{"id":22011,"date":"2018-06-08T15:36:35","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T05:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=22011"},"modified":"2018-10-08T15:36:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T05:36:50","slug":"jurassic-park-fallen-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=22011","title":{"rendered":"Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Director:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>J.A Bayona
\nWriters:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Derek Connolly, Colin Trevrow
\nCast:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Rafe Spall, Jeff Goldblum<\/p>\n

S<\/span>ometimes, I think we forget how much people\u00a0love<\/em> dinosaurs.<\/p>\n

Jurassic Park<\/em> remains one of the biggest franchises in the world.\u00a0 It’s right up there with the Marvel super hero movies and\u00a0Star Wars<\/em>.\u00a0 Despite only really having a single genuinely beloved film in a series of five,\u00a0Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom<\/em> launched to mixed reviews…and over a BILLION dollars at the box office.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0Fallen Kingdom<\/em>,\u00a0the film begins with the U.S senate debating whether the dinosaurs on Isla Nublar from\u00a0Jurassic World<\/em> should be allowed to perish.\u00a0 Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum playing a role that was hugely overstated in the trailer) argues that they should be allowed to become extinct once more as nature originally intended.\u00a0 Naturalists, such as Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) believe they should be given a chance to live.\u00a0 When the senate sides with Malcolm, Claire is contacted by Benjamin Lockwood, the partner of John Hammond, the original founder of the park.\u00a0 Lockwood forms a stealth operation to help rescue the animals and recruits the aid of Claire and Owen Grady (Chris Pratt).\u00a0 As the trailer blatantly gives away, this is actually a ruse by Lockwood’s evil assistant to sell the dinosaurs off to wealthy businessmen and evil heads of state as weapons of mass destruction.<\/p>\n

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Its always interesting when studios go with an unconventional directorial choice for a blockbuster franchise, instead of the usual suspects like Jon Favreau or James Wan.\u00a0 In the case of\u00a0Fallen Kingdom<\/em>, Universal chose to go with J.A Bayona who previously made the excellent films\u00a0The Orphanage<\/em> and\u00a0The Impossible<\/em>, neither of which suggested a career in making Hollywood franchise films.\u00a0 Sometimes with these types of directorial gambles, it pays off handsomely – think Alfonso Cuaron with\u00a0Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban<\/em> or Taika Waititi with\u00a0Thor Ragnarok<\/em>, where the personality and style of the director shines throughout the film.\u00a0 But you can also end up with films like\u00a0Avengers: Age of Ultron<\/em>, a Joss Whedon film with virtually none of his trademark qualities apparent in the final product.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, Bayona is able to make\u00a0Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom<\/em> his own.\u00a0 I think he has a pretty good sense of how to get the pacing and snappy dialogue right for a good\u00a0Jurassic Park<\/em> film, whilst stamping his own unique footprint on the final product.\u00a0 He gives the franchise its first memorable shot since the original film, when he captures a lone brontosaurus, stranded on an island about to be consumed by volcanic ash.\u00a0 It’s an unexpectedly moving moment and gives the film some poignancy that few would have expected.<\/p>\n

The rest of\u00a0Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom\u00a0<\/em>is pretty standard fare, as Owen and Claire form a ragtag band of dino-lovers to rescue them from the Lockwood estate.\u00a0 The action comes in thick and fast, as does the zingers and one liners from Pratt and Howard.\u00a0 To be honest, I was a pretty happy camper with what I got.\u00a0 I like seeing over-confident bad guys stepping into raptor cages.\u00a0 I like that moment when the heroes seem outmatched only for a T-Rex to stomp into the frame.\u00a0 I’m sure there’s plenty of people who’ve had their fill of the\u00a0Jurassic Park<\/em> formula but not me.<\/p>\n

Jurassic Park<\/em> remains a hugely popular franchise but it always seemed to be stuck in a narrative holding pattern.\u00a0 Exactly how many times could a naive billionaire create a park full of dinosaurs and hope that everything works out well this time?\u00a0 Well,\u00a0Fallen Kingdom<\/em> seems to have a pretty good answer for that.\u00a0 Although it absolutely feels like the middle chapter in a franchise and doesn’t really have an ending, it does close out with probably the biggest narrative development in the series and one that bodes well for an interesting and fresh new direction for future Jurassic Park<\/em> films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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