I know that generally, you should never criticize a film before having seen it and especially not its trailer. Except that today a good number of Hollywood films (and I wonder if soon France will not let itself go to this kind of exercise one day), release teasers, then trailers then trailers of the same film.
Which means that if we have seen them all, we can, with a little common sense, summarize the first half hour of the film and it's a shame.
The first time I saw the first trailer of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, I quickly took stock after 2 minutes 30 seconds, and above all deduced the basic story which can be summed up as follows:
"Claire, we had the scare of our lives escaping from the dinosaurs, but I feel guilty about leaving them there. I suggest we go back to rescue them from the awakened volcano that risks killing them (and us with it)."
That's what I deduced. Who would be sane enough to go back there to get some poor dinosaurs who didn't ask anyone for anything? In the first part of Jurassic World, there was already an improbability: The fact of introducing a dinosaur trainer. But I would say, why not. But here, we are dealing with an abandoned park with dinosaurs left behind, including carnivores much more powerful than man. Why don't we leave them alone? Why do we have to save them when a volcano risks exploding and taking everything in its path? In any case, they are on an island and most of them don't know how to swim. Unless the Loch Ness monster is the animal that escaped from this island...
Personally, the following trailers only confirmed what I already thought about certain franchises. The more we advance in time, the more the studios no longer seem to have anything to say. Except to make something new with something old and this in spite of common sense. Except that we have the impression of taking us for spectators with the memory of a goldfish who no longer remembers what was done before. But I also think that these new films are only aimed at the younger generation who have not seen the films of Steven Spielberg. Or that nostalgia has been synonymous with profitability for several years.
This is the kind of film that doesn't make me want to go to the cinema, unless I leave my brain at the entrance of the cinema and give 10 euros to people who are no longer trying to make us discover something new, but only to perpetuate a license again and again to the point of reducing it to nothing. It's a bit like making a photocopy of the copy of the copy... it makes a very bad copy of poor quality.
JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOWN
Theatrical release: June 6, 2018
Duration: 2h08
Director: Juan Antonio Bayona
Main actors: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Rafe Spall
Synopsis: It's been three years since the dinosaurs escaped from their enclosures. Isla Nublar has been abandoned by humans. When the island's dormant volcano begins to roar, Owen and Claire must organize to save the remaining dinosaurs from extinction.
