Category: Bad

Messages and Meaning

Jurassic World: Rebirth has only one goal—to discredit the franchise it belongs to. The film offers us absolutely nothing new; on the contrary, it constantly imitates scenes from the previous films, but done worse and stripped of their meaning. The characters are shallow and stupid, the plot is twisted and meaningless, and ideas are completely absent, except for the occasional mention that humans are scoundrels.

Jurassic World: Rebirth systematically strips away the dignity of all the dinosaurs emblematic of the franchise and offers us a vulgar mix of corporate interests and genetically modified monsters, completely forgetting the spirit of Jurassic Park. And while the previous few films also had their serious problems, none of them hit rock bottom morally with the force that Jurassic World: Rebirth does.

Plot

The plot continues the madness with mutated monsters instead of dinosaurs—an idea that has always been terrible and hated by everyone. Armed soldiers head to an island full of monsters in pursuit of a cash reward. What on earth does this have to do with Jurassic Park?

The second plotline is no less absurd, presenting us with a random family on vacation who choose to sail near a restricted area teeming with deadly beasts. Why not…

Nothing in the story makes any sense. On one hand, mercenaries who decide to release dinosaur DNA into the world without being able to imagine the consequences, and on the other, an annoying family that just hangs around in various scenes without contributing anything.

The dinosaurs are practically absent, and any character with more than two lines of dialogue cannot be killed because they are either a child, a father, or possess indispensable skills without which the plot cannot continue. Thus, all the characters are categorically out of danger, and every attempt at suspense is a total failure.

Characters

There are no characters to speak of, and there’s nothing to say about them. Not a single character, not a single person we can describe in any specific way. The mercenary, the scholar, the annoying family, the villain – that’s it.

Important details

• The scene where the T- Rex chases the inflatable boat is pretty sad. First of all, it has no real consequences. And second, it’s the only scene featuring the T. rex that’s been overlooked and portrayed as useless.

• The scene with the package that destroys the entire security system is disastrous and obviously intentionally made to be that bad. First, no one would eat in the middle of a lab; second, no scientist would let the packaging fall; third, why would it getting sucked into the ventilation in the doors block the system? A problem that could easily have been solved with a simple earthquake, if anyone had bothered.

• D-Rex. A hideous mutant that definitely doesn’t belong in the world of these movies. It’s presented to us as a monster unlike anything we’ve seen before, but in reality, it doesn’t appear in the film until the very end, when it devours only the villain, all while moving in slow motion the entire time.

• The scene where the flying mutated raptor kills the velociraptor is utterly pathetic. It’s a scene that exists for the sole purpose of humiliating the velociraptors, who have always been the main characters in the Jurassic universe. A repulsive and absurd scene that betrays everything these films stand for.

Films in the series: Jurassic Park The Lost World: Jurassic Park