'Jurassic World' Rewatch | Jurassic Pals

Summary

No Dunks Podcast: ‘Jurassic World’ Rewatch | Jurassic Pals

Date: August 29, 2025
Hosts: J.E. Skeets, Tas Melas, Trey Kirby, J.D.

Episode Overview

This episode of No Dunks’ “Jurassic Pals” summer series dives into Jurassic World (2015), revisiting the fourth installment of the Jurassic Park franchise. The hosts unpack the blockbuster’s plot, its new additions to the dino-universe, standout characters (and deaths), fan service moments, and the film’s position within the larger franchise. The discussion fluctuates between playful banter and thoughtful criticism, with plenty of nostalgia and laughs along the way.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Revisiting Jurassic World: Success & Setup

• Released 14 years after Jurassic Park 3, Jurassic World opened in 2015, revitalizing the franchise.
• Major financial success: $1.67 billion worldwide; one of the highest-grossing movies ever.
• Basic plot: A new park on the original site (Isla Nublar) creates a genetically-modified dinosaur, Indominus Rex, that escapes and wreaks havoc.
• Directed by Colin Trevorrow, previously best known for Safety Not Guaranteed.
• Stars Chris Pratt (Owen Grady), Bryce Dallas Howard (Claire Dearing), and Ty Simpkins (Gray Mitchell).

JD on the new director:
"Colin did Safety Not Guaranteed, which is a movie I've heard of...but yeah, he's running this one." (02:37)

Experiencing Franchise Fatigue?

• The hosts joke about how, after watching so many dino movies back-to-back, every dinosaur entrance prompts an involuntary, “Oh, hello.”
• Skeets admits: "Every time a dinosaur shows up now, we go, oh, hello. We can't stop doing it. So that's where I'm at..." (05:17)
• Trey mixes in other movies to avoid dino burnout but admits: “Jurassic is carrying the torch throughout the summer for me.” (03:18)

Getting to Know Jurassic World

• Opening establishes brothers Zach and Gray, their strained family background, and aunt Claire as operations manager.
• The park feels like “Disney World meets dino chaos”—wristbands, Epcot vibes, elaborate attractions.
• Noted lack of visible Christmas decorations despite being set during “winter break.”
• Gray’s dino obsession leads to nitpicks (“How many pounds is the island?”).

On the opening vibe:
"It definitely feels like Disney, too...even the band, like the wristbands...That's basically Disney, right?" – Tas (08:54)

Consumerism & Making 'Bigger, Louder, More Teeth'

• The plot critiques the public’s insatiable appetite for spectacle, leading to the creation of Indominus Rex.
• Claire: "Consumers want dinosaurs to have bigger, louder, more teeth." (12:11)
• The hosts reflect: was our herbivore-only park dream misguided? “She is basically saying, yeah, that works for a year or two, dummy. But then nobody cares.” – Skeets (12:34)

DNA Secrets and Returning Characters

• Dr. Henry Wu is back as the geneticist, keeping the Indominus recipe a secret, which Skeets questions.
• JD explains: “Look what happened with Nedry...they need to lock down security.” (15:07)
• Wu’s reveal that Indominus has cuttlefish, tree frog, and raptor DNA sets up later twists.

Park Operations & Control Room Comedy

• Control room features Lowry (Jake Johnson, great in “comedy nerd” mode) and Vivian (Lauren Lapkus), who “don’t get enough to do.”
• Running joke: Lowry’s vintage Jurassic Park T-shirt—“Yeah, I know it was in poor taste...But that first park was legit.” (24:08)
• Unrequited chemistry: “It’s a dud of a bit because there’s no chemistry between them for the entire movie,” – JD (28:02)

A New Hammond? Simon Masrani

• Park owner Masrani is both “likable” and “a menace”—a blend of naïve optimism and hubris.
• “He captures Hammond’s original enthusiasm...but still has the sort of, you know, the audacity to do all of it without suffering the consequences — or not thinking about the consequences.” – JD (30:07)
• His reckless helicopter piloting is a running gag and ultimately the cause of greater disaster.

Chris Pratt as Owen: The Raptor Whisperer

• Pratt’s Owen trains a “raptor squad” (Blue, Charlie, Delta, Echo), the only characters with “new” dinosaur names that stick.
• Hilarious overview of raptor training: “This dude, man, clicking his clicker like a damn fool. Too many clicks!” – Skeets (35:51)
• Introduction of the military angle (“weaponizing dinosaurs”) led by Hoskins (Vincent D’Onofrio as a memorable, creepy villain).

On raptor military use:
“I would love to see a velociraptor leading a military.” – Tas (38:18)
“Is he gonna be, like, running a raptor show?” – Trey (41:58)

Action Sequences & Set Pieces

The Attractions

• Hosts love the theme park details: a dino petting zoo, the Gyrosphere ride, and the Mosasaurus show (SeaWorld meets dinosaurs).
• Mosasaurus show is a favorite: “Every attraction looks like it would be amazing to go on.” – Trey (55:51)

Indominus’ Escape & Carnage

• The Indominus “outsmarts” its enclosure by camouflaging and hiding its thermal signature.
• Non-lethal response teams (ACU) get wiped out—“You'll never guess who wins!” – Skeets (53:12)
• Indominus removes its tracker, demonstrating intelligence and plot armor.

