Jurassic World is more fun than fright

Bryce Dallas Howard in a scene from the film

Review by Timothy Austin

 

I really wanted to like Jurassic World. As a wide-eyed teenager watching the original Jurassic Park (1993) for the first time opened a new world of entertainment. As impossible as the concept seemed, the depiction of humans interacting with long extinct dinosaurs was done with great tact and poignancy by director Steven Spielberg, who is now Executive Producer of Jurassic World, touted as a sequel to Park, and which returns to Isla Nublar some 20 years later.

Ignoring the death and destruction in the original, and anything that happened in the less successful sequels, the new film depicts