Review | Film review: Jurassic World - dinosaurs return, bigger than ever
Fourth instalment in Jurassic Park series is a 3D spectacle with lively characters and plenty of humour
good old days in 1993 when only a few people got eaten by CGI dinosaurs and yet the whole of Hollywood shook in terror and awe? The world has moved on since Steven Spielberg's classic Jurassic Park to embrace — or, perhaps, get stuck with — a new generation of comic-book and disaster movies that wipe out entire cities and ratchet up unthinkable body counts just because they can.
It is with tacit awareness of this customary recourse to special effects artistry — and the mediocrity of 1997's The Lost World: Jurassic Park and 2001's Jurassic Park III — that Spielberg, as an executive producer, gives Jurassic World a self-reflexive spin. Directed by Safety Not Guaranteed's Colin Trevorrow, this fourth instalment does well to supplement the 3D spectacle with lively characters and good humour.
It's been 22 years since the first movie's disastrous tour on an island near Costa Rica, and Jurassic World returns to the same location and plot, but updates them to reflect the sensibility of today's audiences. Even though the theme park is fully operational — so much so that children can ride triceratops, and a gigantic mosasaurus leaps from an aquatic amphitheatre to eat a shark every day — the visitors are not impressed.
