Jurassic World Rebirth (2025)

 

If you can get rid of most of the stupid things in the Jurassic Park Franchise, synthesize most of the best action beats, and cast it with a little flair, you will get a movie like this. It exists, it is fun while you watch it, but it is not essential, it does not say anything profound, and it still has plenty of stupidity that is fairly original. 

I don't know that there's much to say about a new Jurassic World film. After all you get dinosaurs chasing people, eating people, and people making sacrifices or showing themselves to be scum. So it's pretty much the same story every time out. The main variations involve the actors people and how are the characters  going to screw each other over. Oh and whether or not the dinosaurs are going to be interesting.

For the most part the dinosaurs in this particular Edition are interesting. The premise of the film has scientists in Pursuit of DNA from three specific varieties of dinosaur. One that is found in the ocean, one that is found on the land, and big surprise one that flies in the sky. That seems to set up a pretty straightforward path for our adventurers to travel.

Scarlett Johansson plays a mercenary who is tasked with getting the team there on to the island and then helping them secure the live DNA samples that they need. She has a team of Misfits, many of whom are really just food for the dinosaurs, an evil Overlord who is there to exploit nature, so we get some moral story included. And then there's a random family of shipwreck survivors who get included in the Expedition so that we can have kids and people who aren't used to carrying around heavy weaponry.

It's all creative enough fun to kill a Saturday afternoon in the summertime. There is a little bit of tie in to previous variations of the series. For instance we start off in Manhattan with a brachiosaur slowly expiring in a local park. There's a mild climate change theme, it mostly goes nowhere except to justify a trip to the equator. Marashala Ali is Johansson's Main support, and he's a good actor who is wasted in a largely thankless part. When we get to the climax of the film, we get the stupidest third act twist imaginable, and whatever suspension of disbelief we had up to this point is lost.

Anyway go ahead and turn off your brain, get yourself an extra large soda and don't worry if you have to run to the bathroom during the movie, you're not going to miss anything important. Because there's nothing really important here, just some fun watching dinosaurs chase and eat people.