The Iconic Gyrosphere Chase

• The kids’ off-roading in the Gyrosphere is a standout scene: “It just works incredibly well...as exciting as the original T-Rex vs. Jeep scene.” – JD (58:49)
• Callback: “Jump! One, two—nobody says three.” (59:00)

Emotional Gut Punch: Brachiosaurus

• Hosts highlight the genuinely sad sequence of dead/dying Brachiosaurus after Indominus’ rampage.
• “That one, the main one where they're holding its head. Holy crap.” – Skeets (60:42)
• JD commends the use of animatronics for realism.

Park Mayhem: Pterosaurs & Death by Dinosaur

• The release of flying dinosaurs (pterosaurs) following Masrani’s helicopter crash leads to mass chaos on Main Street.
• Zara’s death (“executive assistant gets brutally chomped and dropped into the Mosasaurus pool”) is lauded as possibly the franchise’s best and most harrowing dino-death:
  “Best death in Jurassic Park.” – JD (71:44)

Final Battle: Dino Tag-Team

• Indominus battles both the T-Rex (“Sexy Rexy”) and Blue the Raptor.
• Ultimate takedown delivered by Mosasaurus dragging Indominus underwater: “Great teamwork...They all played their part.” – Skeets (87:59)
• “It's a little silly...the power of friendship with raptors...Now they're cool and cuddly.” – Trey (89:30)

Fan Service and Series Callbacks

• The ruined original Visitor Center—iconic banner, T-Rex skeleton, old Jeeps, Mr. DNA cameo.
• Ongoing debate over dinosaur names: “Indominus Rex does not roll off the tongue...let’s just call it Steve.” (13:42)
• Pop culture metacommentary: Jake Johnson’s Lowry as the audience surrogate, critiquing dino-corporate sponsorships and nostalgia grabs.

Lighthearted Nitpicks & Memorable Quotes

• Numerous gags about Claire’s high heels: “She's doing all of this...never ditches the high heels!” (65:56)
• Running commentary on product placement and naming rights for dinosaurs (Pepsisaurus vs. Tostitodon).
• “Give him the raptor flu!” – Skeets, riffing on ways to deal with dino-military escalation. (41:41)
• “Anytime The Mosasaurus makes an appearance. I’m like, hell yeah. Like, I love this thing.” – Skeets (73:48)
• “You got a real soft spot for these Brachiosaurus...” – JD teases Skeets (60:42)

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Favorite Scenes, Characters, and Dinosaurs

(92:26-95:18)

• Favorite Scene:
  • Gyrosphere Escape (JD, Tas)
  • Pterosaur Attack/Main Street Chaos (Trey)
  • Dino Tag-Team Finale (Skeets)
• Favorite Character:
  • Lowry (Trey)
  • Zach & Gray (Tas)
  • Simon Masrani, Claire (Group)
• Favorite Dino:
  • Mosasaurus (Trey)
  • Raptors (JD)
  • T-Rex and Blue (All)

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Rankings and Franchise Placement

(101:06-104:30)

• Scores:
  • Tas: 9/10 ("Feels more like the original Jurassic Park... pacing is great.")
  • JD: 8/10 ("Very derivative, but in the best possible way. I feel serviced as a fan.")
  • Skeets: 8/10 ("Looks awesome... I was amazed how much I liked this movie.")
  • Trey: 7/10 ("Even though it gets silly, I’m on board.")
• Consensus Ranking (so far):
  1. Jurassic Park (1993)
  2. Jurassic World (2015)
  3. Jurassic Park 3
  4. The Lost World: Jurassic Park

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Notable Quotes & Moments with Timestamps

• On the park’s theme:
  "Consumers want dinosaurs to have bigger, louder, more teeth." – Claire (12:11)
• Team dynamic:
  "We podcast together for survival." – Skeets (00:06)
• On Zara’s death:
  "Best death in Jurassic Park." – JD (71:44)
• On dino-military uses:
  “I would love to see a velociraptor leading a military.” – Tas (38:18)
• Favorite running joke:
  "You got a real soft spot for these Brachiosaurus..." – JD (60:42)

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Easter Eggs and Trivia

(97:18-99:02)

• Dr. Ian Malcolm’s book (“God Creates Dinosaurs”) appears as an Easter egg.
• A fan theory (tongue-in-cheek) that Chris Pratt’s Owen is the grown-up “six foot turkey” kid from JP1—debunked by the hosts.
• Only franchise entry with no torrential downpour scene.

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Closing Thoughts

The hosts were surprised by how much Jurassic World held up, praising its fun pacing, inventive dino-attractions, and satisfying callbacks while acknowledging its derivative, sometimes silly nature. The expanded spectacle and nostalgia play well, making it the clear favorite among the sequels to date.

