. His legs can be seen hanging out as the Dino tries to swallow him and succeeds.

A man is bitten in half and is chewed on a by a large mutant dinosaur. His hand it severed from his body and falls to the ground where a character picks up what it is holding.

Other - One character mentions having weed and offers it to others in his group.

Seeing It With Your Family

This one isn’t any scarier, violent, or gory than the other movies in the series. If you watched the last trilogy you probably won’t find this one much different. I actually felt this one was slightly more “tame” than some of the others in the series.

What I Thought

During the course of the movie it never really justifies it’s existence nor that there needs to be more stories told in this version of the Jurassic Park universe. This one never fully feels like a Jurassic Park movie as much as it felt like a movie with dinosaurs. The only ties it has to the franchise that came before it is that it explains away the cool “dinosaurs and humans share the planet” idea that Dominion ended with and Alan Grant gets name dropped. It is a shame this plot point from the last one gets done away with. A lot of cool stories could take place with that concept, but the writers explain why all the dinosaurs around the world died. Even most of the dinosaurs we have come to expect from the series only get minor screen time. Raptors are wasted showing the audience that the new mutant dinosaurs are more powerful, the dilophosaurus is just a brief cameo, and many dinos don’t even make the cut.

The story doesn’t feel creative. Again, a company (this time a pharmaceutical one) wants to exploit dinosaurs and a small team ends up stuck on an island with dinosaurs, except this one steals ideas from the Jurassic World trilogy with mutated, experimental dinosaurs. The downside is that these new monster dinos aren’t as creative as the ones from the Chris Pratt movies. The big “scary” one looks like a T-Rex mixed with a beluga whale and when he finally shows up he doesn’t end up being worse than anything else the characters have faced. He is just big.

A few positive points: Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali are great, as they usually are. There is a great sequence with a T-rex chasing people down a river which feels like a scene that is in the original book. Outside of this there wasn’t much to get excited about. I got a bit border and played on my phones at one point.

This one ranks at the very bottom of the Jurassic Park and World movies.