Jurassic World

Tim
Even though it had a number of plot holes, I found that Jurassic World was an entertaining movie that I liked as much as the original Jurassic Park. I don't think this sequel is better, but it is just as good. Simon Masrani might be my favorite character, although Lowery Cruthers, who I consider to be the anti-Nedry, could be a close second. Although I think it is a shame that most of the dinosaurs in the movie and in the Jurassic Park series as a whole are very inaccurate to their real-life counterparts, I still like the dinosaurs and I just imagine that in the Jurassic Park universe, the dino species Utahraptor or the species Deinonychus was named Velociraptor instead. Additionally, the inaccuracy of the dinos in the movies was lampshaded by Dr. Henry Wu in that the dinosaurs at Isla Nublar were never authentic dinosaurs; they had been genetically modified from the start to make them "cooler."

My two biggest complaints with the movie were two very simple plot holes. Beware: these two plot holes are spoilers! You have been warned!

The plot hole that is in my opinion the biggest is that when Claire Dearing and Owen Grady notice that the Indominus rex does not appear to be in its enclosure, Claire goes on a drive and md calls the Jurassic World control center to get them to locate the I. rex using the tracking device that was implanted onto the creature, while Owen and two other guys go inside the paddock to see how the I. rex escaped. Why couldn't Claire have called control from the paddock before anyone went inside and caused an escape that killed dozens of people? This could have prevented the entire story, but that does not justify this plot hole!

The other major plot hole in the movie is that passengers of Jurassic World's gyrospheres are able to pilot the spheres themselves. This should never be! If park visitors can control their gyrospheres instead of the spheres being remotely controlled or controlled by a robot, then the employees of Jurassic World are allowing for the inevitability that visitors will drive into each other, drive into dinosaurs, stay in the gyrospheres for hours without returning to the park, and drive off of the designated gyrosphere course, just as Zach and Gray Mitchell did. There are other inexplicable plot holes in the movie too, such as the I. rex's inconsistent ability to smell, the raptors' inability to choose an allegiance, the fact that the Mosasaur could apparently escape its enclosure any time, and that after the final battle, Rexie the T. rex just leaves and somehow ignores the tasty humans and raptor right by her.

SPOILERS END HERE.

If only there were actually Velociraptors in this movie...

Even with numerous plot holes and a couple of cliché characters who I haven't mentioned but are easy to spot in the film, I still liked Jurassic World and found it very entertaining. The oversized Mososaur, the pterosaurs with abnormally strong legs for pterosaurs, the featherless T. rex, the improbably frilled and venomous Dilophosaurs, and even the terribly named Deinonychus didn't stop my fun with Jurassic World.