The tease of the T-Rex running around San Diego in the second film had always hinted at the natural way to continue the series: The dinosaurs escaping into the human world. With the volcanic eruption of Mount Sibo, not only do you get an apocalyptic action set-piece unlike any the series has seen before, but it also forces the movie (and any further sequels) to never again lean on Isla Nublar as a crutch. It sounds so simple, but it winds up being a far more elegant solution than it has been given credit for. Fallen Kingdom Wrote a Check That Dominion Refuses to Cash.Jurassic World Failed Thanks to the Cynicism of the People Who Built It.Jurassic Park III Feels Like a Sequel From a Bygone Era.The Lost World Is Steven Spielberg’s Most Profoundly Okay Movie.How Jurassic Park Scored the Monopoly on Dinosaur Movies.More on the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World Series This time out, the Jurassic Park story was in dire need of a shakeup.įallen Kingdom’s solution? Literally blow up the island. Considering the series was now on the fifth installment, having people getting chased by dinosaurs around the same two (!) tropical islands again was no longer a viable option. It’s part of what marred Lost World, it’s absolutely what tanked Jurassic Park 3, and Jurassic World only got away with it because seeing a fully functional park was new. For way too long, the movies were content to stick with what worked before in terms of content and setting. As we’ve discussed as far back as our revisit of The Lost World, part of the issue with the Jurassic Park franchise is that it struggled for a long time to change up its formula.
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