How to Make Us Swallow Dinosaur Movies

It's funny that Jurassic World: Rebirth start with the premise that dinosaurs are out of fashion. As if the seventh installment of the franchise Jurassic Park was aware that dinosaur movies… have also gone out of fashion. In the first installment, in 1993, Steven Spielberg successfully reinvented the concept of blockbuster familiar, the sense of wonder and the possibilities of special effects (the diapers of CGI). Now many years ago the Jurassic saga has become a churrería of expensive movies without juice or heat, a catalog of predictable installments with no capacity to leave you speechless and an example of computer generated images in the worst sense: without the capacity for imagination or dream of.

With this backpack, little would be expected a priori of Jurassic World: Rebirth, Although the return of the always effective David Koepp to the script lit some spark of hope. And whether it's Koepp's doing or not, the truth is that in this new chapter of prehistoric beasts in a dystopian present the flame is rekindled. Perhaps to say that is reborn It's a bit much, but it is true that the film avoids dazzling with technical prodigies (in fact, the lizards are rather ugly) and goes to the core of the genuine adventure story. Taking ideas from different sources (kaiju Japanese, The Island of Doctor Moreau tomb Raider, Aliens and, of course, The Lost World), the new Jurassic World, despite having ups and downs, it cannot be denied that it is moving forward. Beyond the (inevitable?) amusement park moments, director Gareth Edwards has managed to restore a certain narrative depth to the Jurassic saga with a classicist maneuver similar to that of Rogue One, another notable exploitation of a franchise that Edwards himself directed in 2016.

[See the screenings in Catalan version in this link.]