Owen (CHRIS PRATT) with a baby Velociraptor in "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom." When the island?s dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen and Claire (BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD) mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event. Welcome to "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom."
Chris Pratt is back. The dinosaurs are back. But the world around them is changing. Some of that may have to do with a new director – J.A. Bayona – who has a background in horror (The Orphanage, A Monster Calls). Previous director Colin Trevorrow did help write the script (and will return for the next film), as Pratt’s character is joined again by Bryce Dallas Howard’s, as well as Jeff Goldblum’s Dr. Ian Malcolm. For whatever reason, the fifth installment in the world Michael Crichton created is darker – and it’s coming for the mainland!
Jurassic Park/World?movies always seem to bring the audience to a place where human greed and avarice are confronted by human love and compassion, in an arena where the stakes are colossal. This film is no different in asking us to consider what lengths we would go to courageously, or motivated by our egos. Sure, we probably won’t ever go eyeball-to-eyeball with a T. Rex, but we still have to wrestle with our own motivations, and our awareness of how our actions can lead to the suffering (or wellbeing) of others.
The Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Blu-ray combo pack includes Chris Pratt’s Jurassic Journals, plus thoughts from Pratt and Howard, as well as featurettes on “The Kingdom Evolves,” “Rooftop Showdown,” “Monster in a Mansion,” “Start the Bidding,” “Death by Dino,” and “Malcolm’s Return.”
