Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom – Movie Thoughts

After my despise for Jurassic World, can this one turn it around?

Box Office Breakdown: Summer 2015

Preface

Hello, hello everybody!
So I’m not a huge numbers guy.
I’m good at math but it isn’t fun to do…
But this summer, there were some really impressive records that were set or broken or both at the domestic and worldwide box office that I want to talk about.
Some of them could merit their own individual posts and others are smaller, so I decided to just summarize them all in this ‘end of summer’ breakdown post.
And these numbers are all subject to change, but as of August 25^th or so, this is what we got.
And I’ll have my Top 10 (yeah, there’s a few more than last year…) Most Anticipated of the Fall coming at you guys real soon too.
But let’s talk numbers!

Preface

Spoiler Alert!
Okay, if you guys haven’t yet seen Jurassic World (which seems impossible seeing how much it made opening weekend) then this post is filled with spoilers.
Usually I’ll say, “hey read my Spoiler-Free Review then check out the movie then check out this review.”
BUT instead, you can still do that if you really want to savor the experience, or you could stay here and read a full Spoiler-Filled Review.
By that I mean, Jurassic World wasn’t the greatest movie in the world, so you could just read some of the particular aspects I had trouble with and still go into the movie knowing that and having a good time.
Either way, if you’ve seen the movie or not, we’re going into Spoiler Territory from here on out!

Preface

Going into this, I wasn’t the HUGEST Jurassic Park fan.
I’m a fan of the first movie but I haven’t seen the second movie and have only seen snippets from the third movie.
The trailers for this got better and better though so I was getting really excited for Jurassic World as its own standalone movie and sequel to Jurassic Park.
And I can successfully say, without a single doubt that well… I’m a little underwhelmed…

Premise

So Jurassic World is the fourth Jurassic Park movie set 20 years or so after the events of the original Jurassic Park.
And now the park has been officially and rebranded as Jurassic “World”.
But tourists are kinda used to all the dinosaurs there so Bryce Dallas Howard’s character who kinda runs the park is in the process of introducing a new, genetically-modified, stronger dinosaur to wow people!
But of course, things are going to go awry when it gets out…