Final Quote:
"Remember, the key to a happy life is to accept you are never actually in control. Embrace the day people." (105:99)

Transcript

[A]

Foreign. Welcome to Jurassic Pals, the no Dunks summer podcast series where we're watching and reviewing every movie from the Jurassic park franchise. Today we're at number four. The park turns into the world. It's Jurassic World. I'm Jay Skeets here in the classic factory and alongside me as always. We podcast together for survival. Tasmelas.

[B]

Hope we can do it next to him.

[A]

He helped me fix up my grandpa's old Malibu and I respect the hell out of him for it. Trey Kirby. Yeah.

[C]

You remember that?

[A]

I do. Hey, O. And last but not least, you should see this guy running heels. It's super producer J.D.

[D]

You know it.

[A]

Hey. Hello everyone. Jurassic World time. If you're enjoying Jurassic Pals, hit the like button. Subscribe 5 star ratings and reviews. So Jurassic World released in June 12, 2015. So this was 14 years after our Jurassic Park 3. Big jump in time. Production budget of 150 million. Though some suggest it could have been as high as 250 million considering the marketing and other costs. Okay, it doesn't matter. This thing was a huge success. It grossed 1.67 billion worldwide. This is one of like the highest grossing movies of all time. Jurassic World. The skinny on this. A new theme park built on the original site of Jurassic park creates a genetically modified hybrid dinosaur which escapes containment and goes on a killing spree. Runtime two hours and four minutes. So that's about a two hour movie. Let's call it that. Stars Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard and I didn't know who to go with the third spot here. I'm gonna go with Ty Simpkins, the boy that played Gray. Okay, who do you sort of pick?

[D]

Vincent Delfornio. Yeah.

[A]

Okay. Yeah. Hoskins.

[D]

The hero of this whole story.

[A]

The hero.

[D]

That's right.

[A]

Wow. Okay, well, I can't wait to break that down. This was directed by Colin Trevorrow, who I had never heard of before. I was not familiar with his game. You said he was he involved in JD in some sort of.

[D]

He was supposed to direct Episode nine of Star Wars. Got fired. He had a big flop in the middle of between the two Star wars movies. And also I think they were panicking so they brought JJ Back. Anyways, that's sort of his backstory.

[A]

He did direct. Colin did. Safety Not Guaranteed, which is a movie I've heard of.

[D]

I've heard of it too.

[A]

Two years before this.

[D]

It's Aubrey Plaza.

[A]

I believe so. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. So anyway, he's running this one. Let's get it. Actually, you know what? Before we get into it. I want to just ask you guys a question because, you know, we're producing these or pre recording these Jurassic pals, right. And you're seeing them every week as they release. But in our world right now, we're watching a whole lot of Jurassic park movies, like a whole bunch of dinosaur movies, sort of back to back to back to back. How are you holding up with that experience? Like, are you going crazy a little bit, or.

[C]

No, I'm making sure to mix in other movies.

[A]

Oh.

[C]

Outside of just Chomps, you know, I got to get some actual dramas. I gotta get some laughs in here as well. But Jurassic is carrying the torch throughout the summer for me. You know, it's like, movie, Jurassic. Movie Jurassic. Movie Jurassic. So I'm holding up okay. I didn't remember seeing this one. I don't know if I ever have. The only reference I have is I used to have Xfinity. They used to have boxes, you know, cable boxes, back in the day. It had On Demand, and it would show you. If you've watched the movies, it would have, like, the little poster on the On Demand. It would say, watched at the bottom. When I had that mindset watched for Jurassic World, and I didn't remember anything, and I watched this whole movie, and I was like, I've never seen this before. So I don't know who watched Jurassic World. At my house, on my box, a babysitter. I know it wasn't Laura. I don't think it was the girls. Who knows who was watching.

[A]

You got hacked. I got hacked. That's right.

[B]

I never trust the watched tag.

[A]

What was that about?

[B]

I know there's a lot of, you know, conspiracy theorists these days, and maybe somebody watched it, but I just.

[D]

I just.

[A]

I can't.

[B]

I can't trust it. Anybody can do it.

[A]

Yeah, I can do it.

[D]

I had a similar experience, actually, because I was well into the second act of this movie, and I was like, I have never seen this. The first act. I remember the second act. I must have, like, fallen asleep or something.

[A]

I think the same thing. I think I watched this on a plane.

[D]

Okay. Yeah.

[A]

And I think I fell asleep because I was remembering parts of this movie. Yeah. Going, I've watched this. But then there was big chunks of this movie. Like, I've never seen this.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

So that's. Must have. What happened to me. Yeah.

[B]

I remember the glass. The only thing I really remember seeing again was the glass sphere that the boys are in.

[A]

Right.

[C]

That doesn't happen.

[B]

That doesn't happen in the following Two.

[A]

I don't know.

[B]

I just need to confirm with JD who you've watched.

