Chris Pratt has a few ridiculous moments in this movie. This is not one of them. Universal Studios and Amblin Entertainment, Inc. and Legendary Pictures…
Chris Pratt has a few ridiculous moments in this movie. This is not one of them.
Universal Studios and Amblin Entertainment, Inc. and Legendary Pictures Productions
Warning: There are spoilers ahead for “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.”
There’s no denying the “Jurassic World” sequel is a ridiculous, silly popcorn movie. It’s a fun movie and you’ll have a good time watching it. But boy, are there some truly ridiculous moments in this movie.
Chris Pratt jumps through the jaws of a T. Rex and beats down a bunch of bad men single-handedly. And then there’s the whole beginning of the movie.
The far-fetched moments are what make us love these movies. We’re not supposed to take them seriously. But when you get down to it, there are some really silly things in this movie that we need to discuss. Come on this journey with us.
One of the sequel’s bizarre moments is when Owen easily takes down about a dozen or so men at the Lockwood Estate. At some point, the man who ran off to live with nature and build himself a cabin in the woods became an expert at defensive combat.
And he’s not just punching people in the face. He’s dodging electrified wands, knocking others out, and flipping people over. Did I miss this in the first movie or are all raptor trainers just really good at fending off bad men in the name of saving reptiles?
When Maisie is locked inside her room against her will, she takes it upon herself to scale the Lockwood estate to get to her grandfather. Somehow the child manages to not slip or fall while treating the house like her personal jungle gym.
Maisie looks like she’s done this a million times before, and I can’t imagine that’s the case.
One of the film’s funniest moments comes when Owen is left for dead in the jungle.
He’s been shot with a tranquilizer dart meant for dinosaurs and is left paralyzed on the island floor. He can’t move an inch to save himself when a triceratops climbs over him to lick his face, but the moment lava comes, he suddenly regains some motion in his limbs. He then pulls himself limb by limb over a log and merely avoids getting touched by lava.
How was he able to fight off the effects of a tranquilizer dart that easily? Was he experiencing an adrenaline rush?
An unnamed man starts off the movie on Isla Nublar. His teammates leave him for dead when they spot a T. Rex nearby. Against all odds, the man jumps and catches a drop ladder from a helicopter. Naturally, the T. Rex also latches on. It seems like the man is done for, but then the T. Rex breaks off part of the ladder.
Just when he appears to be in the clear, the Mosasaurus, the giant whale dinosaur from 2015’s “Jurassic World,” jumps up out of the ocean to devour him whole. Of course, it just happened to be there at the same time. All in all, this is actually a really fun moment.
The gyrosphere holding Claire and Franklin falls off a cliff, and water slowly fills it as it sinks to the bottom of the ocean. Very slowly.
Somehow there’s enough time for the immensely small gyropshere to fill up entirely with water as Owen swims back and forth several times to help the two break out of the vehicle. He tries prying at it and shooting it, but finally uses a knife to wedge a door panel off and get them to freedom.
It’s almost comical. You could imagine an “SNL” skit with Pratt coming back 10 more times trying various ways to open the stubborn gyrosphere. Meanwhile, other dinosaurs are literally drowning.
It’s not just dinosaurs anymore. If you thought Maisie was related to one of the characters from the original movie, you were wrong. It turned out Benjamin Lockwood had a clone of his dead daughter made, and that’s Maisie.
As much as viewers may not have seen the twist coming, it almost felt like the movie was jumping the shark a bit. We signed up to watch a movie about dinosaurs, not one about human clones.
It may be believable to jump a motorcycle or a small vehicle off the end of a boardwalk to make it onto a cargo ship, but a giant truck had viewers chuckling in disbelief. Not only did its landing look far-fetched, but it was difficult to believe that no one working on the ship noticed a giant thump of a truck fleeing onto the truck.
OK. It’s tough to beat out a human clone, but Chris Pratt’s character literally tucked and rolled through a T. Rex jaw without getting as much as a scratch. We know he’s a raptor trainer, but none of those sharp teeth even grazed your shirt?
Come on. He should have been dino lunch.
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