Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Review

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is surprisingly an entertaining film that takes franchising very seriously. When I saw the first trailer for Fallen Kingdom, I was intrigued and excited, contrary to many gung-ho Jurassic Park fans, I liked the first Jurassic World. It might have been my nostalgia for the films, or my childlike desire to ride in a gyroscopic mobile alongside Gallimimus…Gallimimai?? Either way, I was all about the park, the old movie set references, and the corny dino moments. The second trailer that was released for Fallen Kingdom had me skeptical – dinosaurs creeping into girls’ bedrooms, terrorizing people in a suburban setting, I was like – have we learned nothing from Lost World? I was prepared for a horrendous mistake in the Jurassic genre. Alas – I was pleasantly entertained by the storyline, dinosaur involvement, and slight references to the first film – Jurassic Park that is. You have to go into the movie remembering that this is a franchise film series. It is not the first awe inspiring film that mesmerized us with living dinosaurs and movie technology never seen before on film. It’s not about first advances in modern science that argue whether it can bring new knowledge to society, or if it can bring doom to us all. It was more about how excessive we have become in war profiteering and how we basically want to doom ourselves, so let’s have fun watching Malcolm aka Jeff Goldblum’s character be right. Plus, the addition of the Lost World premise of auc…