Jurassic World Dominion (2022)

Four years after Isla Nublar was destroyed, dinosaurs now live—and hunt—alongside humans all over the world. This fragile balance will reshape the future and determine, once and for all, whether human beings are to remain the apex predators on a planet they now share with history’s most fearsome creatures.

Not sure why so many are so incredibly unhappy with this movie . . .

It was a total fantasy-trip of a dinosaur movie, with some original cast members, & new – and it contained all the requisite suspense stuff, lots of dinosaurs, lots of crazy people complicent in dinosaur-manipulation-insanity. It was entertaining, and pretty much worth a Redbox movie night, but possibly not a $30 theater experience unless you like this sort of thing on the big screen with big sound.

I was never a big fan of any sort of monster movie, going back to Godzilla, King Kong, or Jurassic Park.

What I AM a fan of – is an entertaining movie and this one pretty much fits that bill, In spite of the fact that I know there’s going to be several dozen levels of suspensful moments involving staring at dinosaurs approaching, and dinosaur roars & breath being crammed down my throat. It’s ok. That’s the genre.

My one (slight) disappointment was that Jeff seems to have lost a lot of his quirkiness.

The only other thing that truly irks me is the trivia page for this movie. ENDLESS, repetitive, over long trivia – more than half commenting on the Twitter feeds of the actors, their interviews, all about how insanely hyped they were to do the movie, be with original cast members, the schedule, dealing with covid, blah, blah, blah. As well as too many repetitive, over-long trivia items about how the director wanted the dinosaurs to be portrayed the same as all wild animals that exist.

I think the trivia for this movie is probably in the top 5 for one of the longest trivia pages for any movie, and it definitely broke a record for meaningless, redundancy, and I dare say, it’s an awful lot of trivia for such an unpopular movie. Noting here that most long trivia pages are found with highly popular movies, and there the trivia is much more interesting.

Meanwhile I give this a 6 for a movie night of fair-to-middlin’, totally expected content, worth the popcorn & coke.