[D]

I mean, I'm questioning myself because I thought I'd watch them all, and like I said, but. Yeah, I don't think that Gyrosphere comes back. No, I don't think so.

[C]

Gyrosphere in five, at least.

[A]

Fallen Kingdom. Who knows? The reason I asked how you're holding up. I'm not doing well. No, because nightmares. Well, no, Alan, no. What's happened is Nora's generally sort of watching these with me. You know, I've got them on the tv. And what's happened by Jurassic World? Our fourth one of seven. Every time a dinosaur shows up now, we go, oh, hello. We can't stop doing it. So that's where I'm at with these. Is it seven?

[B]

I thought it was six.

[A]

Probably wrong.

[B]

Sorry.

[A]

They all blend together. I thought we were.

[B]

I thought we were midway through.

[A]

Well, we're. We will be.

[C]

This is hump day.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I thought after three, we were midway through.

[A]

Oh, man.

[B]

Last four just seemed.

[A]

Because we just had one release.

[D]

Rebirth.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, the birth.

[C]

Rebirth. Rebirth, I think is probably how it's pronounced.

[B]

Rebirth. Rebirtha.

[A]

Okay, well, let's get into Jurassic World. 22 years after the incident at Jurassic Park, a new theme park, Jurassic World. It now operates in. In Isla Nublar. So we are back to the OG Island. So if you're keeping track, it was Nublar, then it was Sorna in number two, it was Sorna in number three, and now we're back to Nublar. Okay, I like that. Our brothers here, Zach and Gray Mitchell, are sent to the park to visit their Aunt Claire, the park's operations manager, for their winter break, which is going to last a week. So we get a few things from these opening scenes, right? We. We know that the youngest Gray. Big dinosaur fan, big dino head, just a sicko. Zach, the oldest of the brothers, he's. He's bored of his girlfriend, Ready to go. Yeah, she's into him, but he's. Yeah, he's. He's tired of her.

[D]

He's at the.

[B]

He's at the right park.

[A]

Oh, yeah. This guy's flirting with every teenage girl in this movie.

[B]

Just with his eyes.

[A]

Strictly with his eyes.

[B]

No conversation.

[A]

Their parents, Karen and Scott, we learned they're going through it because Scott drops so much for our last family breakfast as they're leaving. Yeah, I thought that was harsh.

[D]

Man, another sad dad writing this.

[A]

Totally. What a theme throughout these movies. It's wild and we learn, I think, because of Gray. Yeah. When the park opened, it had eight species, but now it has 14 in total. Eight herbivores, six carnivores. So, yeah. What'd you think of the opening of Jurassic World and getting the boys to the. To the park?

[C]

We do get the tiniest prologue. A dinosaur egg cracks open.

[A]

Yeah, I did.

[C]

And a big stomp. And it's a bird foot. Maybe laugh. Don't forget, dinosaurs are birds. All I could think of watching this scene was where these parents were going to rank on JD's worst parents in the Jurassic franchise scale. Because not only are they sending their kids to a dinosaur theme park, they're not going with them.

[A]

And.

[C]

And they're going to get divorced without telling them.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

On the way. Like, that's crazy to me.

[D]

At Christmas. No laugh.

[A]

I was thinking, is Jurassic World a Christmas movie?

[C]

They just got to that go.

[D]

I mean, yeah, it seems to be at Christmas time, but then have yourself.

[C]

A merry little Christmas. At the airport.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah, at the airport.

[A]

But I didn't like that there was no Christmas decorations that I could tell at the Jurassic World.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Come on.

[D]

If you go to Disney at Christmas, it's done up.

[A]

Get me some garland, get me some lights and trees.

[D]

We're taking peak season here. Let's go.

[C]

T. Rex with a Santa hat on.

[A]

Come on.

[B]

It definitely feels like Disney, too. When they get in there. It looks like Epcot with the, with the, the water around, even the band, like the wristbands.

[A]

That's basically Disney, right?

[B]

That's true. Yeah. I mean, the score was great. You know how slow it was, the slow pace of it. That's incredible. And just a shout out to Gray's the little one, Right?

[A]

Yes.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Because this is a little later. But he does the research on his parents because he says he checks the mail and he sees the lawyers that are being. Are sending whatever they're sending to their parents. And he said, I googled them. They're divorced lawyers. I'm so freaking sad. That's when Zach is like, don't worry.

[C]

Don't worry, man.

[A]

I'll be fine.

[C]

Don't worry.

[A]

We're going have two Christmases, two presents at your birthday.

[D]

That's awesome.

[A]

And I'm glad you did bring up Trey. The. At the real start of the movie, the little crackling of the eggs I.

[D]

Was going to ask you about.

[A]

The eggs looked a lot better. JP1.

[D]

You can see the 15 years in between.

[A]

Oh, my God. Looks amazing.

[D]

Like the CGI in this movie. Across the board I thought was incredible.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Do you think that's part of the reason there was such a big gap is like we had good technology. It looked awesome in the 90s, and then we had to wait another decade and a half for there to be that big until we get good again as cool as it did back in the 90s.

