I can't pretend I have no love for these films, then – stick a dinosaur on a screen and my heart still flutters. It's the thrills without the moralising, and it at least delivers the thrills well – the 'birdcage' scene is among the series' action at its best. It makes many of the same mistakes listed above, but does so almost unashamedly, as if it acknowledges that the original can't be topped and that, really, all audiences are here for now is the dinosaurs – of which it squeezes as many in as possible, back-to-back, breathlessly, into a 92 minute run time. It's an unpopular opinion, but it's Jurassic Park III that I have the most love for among the sequels. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom reframes the franchise as a straight-up horror movie – conceptually interesting, but dull in execution and (as excellently analysed in this Film School Rejects piece), sees the majesty and enormity of the creatures contained by formulaic framing. Jurassic World literally introduces a Frankenstein mash-up dinosaur – as if the real deal isn't compelling enough. The muddled Jurassic Park: Lost World devolves into a lowest-common denominator monster movie with its San Diego T-Rex rampage finale. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom took the franchise in a new, but ultimately disappointing, direction.
Whereas Jurassic Park urged respect in the presence of the natural world, and balanced the awe and dignity of these behemoths of time with the horror their ferocity (and man's intervention) could inspire, the sequel's, somewhat ironically, abuse them as theme park thrills. Jeff "Ian Malcolm" Goldblum's oft-quoted line could have been directed at the sequel makers themselves: "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should." It’s as if they were unable to follow the philosophy that the original movie laid out.
The sins of the Jurassic Park sequels are many – perhaps not as egregious as those that have befallen other tentpole blockbuster franchises, like Star Wars or The Terminator films.īut following Steven Spielberg's initial foray into ancient natural history, it's been a case of diminishing returns not only for Spielberg, but the directors that followed him with sequels of their own: Joe Johnston, Colin Trevorrow and J.
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