CIMPLE – A Curious Introvert's Musings & Photos about Life and Enjoyment

Jurassic World is one of those movies where you find yourself sitting in the movie theater as the credits begin to roll at the end of the movie shaking your head and saying wow.  Chris Pratt (wow); Dinosaurs (wow); Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard (it took awhile, but by the end of the movie – wow); Chris Pratt on a motorcycle following his team of Velociraptors (Wow) and the final dinosaur showdown (WOW).  In between all the WOW factors, you have the story of the Jurassic Park dinosaur theme park opened 22 years after the failed attempt by John Hammond (the late Richard Attenborough) in a new corporate world defined by profit and the next big thing (in this case, a really scary big thing).  As Clair Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) tells Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) early in the movie, “corporate felt genetic modification would up the wow factor” and Grady replies “they’re dinosaurs, wow enough.”  Soon enough, the scientific genetic experiments to create a new dinosaur to increase attendance and attract corporate sponsors begins to go horribly wrong with thousands of visitors in the park, including Clair’s two nephews, Gray (Ty Simpkins) and Zach (Nick Robinson).  In the midst of trying to contain the dinosaur disaster in the making and find her nephews, Grady and Clair have their hands full dealing with a CEO, Simon Masrani (Irrfan Khan), wanting to be part of the action, a questionable security force led by Vic Hoskins (Vincent D’Onofrio), a scientist, Dr. Henry Wu (B.D. Wong), justifying his creation, a quirky computer technician (Jake Johnson), and Grady’s team of Barry (Omar Sy), Delta, Charlie, Echo, and Blue (Velociraptors).  In his first direction of a summer blockbuster, Colin Trevorrow does a superb job and with Steven Spielberg as an Executive Producer there are many moments that pay wonderful homage to the previous Jurassic movies (the music, old Jurassic Park buildings and signs, a classic Jurassic Park t-shirt bought on eBay, Wrangler Jeeps, and the bird-cage).  It is natural to compare movies in a franchise series and, as a fan of the Jurassic Park trilogy, I am happy to say that Jurassic World is not only a welcome addition, but hopefully the beginning of the next chapter.