[D]

So they James Cameron it.

[C]

Maybe. Maybe little AV maybe.

[B]

Yeah, maybe big gap between even one and three.

[C]

Also true.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we get to the park here, the brothers have to take a flight to Costa Rica. And from there they get on a ferry to Isla Nublar and the, the ferry jetty, I guess it's connected to the main park area by way of the. The electric train. But it does look cool.

[D]

Looks awesome.

[A]

Like it, you know, like you said, it's Disney vibes.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Wow. They did it.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

The production. Only John was alive to see this.

[C]

I know I would 100% get eaten at this park.

[A]

But it looks awesome.

[C]

They have the coolest attractions. Crazy line though, from Gray as they're getting on the boat and he asks how many pounds the island is or.

[B]

Something like that's weird. How many pounds?

[A]

What?

[B]

What I thought it would like.

[C]

I thought that was gonna be like one of those little nuggets that's planted and eventually it comes down to they gotta figure out how many pounds they gotta balance with something or another. He just wanted to know how much pounds. Some people are like, yeah, curious guy, I guess he's finding out a lot of information how many pounds.

[A]

But he's like always blocking his brother with all this dino knowledge. Okay, so Claire has granted Zach and Gray VIP access again. She is their aunt and they've been sent there to spend the week with with her there. But they get the VIP access. You know, it's the fast pass, right. They get all the rides without waiting in line. They basically can go anywhere. Claire's assistant, though, some British woman named Zara I think was her name.

[B]

Yeah, that's her name.

[A]

Yeah. Is the is going to be their guide or their babysitter? Claire's too busy. She's really worried right now. Or busy with recruiting corporate sponsors for a new attraction. A genetically modified dinosaur called Indominus Rex. What do you think of the name of Indominus Rex?

[C]

They got to make it easy for people to say they did.

[A]

Literally. She explained that at the end, I.

[C]

Was like, oh, Claire, you are functioning as the stand in for the studio executive making this movie. At one point she literally says, consumers want dinosaurs to have bigger, louder More teeth. There's that whole scene in the lab where she's just walking through, basically setting the scene like nothing you see is going to be real anymore. And it's going to be crazy because that's what people want. So get on board. Or not.

[A]

It really sort of like poo poos with a. With a big pile of crap from either Jurassic Park 1 or 3 on our whole theory that, man, you should have just kept the park. All herbivores.

[D]

Right?

[A]

Like that's badass. But she is basically saying, yeah, that works for a year or two, dummy. But then nobody cares. They want. They want scarier, bigger and all that. So I was like, oh, damn, I was wrong.

[B]

Well, they've had 10 years of success, apparently.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

So they've been good. But I guess year 11, it ain't going to grow with just the herbivores. I will ask though, Indominus, does that roll off the tongue?

[A]

No, but it is easy to like, is it? Why don't you just say when you.

[B]

Look at it blowy or whatever you call it. Yeah, blow is not good.

[A]

But two syllables instead of in Dominion, it's way better. Yeah, I'm with you.

[B]

Whaler.

[A]

Is awesome. Anything.

[B]

Anything.

[C]

I don't think Irex is a good name.

[A]

But we never call them.

[C]

They never do. Because it sounds.

[A]

It sounds dumb.

[C]

Indominus.

[A]

Let me just like call it like Steve.

[D]

Because it's a dinosaur. All dinosaurs have like a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Sure. A Triceratops. They're kind of hard to say, but not. You know what I mean? Like, you want to sound like you're saying a dinosaur name. Indominus Rex. It sounds cool.

[B]

It does.

[A]

Indominus Rex. I liked writing it when I was doing my notes because all these other dinosaur names, I always spelled them wrong. I haven't spelled Brachiosauru right once in four movies now of writing it in my notes. And it always corrects. But okay, yeah, we get the. The dinosaur has the DNA of several predatory dinosaurs as well as modern day animals. Geneticists.

[D]

Geneticists.

[A]

Yeah. That's not easy. Dr. Henry Woo. He's back, baby.

[C]

He's back.

[A]

And he's keeping the exact genetic makeup classified. I don't really get this plot point, you know, like, why, what is it, Matt?

[D]

Because there's a big reveal.

[A]

Oh, yeah, yeah, of course. For the movie. But I'm saying, like, in the world of Jurassic park.

[D]

You'Re right there.

[A]

You don't think that the guy, the owner of the damn park doesn't even know?

[D]

Well, I mean, that's. That's the sort of weird relationship between ingen and the park. Right? The park is the park and then the geneticists are the geneticists. Right. So. Yeah, I'm not. It is unclear. That's a fair point that you're bringing up.

[A]

It's just so secretive.

[C]

Yeah, but he's pressed on. He's like, ye. That's actually a cuttlefish tree frog blend.

[D]

Yeah, right. But why wouldn't they be? Look what happened with Nedry, right? Like one guy stole 15 embryos. Like they need to lock down security so they keep things tight lipped. That's it. That makes sense to me.

