Amph "Life finds a way" - Jurassic World (Now: Rebirth)

It's actually a valid in-universe theme, though. In the first movie, they mention that they filled in missing spots in the code with frog DNA, in order to get a complete animal. Dr. Wu points this out in Jurassic World, when he's kind of chastising people for being upset when the Indominus Rex turns out to be "too dangerous". He and the other scientists had been directed to make a larger and scarier dinosaur to thrill newer parkgoers, and the name is obviously created around that desire too. Chris Pratt's character Owen Grady also references all of this and laughs at the ridiculous name when he hears it.

Still, though, this new one here looks especially dumb and makes me wish they hadn't revisited that theme at this much later point in the story.

 

This really has turned into the worst franchise.

 

Yeah...this is a hard pass for me.

Not even inclined to stream it presently.

And I'm a Scarjo fan.

What that trailer feels like...is they wanted to make an "R" rated Jurassic Park.

It did feel like an Alien or Godzilla trailer at times.

It may work out for them. But it doesn't work for me.

 

I like the trailer!

But I'm easy to please with this franchise. People overthink it. The point is just an excuse to see people interacting with dinosaurs who have really cool special effects. As long as the movies remember that, they're good (something the last two strayed from, but they're still dinosaur movies).


If people want this franchise to die, you need another Dinosaur franchise that does the same thing in a different way:

* Maybe something like the premise of the old show Terra Nova (time-travel to an alternate Earth back in the Mesozoic era, to colonize for resources... but it didn't have the special effects, and had too many generic/made-up dinosaurs).

* Or Dinotopia, this time more faithful to the books, the idea of a "lost continent" in another alternate Earth (but close enough to our own, and Dinotopia was cool by being steampunk-era, being interesting on its own plus avoiding the "cell phone" issue.)

* Another option could be within the MCU, since it's not in there yet but they have the Savage Land. This is more likely to happen than the former two, but we all probably want the former two more than this option.

Agree overall, but I see a lot of familiar "real dinosaurs" in this too, ones we haven't had featured yet, which should make up for it.