Dino-might!
Monster fun, with climate warning bite
WITH new dinosaurs, plot twists and incredible special effects, the latest Jurassic Park movie is set to be a truly monster hit.
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom For super-fans of the movie franchise, you can buy the Indoraptor Dino Villain Set for €34.20 or, if you really want to push the boat out, a Lego Jurassic World Maisie and Indoraptor Play Set for €137.25.
You can also get everything from your very own dinosaur masks and duvets to T-rex toilet-roll holders and even wall stickers that make it appear as though a dinosaur has crashed through your bedroom wall. roars into cinemas today, three years after the franchise was brought back from extinction with Chris Pratt.
So here we get our teeth stuck into the new movie – and reveal what makes it another T-rex-sized treat. Guardians of the Galaxy star Chris Pratt reprises his role as former dinosaur trainer Owen Grady, alongside Bryce Dallas Howard’s Claire Dearing, who now works as a dinosaur-rights activist.
But the star getting everyone excited is Jeff Goldblum, who returns as Dr Ian Malcolm, 21 years after the first Jurassic Park sequel The Lost World, in 1997.
The Fly legend Jeff, 65, said: “I was thrilled to be asked to return to this beautiful production empire because they’ve always been so sweet to me.”
Goldblum kept busy fighting aliens in Independence Day: Resurgence. By the way, the film’s tag-line “Life Finds a Way,” is one of his quotes from the 1993 original. PREPARE yourself for prehistoric pandemonium in this stomping sequel to 2015’s monster blockbuster, with all the spectacular dino action you could hope for.
This latest adventure is set three years later as a very angry volcano blows its top.
Bryce Dallas Howard returns as Claire, the former Jurassic World park manager and Jurassic Park blew people away in 1993 with its special effects mix of CGI and animatronics.
But while 2015’s Jurassic World created a world just as epic, it relied almost entirely on CGI, with just one animatronic dino in the whole film.
This time, they’ve gone back to being more old-school as British special effects artist Neal Scanlan reveals they are using a lot more animatronics alongside the computer effects.
The team even built a full-size T-rex, along with animatronic models of the Velociraptor Blue and the Indoraptor. The model of Blue needed 15 puppeteers hidden below to move cable levers and control the mechanisms to bring her to life.
Neal said: “Like a dance team, we’re not thinking about the individual steps. We’re just doing it. You’re thinking about it in a much more consuming way, like, ‘can you make her more aggressive? Can you make her more agitated? Can she breathe more heavily?’”
They gave actress Bryce Dallas Howard, 37, a genuine fright. “It looks real – I couldn’t help but freak out all of the time on set,” she said. It’s going to be awkward for Bryce. Fallen Kingdom comes out two weeks after her dad Ron Howard’s Star Wars film, Solo – which opened to disappointing figures and will be eclipsed by Jurassic World. Bryce confessed she grows more confident as shooting goes on, explaining: “I always clock when I’m past the halfway mark because I think, ‘it would be expensive to fire me now’.” Co-star Chris, 38, added: “You can tell. She becomes a nightmare. Guess who’s three hours’ late today?”
Chris split from his wife of eight years, Anna Faris, after the five-month shoot in Hawaii and the UK. He said: “It’s not ideal, but I think both of us are probably doing better.”
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (12A)
now a dinosaur-rights activist, but this time with appropriate footwear. Alongside, Chris Pratt riffs on his wisecracking action-man persona familiar from Avengers: Infinity War.
After saving dinosaurs from the island inferno in a terrifically exciting sequence, we’re ushered to a secluded US mountain
mansion, where the movie becomes a suspenseful gothic horror nightmare.
We’re introduced to the Indoraptor, a smart and lethal hybrid dinosaur. But it’s not the only predator around, with greed bringing out the worst nature of humans.
The dinosaurs become a coded warning for man-made climate change, making it a fresh, funny bite of popcorn entertainment.