Jurassic World: Rebirth (Gareth Edwards, July 2, 2025) Movie • Page 15

Jurassic Park is my favorite movie. I thought this was pretty terrible.

All of the characters are standard, stock and paper-thin. All of the set pieces felt absolutely weightless, which is a holdover from completely removing animatronics from the equation. Nothing feels real, or tangible. You're watching a cast of nothing characters traverse through a video game. I could go on and on (about the dialogue, the plot contrivances, the blatant rehashing of sequences/note from prior films, the non-stop product placement, the inessential mutants that basically exist to sell new toys). The well is so dry.

I understand the bar is so low following the past three World films, but this is not it. Just a soulless exercise in keeping the money train moving.

I give it some credit for finally doing the raft sequence from Crichton's novel, but that's about it.

 

Jonathan Bailey said there were animatronics used during filming, but it's unclear to what extent or what scenes.

 

I can think of maybe one scene involving his character where that would be the case? But it didn’t seem like it.

 

From Wiki:

 

Interesting— feel free to let me know when you see the movie which sequences you think animatronics were used for, because like I said, I can only think of one sequence involving Jonathan Bailey’s character touching a limb (and I’m not even sure about that). Certainly nothing to the extent of even the World movies, which were already lacking.

I’m pretty surprised by the Aquillops blurb because it seemed entirely CG to me. Not sure if they went over any puppets used after the fact a la the animatronics used for 2011’s The Thing, but my point remains that it never felt like a legitimate animal in the environment.

 

That's good to hear. My expectations are kept well in check, but my only wish is that I enjoy this more than the other World movies (which shouldn't be hard). I'm still pumped to go to the theater and have a good time.

 

Yeah, I went in with low expectations but I thought it was really good. Take that with a grain of salt, I also really like Fallen Kingdom more than probably anyone I've spoken to.

 

I saw a tweet saying the movie goes along well until about 45 minutes in when it adds some other characters that feel like studio notes. That doesn’t sound promising.

 

The baby Dino they’re carrying around definitely feels like that

 

Grogu-ass dino

 

Ugghh. Yep!

 

I rolled my eyes when I saw that thing in the trailer the first time. I've accepted that no matter what they do with the plot and characters, these movies will never NOT have little money-grab things like that placed in solely for merch and toy sales. It feels like an obligation at this point.

 

Exactly how it felt.

 

hit with hammers etc

 

Studio execs don’t understand that half of the Grogu memes were jokes and most of us don’t want to buy the merch

 

It is not about 30 something’s without kids lol

 

Grogu prints money.

 

If only Werner was in this film talking to the animatronic triceratops like it was real. Then you would all be taking it seriously smh