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Now that dinosaurs are just, like,out there… what happens next?
Why should we care about dinosaurs showing up somewhere since dinosaurs are effectively everywhere?
How can the suspense escalate in interesting ways when these prehistoric creatures have become mere background noise?
Sadly,Jurassic World: Dominionappears to have found the answer in not making a dinosaur movie at all.
The scientists are just an excuse to have the dinosaurs not vice versa.
There are many other thingsJurassic World: Dominionassumes.
The previousJurassic Worldmovies did generate tankerloads of money, so perhaps such assumptions were fair ones to make.
Owen and Claire are, after all, the heroes of this trilogy.
(Have you ever seen an Owen Grady lunch box?
I sure havent.)
Its frantic yet lifeless, chaotic yet pro forma.
A thorough lack of care emanates from the screen.
At times, one can see what director Colin Trevorrow and his collaborators were attempting.
But the solution reveals the depths of the problem.
InDominion, its an offhand, blink-and-youll-miss-it gag, but its symptomatic of the movies broader issues.
Which is a bizarre thing to say, because these movies are supposed to be nothing but wow factors.
The only wow factor inJurassic World: Dominionis the awesome depth of its failure.