[C]

We still don't know what's in McDonald's special sauce either. You know, people keep their recipes secret. The Colonel's got his herbs and spices. Your crew has cuttlefish and tree frogs.

[D]

100%.

[A]

I guess you're right.

[D]

I've seen the vault that the Coca Cola recipes. He is in supposedly.

[A]

Look, he won me over it. That does make sense if that's how they're looking at it.

[C]

But you show up in a black turtleneck. I'm skeptical.

[A]

He was looking villainous immediately.

[C]

The villain twinkle in his eye as well.

[A]

I must have more. Yeah, I mean, I know we get a lot more of them later in this movie. Dr. Wu. I thought he was such a bad actor in this movie.

[C]

They gave him a way bigger part in JP1.

[A]

I don't know. It was the delivery of his lines or the way he was talking was not working for me.

[D]

A little stiff.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Little stiff, man. BD but.

[A]

So the operating costs of the park are up. This is sort of Claire when she's talking all to the. The potential investors here or sponsors, I guess. Revenues are falling as kids these days are not excited by seeing a dinosaur anymore. That's so sad, man.

[C]

People there. How good was it doing before?

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

It doesn't look to be a park that is struggling to get people in the door.

[D]

That's true.

[A]

Yeah. What's max capacity on this part?

[C]

Max capacity.

[D]

Great question.

[A]

Like how many rooms do we have? How many people? Yeah. Can we do more than 22,000 on the island at one time? Or is that like you're saying? Is that like. That's a dip. We used to be putting 50,000 in here. It's like the Jays in the World Series days, man. Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. Then they got to close off sections of the park when they're not doing well because it's got to seem full. And I guess it. It does Seem full.

[A]

It does.

[D]

Yeah, it does. But it is Christmas, peak season. Great holidays.

[B]

Yeah, it is. Break spring again. Winter breaker.

[C]

What do you think is the down season for new blondes?

[A]

I guess when school's back.

[C]

Yeah, probably.

[B]

Well, January, February. Yeah.

[D]

You know, it's not warm like, after Labor Day. The week after Labor Day, it's not warm enough.

[A]

It's in Costa Rica.

[C]

It's rainy season, though.

[D]

We've seen hurricane season.

[C]

The weather changes like crazy.

[A]

Does. Yeah. Does it? Does. Anyway, this is why they're cooking up this hybrid species of dinosaur there. This is important to maintaining interest in the park. This is basically what she's saying. You already said the line trace is like, we need bigger, louder, more teeth. And attendance spikes with the unveiling of every new asset. Because you're getting global news coverage and you're getting celebrity visitors. Do you wish there was one, you know, celebrity visitor named in this movie? I sort of did. I wish you just said, like, celebrity visitors. Like, we had Beyonce last week. Or. I don't know.

[D]

We do see one.

[A]

Who?

[D]

Jimmy Buffett.

[A]

Jimmy. Jimmy Fallon.

[D]

But Jimmy Buffett is in the movie for two seconds. He's the guy with the margaritas.

[A]

I remember the song. Or they say something like. Something about.

[D]

Yeah, Margarita is always happy with happy hour in Margaritaville.

[A]

Oh, I didn't realize it was him.

[D]

It was actually Jimmy Buffett with the Margaritaville.

[C]

He's been there.

[A]

Yeah. He's still too.

[C]

Well, he's probably got a reserve or a residency.

[A]

Oh, parrot heads. He loves birds. Okay, so Dr. Wu is using gene splicing to mix the DNA of different dinosaurs to come up with a new species. And the Indominus rex was designed to be 50ft tall. And she already is. I mean, basically, she's big. She's huge. So Claire can't hang with the kids till later that night. She's just busy. So Gray and Zack, they have to go with that babysitter. Like I said, they eventually escape her watch, which was pretty easy. One phone call. Yeah. Yeah. Something about. What was she saying about a bachelor party or something? No, he can't have a bachelor party. It's my wedding.

[C]

Because his friends are animals.

[D]

Is that what she says?

[A]

Weird thing to give her to say. Anyway, yeah. They go off and explore the park on their own, and we see some cool things they got, like that science center. Yeah. Pretty slick. Totally.

[C]

For us Atlantans here, that looked like Fern Bank Museum.

[D]

A little bit. Yeah.

[B]

But like a souped up version.

[C]

It looked awesome.

[A]

Yeah. We got the holographic dinosaurs, which were really cool. Nice cameo from Mr. DNA.

[C]

Yes.

[A]

Yeah, that was fun. The little, little DNA strand guy. A little later they're at like a petting zoo. See little kids hugging little Brachiosauruses. Yeah, that's cool. That's amazing. Like that. See that to me still. How is. This is still raking in money.

[D]

Totally.

[C]

You know, Gray is like. I can still ride the triceratops. I'm 47 and a half inches. That's exactly what a kid would say. But those look like very strong creatures. I think they should let adults ride the Triceratops as well.

[A]

Yeah, who cares?

