Even as someone who liked this quite a bit, I really think it should be a stand-alone and not have sequels.
So if they wanted to tease a sequel they should have ended with it being unclear if Duncan lived or not. I thought that’s what they were setting up and my dumb brain was like “oh so in the next one, they’ll discover he is still alive and they will need to go back to save him…”
I had a fun experience seeing it, my youngest daughter loves JP and she decided she was brave enough to go. The film was pretty much what I expected, I liked the numerous callbacks.
Is the product placement worse than the IHOP in Man of Steel? Or Krispy Kreme in Power Rangers? Or Bud Light in the first Whalberg Transformers movie?
have a strange lingering feeling that their plan to prolong human life with dinosaur blood may go awry
To be fair, I think the second Meg movie also understood the assignment re: B-movie monster fun. The only spot where the green screen really showed some seams to me was on the cliffside. Especially when they finally land on the lip of the cave, they moved like little computer Gumbys.