Obligatory disclaimer: real life sucks. Therefore, I looked at the upcoming JWR movie trailer, (due to come in summer 2025 for now), and it was something else.
What is it, then? A recycled chimera, pun intended.
…Well, a recycled and a rebooted chimera, to be fair. In the 2022 film,
‘Dominion’, there were non-avian dinosaurs, (as well as other prehistoric
reptiles) all over the Earth once more, and as the mini-movie ‘Battle of the
Big Rock’ showed, the JP/W franchise was going with this setting once more.
Time passed, not so much within that universe, as
within our real world, and in the ‘Rebirth’ film the non-avian dinosaurs have
largely disappeared from our planet again, with just a few select populations
within the tropical (and the subtropical?) belt. Put otherwise, this is the
situation with had in the second and third Jurassic
Park films, where non-avian dinosaurs lived only a couple of ex-lab sites’
islands and nowhere else. The franchise tried re-running itself in a new
direction with the second and especially the third Jurassic World film and now that that trilogy is done, they are returning to the original setting –
modern world, restrained dinosaurs. Pause.
In the trailer, both the mosasaur and the
pterosaurs, (reminiscent of the RL Tapejara or some similar species), are
hanging around the island site as well. Why? While the dinosaurs- while the non-avian dinosaurs are restrained by air and sea, the mosasaur can swim all over the
globe, while the pterosaurs are fliers. Period. They can go anywhere they want,
but they are here, because the movie’s plot is vintage RPG: go there, I know
not where, bring back what, I know not. In this case, it is the DNA of the
three biggest dinosaur species on the site so that a miracle cure can be made.
Didn’t we see something similar in the ‘Dominion’ movie with Maisie and co.? We
did, but in ‘Rebirth’ trailer, there are no mention of Owen, Claire, Maisie,
Blue, or Beta, so odds are that they will not be mentioned in the actual movie
either. Continuity? What continuity?
The new characters are your run-of-the-mill modern
stereotypes: a warrior woman, an intelligent and sensitive scholar man, and
another man, who is the modern P.O.C. sidekick; (the other two are WASPs, or
can pass for them). Together, the three of them must compete the quest, or…
they will die, and their superiors will send a new team, most likely. Somehow,
‘Rebirth’ makes ‘Naruto’ (anime and manga) look like a masterpiece, in the
terms of the plot…
Anything else? Ah, yes, the actual chimera
(chimeras) of the movie – the hybrid/mutant dinosaurs. Somehow, ever since the
first JW film, the JP franchise was fiddling with hybrid/mutant dinosaurs in
its’ games and like, and now, after a pause in the third JW film, (no
mutant/hybrid reptiles there), we’re back with them. The regular theropod
dinosaurs (aka most of the dinosaur carnivores) are no longer enough…
Therefore, to recap, we got a JP/W movie that has a
recycled plot (from several previous films, but still), clichéd/stereotypical
characters, and completely unrealistic monsters. By contrast, the original MC
novels that started it all were at least trying to be informational, (if not
educational), and entertaining. How it all has ended! As a direct opposite of
what it once has been, that is how…
For now though, this is it. See you all soon!
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