#71 - Jurassic World - Fallen Kingdom (Jurassic Parkathon)

Jurassic World was one of the better Jurassic Park films. It created a visual spectacle using up to date visual effects technology, and created a new tale of man vs Dinosaur in a way we hadn’t seen before. Is it highly flawed? Absolutely but it was a step in the right direction for the franchise, unfortunately it’s the wrong lessons that were learned from it, as we nosedive into the inferior sequel: Fallen Kingdom

Fallen Kingdom had only 2 of the original 4 writers of Jurassic World: Derek Connolly and Colin Trevorrow. Amanda Silver and Rick Jaffa are currently doing the writing for the live action Mulan movie, and Avatar 3. Good luck to them, I guess

Colin Trevorrow stood down from directing this time with duties instead coming to J A Boyena… He’s not massively experienced but he did A Monster Calls which I really, really like, so it’s a good choice in principle.

The movie made a mint at the box office, $1.3bn on a budget of less than $200m, but received a mixed response from both critics and audiences with 48 and 49% Rotten Tomatoes ratings respectively and average scores of 5.46/10 and 3.2/5. You can guess I’m firmly in the not liking it category, but here’s a rundown of the plot to explain my reasons why.