[C]

I assume that me as a grown man could ride a baby rhinoceros.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

I don't know if it'd be safe, but I think I could do it.

[D]

Yeah, you could.

[C]

So I think they should chase.

[A]

You could ride a pony. Let's be honest. You could get on a pony. The pony is going to be fine. They're strong. Strong as hell.

[D]

The only reason not to is that you would look ridiculous. Yes, that's it.

[A]

Yeah. Your feet would be like dragging on the ground and stuff. Yeah.

[B]

So they're. Yeah, all the attractions are awesome.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Just in general. There's the. The show. The Massasa source. Is that what's pronoun. How it's pronounced?

[D]

Mosasaurus.

[A]

Mosasaurus. The big. The big water one. It's like SeaWorld on steroids. Fun. Yeah. Looks cool. And the original T. Rex, they go to that show too now. It's not much of a show. If I remember.

[D]

They just feed it a goat. Yeah, it does go after the goat this time.

[A]

Oh, it does. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

[D]

But yeah, that's off screen.

[A]

It's off screen. Yeah.

[C]

They throw a flare at it.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

It walks over to the goat and.

[A]

Zach takes a call.

[C]

He's like, boring.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah.

[C]

I guess they're right. Kids hate T. Rexes now.

[A]

I know.

[C]

That's.

[A]

That's true.

[B]

It's a great range. The range of all, you know, whatever weirdness you're into. Right. Like there's. There's people kayaking, whatever.

[A]

Kinky, blowy.

[B]

Yeah, exactly.

[C]

Show us the 9 inches of bone exhibit.

[B]

They do a little. There's a kayaking one.

[A]

Oh, that was.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, me too. I almost got my kayak right after watching it. I'll be out there. Humidity's ridiculous here, though. In Costa Rica, no humidity.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Christmas time, they're chilling.

[A]

Come on, Mosasaurus show. Let's talk about that though, because that was pretty cool. That dinosaur is amazing. Yeah, Again, it's like the. It's almost like an alligator. Well, what would you call it? It's like a whale meets an alligator meets.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Dinosaur, of course. Yeah. All those things. But the. The part where it's, like, they feed it with the shark.

[D]

That looked like a great white shark. It looked like Jaws.

[C]

That's why they're like all these old scary movies. You used to be scared of a T. Rex, kids ignoring it. Jaws used to be the scariest thing in the world. This thing chomps at no big deal. We have raised the stakes, and the show looks awesome. Especially when, like, they raise the tank up as well. Like, this is sweet.

[A]

Or. Or they. I guess they lower the people.

[C]

Yeah, that makes more sense.

[A]

Yeah. Very powerful. Maybe that's why Gray wanted to know how many pounds this island was. You're probably right. I was gonna ask JD that looked pretty cool. That's just a cool concept. I thought.

[D]

I thought it was great. Like, you know, a marine Land on. Or Marine World or Sea World on Steroids. Like, incredible. Like. Yeah, the visuals in this movie are awesome. And the park design is incredible. I mean, I was in right from the. Right from the moment they get there. So. Okay, I'm with Trey. Like, I would go there in a second.

[A]

We move with Claire to the park control room, and it is manned by Lowry, I think his name is. Yeah, Lowry, That's Jake Johnson. And Vivian is Lauren Lapkis. Those are the two main people there in the control room, along with Claire. And, you know, we're seeing the boards. We learned there's 22,216 people currently in the park, though. We have six kids in the lost and found and 28 have suffered heatstroke. I don't know if that was kids or adults or both, but I thought.

[D]

That was high for 22,000 people. For what? 1% going down with heat stress, I think that's less than that. 0.1%.

[A]

So you think those numbers check out at Disney on a hot day?

[D]

I would say Orlando in summer.

[A]

No, you're right.

[D]

I would think people just eating junk food all day.

[A]

Yeah. They're not hydrating enough. Maybe waters are too expensive. Yeah. Yeah.

[C]

At one point, Hoskins mentions they charge $7 for a soda.

[A]

So let's say drinks. Let's say water's five.

[C]

Easily.

[A]

Yeah, easily.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Okay. Anyway, Lowry is chastised for wearing a vintage Jurassic Park T shirt.

[C]

I love it. 150 bucks. 300 for the mint condition one on ebay. Jake Johnson is great in this one. I love Claire calls him out on the shirt because it's in poor taste. And he's like, yeah, I know it was in poor taste. I understand people died. It was terrible.

[A]

That first perk was legit. Just saying in this movie, like, hey, don't forget, after you're done watching Jurassic World to go check out Jurassic Park. It's still good. Yeah, it's still a good movie. Good park. Also, weird scene with Claire and him. Like, you were talking about why can she see the future. For a second here, I was really weirded out.

[C]

By the wastebasket, she's telling him to.

[A]

Clean up his desk.

[D]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

With his little dino things. And then as he's sort of thinking about doing or whatever, she slides her foot. She slides the garbage can over with her foot.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

To then catch Lowry's falling soft drink.

