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Yahoo
04-08-2025
- Entertainment
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Euronews Culture's Film of the Week: 'Jurassic World Rebirth' – A dino-mite return to form?
While the last few years have been characterised by movie lovers rightfully moaning about superhero fatigue, there is another cinematic ailment that has also taken hold: dino-fatigue. Symptoms include dejected sighs triggered by recalling the lucrative but utterly pants 2015 – 2022 Jurassic World trilogy; the sudden urge to curse Colin Trevorrow's name; and wanting to punch Chris Pratt in his perfect face every time you remember scenes of him holding up the palm of his hand to somehow communicate with raptors. It was high time for someone to step in and give the series the much-needed renaissance it deserved. Enter: Gareth Edwards, whose arresting debut Monsters, ambitious 2014 reboot of the Godzilla franchise and excellent Star Wars prequel Rogue One proved the British filmmaker has the chops to orchestrate a tense thrill ride. More than that, he's not a director who bends under the weight of an existing IP and its accompanying high expectations. Except, in the case of this seventh dinosaur instalment, he stumbles by only delivering everything you'd expect. And not a hell of a lot else. Jurassic World Rebirth picks up after the events of 2022's Jurassic World Dominion. Humans have been forced to co-exist with dinosaurs, and after a few years, everyone's also experiencing dino-fatigue. We see this early on when a billboard depicting T-Rexes gets painted over – a plot point, but also an apt metaphor for the Jurassic franchise as a whole. We meet Martin Krebs (Ruper Friend), a slimy Big Pharma bugger who enlists the services of Special Ops expert Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson), soldier of fortune Duncan Kincaid (Mahershala Ali) and palaeontologist Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey). They are tasked with retrieving biomaterial samples from the three largest remaining dinosaurs: the aquatic Mosasaurus, the avian Quetzalcoatlus, and the land-locked Titanosaurus. Krebs believes that their DNA holds the key to the development of a medical drug capable of curing cardiac disease. How that works, we have no idea. Something about haemoglobin needing to be extracted from living dinos. Anyway, it's going to make him and his company millions. The snag is that these creatures have struggled with the climate and now reside near the equator line, in remote locales reminiscent of the environments where they flourished during the Mesozoic era. So it's off to the dangerous Ile Saint-Hubert they go – where they'll also rescue the shipwrecked Delgado family, whose boat came under attack from a pack of pesky Mosasaures. Despite Gareth Edwards excellent direction, some nifty staging of CG set pieces and a handful of spectacular sequences – chiefly the riverbed encounter with a dozing T-Rex – Jurassic World Rebirth comes off as more of a nostalgic legacyquel than a rejuvenating fresh start. There's nothing wrong with loving Steven Spielberg's 1993 original, but when your reboot feels like a greatest hits compilation rather than its own thing, something's gone wrong somewhere. Worse, original Jurassic Park screenwriter David Koepp – who wowed us this year with and – returns to tick off all the staples expected from a dino romp (breathless chases, nail-biting close calls) but also lumbers his script with eye-rollingly poor exposition, ear-scraping dialogue, a lunatic focus on candy (don't ask), and some very generic characters that only serve as dinosaur fodder. It's genuinely baffling how this feels like a first draft treatment rather than a fully formed ready-to-shoot script – one which should have relegated the Delgado family plotline to the cutting-room floor. Granted, the addition of audience surrogates makes sense, but the hapless family just slows down what should have been a down-to-basics three-part quest. In Jurassic World Rebirth's defence, the obviously rushed production schedule probably didn't help. But much like our qualms with F1® The Movie, everything has to start with a decent script. Had the studio spent a bit more time polishing the screenplay instead of securing an admittedly impressive all-star cast and pushing for a Summer 2024 release slot, this could have been dino-mite. As it stands, Jurassic World Rebirth honours the magic of Spielberg's gamechanging blockbuster but downgrades what could have been a daring revival to a passably entertaining regurgitation. is out in cinemas now. Solve the daily Crossword
