John Wilson / Amblin Entertainment / Universal Decades on, of course the creatures would get little more than a shrug. Twenty-nine years have passed since the release of Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park, which saw scientists such as Alan Grant (played by Sam Neill) behold the return of dinosaurs with sheer childlike wonder. But I’m not sure audiences fork over money at the box office to enjoy some sound logic I certainly prefer any Jurassic movie to have a healthy amount of humans getting elaborately chomped on by prehistoric reptiles. To him, sound logic supports the idea that dinosaurs would blend into Earth’s contemporary environments rather than take them over. Writer and director Colin Trevorrow, who made the original Jurassic World in 2015, has returned to the franchise after the uniquely warped The Book of Henry. Now they’re nothing more than part of the scenery. The kind of pests you might call your local wildlife department about, as you peek out your window onto the backyard and say with a sigh, “Honey, there’s another pack of Compsognathus trampling the daffodils.” Anyone heroic enough to remember the last Jurassic World movie, Fallen Kingdom, might recall that it ended with herds of dinosaurs finally escaping their island paddock, free to rampage and terrorize the globe. In Jurassic World: Dominion, a fate worse than extinction has cruelly visited the cloned dinosaurs that have been roaming on silver screens since 1993: They’ve become mundane.
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