Yahoo
06-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
The Wacky Story Behind How Gareth Edwards' Girlfriend Helped Get Him The Jurassic World Rebirth Directing Gig
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Only a select few filmmakers have had the opportunity to direct one of the Jurassic Park movies, like Steven Spielberg or Colin Trevorrow. The latest to join their ranks is Gareth Edwards, who helmed the newly released Jurassic World Rebirth. Directors can come by gigs in a myriad of ways and, sometimes, that happens by way of sheer luck or happenstance. Edwards has a particularly wild story about what led him to join the Jurassic family and, believe it or not, it involves his girlfriend, as he revealed to CinemaBlend. Gareth Edwards has directed some massive movies, like the MonsterVerse's inaugural entry, 2014's Godzilla and the acclaimed Star Wars spinoff Rogue One. Those credits didn't make him a shoo-in for the job, though. However, Edwards has long held affection for the Jurassic universe and, as discussed with CinemaBlend's Hannah Saulic, he channeled that into a four-page analysis of the OG film. Edwards explained that in doing that he was 'trying to take the essence of the story and tell it like it was like a thousand years ago.' The Creator director went on to reveal that his 'campfire story' was actually written a day before he received word about the job. It turns out his girlfriend, who knew that he'd written the paper, found out that another Jurassic World movie was being made and swiftly took action: She saw this news article the next day about Universal looking for a director for Jurassic. And she just, I was on the phone to a friend and my phone went [buzz] you know, and I kind of looked and it was just this link to the article, and I copied and pasted it in a sense, to my agent and just wrote, 'Is this stupid?' Hit send. During that same day, Gareth Edwards heard from his agent, who told him that Universal Pictures and producer Frank Marshall reached out to inquire about him directing. Edwards' agent originally said he wasn't interested because, as the director previously revealed, he intended to take a break. However, as you can guess, Edwards dropped 'everything' to take on the job, leading his agent to reach back out. So I'd say the moral of the story here is to find a partner who's got your back! More on Jurassic World Rebirth Jurassic World Rebirth's Final Cut Was Supposed To Be Under Two Hours. The Studio Note That Changed Things To say that the director had a massive task before him after signing on the dotted line would be putting it mildly. His goal – and those of his collaborators was to infuse the film with the best elements of the franchise. Returning franchise writer David Koepp even compared the movie to Steven Spielberg's 1993 film in several respects. Starring Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey and Mahershala Ali, Rebirth revolves around a covert team who venture to an island to obtain blood samples from dinosaurs for medical purposes. Their expedition is shaken up, however, when they cross paths with a vacationing family and dangerous dinos. Peacock TV: from $7.99 a month/$79.99 a yearThe Jurassic saga is available on Peacock, and fans should consider grabbing a membership. A subscription costs as little as $7.99 a month, but you can also pay even more to receive Peacock Premium. With that, you can enjoy ad-free streams as well as the option to download titles to watch offline at a later Deal With a strong cast and seasoned crew (which included Ridley Scott collaborator John Mathieson as cinematographer), Gareth Edwards had plenty of help in pulling this all off. Due to their combined efforts, Rebirth was met with positive reactions from viewers who screened it early. This all amounts to the realization of a dream for Edwards, who later told CB that 'this is what [he's] always wanted to do.' I'd say his passion and hard work are what landed him the gig though, of course, his girlfriend deserves her share of credit as well. Fans can take their own significant others and/or friends and family members to see Jurassic World Rebirth, which is now playing in theaters and is one of the biggest titles on the 2025 movie schedule. The other six films in the series are also available to stream with a Peacock subscription.
Euronews
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Euronews
Film of the Week: 'Jurassic World Rebirth' – A dino-mite reboot?
While the last few years have been characterised by movie lovers rightfully moaning about superhero fatigue, there is another cinematic ailment that has also taken hold: dino-fatigue. Symptoms include dejected sighs triggered by recalling the lucrative but utterly pants 2015 – 2022 Jurassic World trilogy; the sudden urge to curse Colin Trevorrow's name; and wanting to punch Chris Pratt in his perfect face every time you remember scenes of him holding up the palm of his hand to somehow communicate with raptors. It was high time for someone to step in and give the series the much-needed renaissance it deserved. Enter: Gareth Edwards, whose arresting debut Monsters, ambitious 2014 reboot of the Godzilla franchise and excellent Star Wars prequel Rogue One proved the British filmmaker has the chops to orchestrate a tense thrill ride. More than that, he's not a director who bends under the weight of an existing IP and its accompanying high expectations. Except, in the case of this seventh dinosaur instalment, he stumbles by only delivering everything you'd expect. And not a hell of a lot else. Jurassic World Rebirth picks up after the events of 2022's Jurassic World Dominion. Humans have been forced to co-exist with dinosaurs, and after a few years, everyone's also experiencing dino-fatigue. We see this early on when a billboard depicting T-Rexes gets painted over – a plot point, but also an apt metaphor for the Jurassic franchise as a whole. We meet Martin Krebs (Ruper Friend), a slimy Big Pharma bugger who enlists the services of Special Ops expert Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson), soldier of fortune Duncan Kincaid (Mahershala Ali) and palaeontologist Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey). They are tasked with retrieving biomaterial samples from the three largest remaining dinosaurs: the aquatic Mosasaurus, the avian Quetzalcoatlus, and the land-locked Titanosaurus. Krebs believes that their DNA holds the key to the development of a medical drug capable of curing cardiac disease. How that works, we have no idea. Something about haemoglobin needing to be extracted from living dinos. Anyway, it's going to make him and his company millions. The snag is that these creatures have struggled with the climate and now reside near the equator line, in remote locales reminiscent of the environments where they flourished during the Mesozoic era. So it's off to the dangerous Ile Saint-Hubert they go – where they'll also rescue the shipwrecked Delgado family, whose boat came under attack from a pack of pesky Mosasaures. Despite Gareth Edwards excellent direction, some nifty staging of CG set pieces and a handful of spectacular sequences – chiefly the riverbed encounter with a dozing T-Rex – Jurassic World Rebirth comes off as more of a nostalgic legacyquel than a rejuvenating fresh start. There's nothing wrong with loving Steven Spielberg's 1993 original, but when your reboot feels like a greatest hits compilation rather than its own thing, something's gone wrong somewhere. Worse, original Jurassic Park screenwriter David Koepp – who wowed us this year with Presence and Black Bag – returns to tick off all the staples expected from a dino romp (breathless chases, nail-biting close calls) but also lumbers his script with eye-rollingly poor exposition, ear-scraping dialogue, a lunatic focus on candy (don't ask), and some very generic characters that only serve as dinosaur fodder. It's genuinely baffling how this feels like a first draft treatment rather than a fully formed ready-to-shoot script – one which should have relegated the Delgado family plotline to the cutting-room floor. Granted, the addition of audience surrogates makes sense, but the hapless family just slows down what should have been a down-to-basics three-part quest. In Jurassic World Rebirth's defence, the obviously rushed production schedule probably didn't help. But much like our qualms with F1® The Movie, everything has to start with a decent script. Had the studio spent a bit more time polishing the screenplay instead of securing an admittedly impressive all-star cast and pushing for a Summer 2024 release slot, this could have been dino-mite. As it stands, Jurassic World Rebirth honours the magic of Spielberg's gamechanging blockbuster but downgrades what could have been a daring revival to a passably entertaining regurgitation. Jurassic World Rebirth is out in cinemas now.
Time Magazine
30-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Magazine
Review: Jurassic World Rebirth Finally Makes Dinosaurs the Stars of the Show
The last three entries in the Jurassic Park movie franchise—Jurassic World (2015) and Jurassic World Dominion (2022), both directed by Colin Trevorrow, and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018), from J.A. Bayona—may have been big money-earners at the box office, but they all lacked one essential ingredient: affection, or at least respect, for the very creatures who made them possible in the first place. All three movies are packed with dinosaurs—dinosaurs running, dinosaurs being sad and winsome, dinosaurs showing ruthless disregard for human life. And still, these poor behemoths came off as little more than an afterthought, thunderous, costly background noise for the movies' boring human stars. Somehow, Chris Pratt playing an ace dinosaur whisperer was supposed to be more interesting than the magnificent, mysterious creatures to whom he was whispering—they were left to stumble around in a fog of stiff dialogue and stupid plot twists. What choice did they have? They'd been out of work for years, since 2001's Jurassic Park III. Unlike munchworthy foliage, good roles for dinosaurs don't just grow on trees. But once again these forlorn losers of the extinction lottery have a Hollywood vehicle worthy of them: Jurassic World Rebirth, directed by Gareth Edwards and written by David Koepp (adapted, of course, from ideas originally generated by novelist Michael Crichton), features likable humans as well as some pleasantly cartoonish distasteful ones, and lots of dinosaurs just doing their thing. The movie takes place in a future, or a present, where humans have lost interest in dinosaurs and the theme parks they used to inhabit. Dinosaurs are now just nuisances, doing things like wandering into city traffic at inconvenient times. Most of the remaining beasties now live on remote islands near the equator, and most humans would conveniently like to forget them. But not Rupert Friend's big-pharma schemer Martin Krebs, on a mission to extract dino DNA which will be used in a revolutionary life-saving drug. The DNA can't come from the small, cute, harmless dinosaurs; it must be extracted from the big, drooly ones with the massive choppers, while they're still alive. Krebs hires covert ops specialist Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson) to help with that dirty work, offering her a salary with so many zeroes tacked onto it that she can hardly refuse. Plus, she's still reeling from the recent traumatic loss of a colleague. What better way to recover from heartbreak than to get back to work? As Johansson plays her, Zora is pleasingly smart and ruthless, eager to get the best deal for herself. She's also fearless about facing down seemingly insurmountable circumstances, which is why she makes the big bucks. And she knows the right people: she enlists old friend and cohort Duncan Kincaid (Mahershala Ali), who owns a boat that can get the group to the island where the three hulking dino breeds, bearing the DNA necessary for Krebs' miracle drug, live in relative peace. Krebs and Zora have also secured the services of Dr. Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey), a dreamy paleontologist who loves dinosaurs so much it hurts—at one point, he has the chance to touch the crinkly leg of a live brontosaurus, and it brings tears to his bespectacled eyes. You may be tempted to laugh, but Bailey plays it straight, and is somehow adorable. The adventures of these mercenaries-on-a-mission will dovetail with those of a small family, who were sailing around in the ocean for kicks when an unpleasant prehistoric sea beast overturned their boat. (Dad Reuben is played by Manuel Garcia-Rulfo; Audrina Miranda plays his younger, dino-fearing daughter—she's cute without wearing out her welcome.) Edwards (director of 2016's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and the 2014 Godzilla) and Koepp (who wrote the scripts for the first two Jurassic Park movies) know what they're doing here: they locate the perfect ratio of human business to dinosaur antics, favoring the dinosaurs when in doubt. And the dinos are great: there are swimming ones, slicing through the water with their gorgeous, seashell-speckled spines, only to emerge from the surface as scary-looking hulks with angry faces; flying ones, swooping from the sky to capture prey in their merciless talons; a harmless, adorable baby dino with a penchant for licorice (E.T. lives on); and one very upset mutant giant who peers from his melon-shaped head through a set of way-too-small eyes—he's a Barney gone wrong, with nothing to do with his anger but stomp around his island prison on a rampage. But Jurassic World Rebirth isn't all terror and mayhem. Moments of glorious beauty abound: the family of brontos that so enchant Dr. Loomis are particularly regal, their tails swirling around them like ribbons as they graze in a sunlit field. There is some moderate child endangerment in Jurassic World Rebirth, and though I and perhaps you could do with less of that, it wouldn't be a Jurassic Park movie without it. And the warnings of humankind's imminent demise are perhaps more pronounced here than they were in the previous installments. At one point Dr. Loomis, the wisest of all these characters, pronounces solemnly, 'When the Earth gets tired of us, she will shake us off like a summer wind.' That's movie language for sure—real humans don't talk like that. But then, movie language is part of what we go to the movies for, and sometimes it presents the unruly truth of things we'd rather not think about. Meanwhile, we do have some time—time to stem at least some of the damage we've done as a species, and time to indulge in the fantasy of prehistoric creatures big and small, carnivore and veg, deadly and friendly, resurrected from the sleep of extinction. That, too, is something the movies can give us, at least until they themselves go the way of the dinosaur.
Bloomberg
30-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Bloomberg
Jurassic World Rebirth Reveals a Franchise More Brain-Dead than Ever
In Jurassic World Rebirth, we're told it's been 32 years since dinosaurs were brought back to life and now all humans are bored with them. Well, the truth is the dinosaurs aren't really the problem. This franchise is. The latest entry is a reboot of the reboot that trudges along at a deathly dull pace toward making millions of dollars at the box office. Even the introduction of a monstrous hybrid dino that looks, hilariously, like a T. rex crossed with a bloated xenomorph from Alien can't make this thing any less sleepy. There's dumb fun—like the best of the last trilogy, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, which puts dinos in the trappings of a haunted house film. And then there's just dumb. This falls into the latter category.