[D]

That he's definitely gonna fall because she's.

[A]

What was the thinking?

[D]

Yeah, you're showing that she's thought of everything. She's buttoned up. She knows what's gonna happen. Like, she's organized. She prints out.

[A]

She is very organized.

[D]

Itinerary to go on a date, you know? Like, this is. I think this is just sort of trying to portray that she knows what's gonna happen before it happens sort of thing.

[A]

I got news flash for you. You ain't no shit Claire. Okay. I just thought it was strange. I almost thought it was just to show us that she's wearing high heels.

[D]

Maybe, which she's going to continue to wear.

[A]

So strange. Okay, any other thoughts on the dynamics of this control room here with Lowry and Vivian and Claire in there or the room in itself?

[B]

Yeah, I didn't realize her last name was Lapkis. Which is a bit of a callback later on the kiss going on. That doesn't happen.

[A]

It's her real name.

[B]

Yeah, I know it's a real name.

[A]

I know. I saw her.

[D]

I've seen her.

[B]

Orange is the new black. I've seen her.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

[B]

But he's great. The Jurassic park shirt is awesome. He's also got it sort of under a button up. Right? Like, he can wear it both ways. Like if he wants to go button up and doesn't want to show Claire, he can button up. But he's cool, man. So he's. He's got no problem showing you that dress.

[A]

Is he supposed to be the cool Nedry?

[C]

I thought so.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

He was Nedry coded to me. I do feel like every character has an analog from the first one. Except for Claire, who has, like, several Analogs. She gets to be Dr. Dr. John Hammond because she's dressed in all white for the entire movie. Eventually she turns into Dr. Sattler and she at one point even gets like the sexy Jeff Goldblum shot. So she gets to be Dr. Malcolm.

[A]

I thought it was crazy.

[D]

She's got some fire lines, too.

[C]

Oh, for sure, for sure.

[D]

The dialogue is pretty snappy in this one, I think.

[A]

Okay.

[D]

But I will say that Lapkis and Johnson, kind of wasted.

[A]

I agree.

[D]

I mean, these two have been on Comedy Bang Bang a lot. They're, you know, I think they're, they're, they're very good at comedy, but there's not a lot of comedy happening and they're just sort of. I know they're sort of there to be the workers, you know, like, they're low down people, but they don't really give them anything to do except, you know, react to shit. Like, you know, you had Samuel L. Jackson and, you know, Muldoon. You know, they were the lower downs at the original Jurassic park, but they were actually given something to do. You know, they were integral to the plot. But these guys are just like. And you kind of easily.

[A]

Well, Lowry plays a pretty important part later. But I'm with you on Vivian not having really anything.

[D]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

In fact, then they have a strange little moment where, like, they're saying goodbye, right? She's leaving, he stays behind, and he sort of thinks they have something. And she's like, I have a boyfriend.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

You never bring him up. Yeah, I'm at work.

[A]

That was like the one comedy bit, I guess.

[D]

Yeah. And that's fine. But it's a, it's a dud of a bit because there's no chemistry between them for the entire movie. You know what I mean?

[A]

No, I know.

[D]

It's so strange. It's like we, the entire audience knew there was nothing going on here. Maybe that's supposed to be the bit, but it would have been better if there was like some chemistry or some. Or give them a moment. Give them something more to do and. Or make them funnier. Yeah.

[B]

She gets nothing throughout the movie.

[C]

Feels like she gets nothing. I think Jake Johnson is pretty funny in this. I like him. He's kind of the audience surrogate saying, like. Like, look, we had dinosaurs in the first movie slash the first park, and it was awesome. We don't need to be making these new dinosaurs. We don't need to be having a dinosaur called the Verizon Wireless Presents the Indominus Rex. He starts making fun of that he is us watching the movie as 40 year olds saying, look, we saw this a long time ago. Why are you changing things now? That's why he's there. So I think he's used pretty well in this.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

She is tacked on just so that they can have the kiss moment later on. I don't think they do a good job with the female characters in this movie, all things considered.

[D]

Yeah, I think Bryce is pretty good. But you're right about that. And I'm not saying that they don't have a function. I'm just saying that those particular actors are wasted in this role because it could have been way funnier and way more interesting.

[A]

Sure.

[D]

Because they're just. You give them more to do and they'll bring more another dimension to the plot, to the story.

[A]

Well, let's go to the real star of this movie, my favorite actor in the movie, My favorite character, park owner Simon Ronnie. This guy, man, I love him. He arrives by helicopter that he's flying and he doesn't even have his license. He's not going to have it for two more days. So strange, this decision to make. This guy wanting to fly the helicopter and be sort of the badass in a weird way. But he's the park owner and he's a complex character, actually, but he is a character. And he tells Claire when they're in the helicopter, he's like, cracking on her. He's like, you got to relax, man. Hit the beach, breathe. She's like panicking. I mean, she's freaking out a little bit. Because he's flying the helicopter.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

And he's not that good at it. He's not fluid, I'd say.

[D]

No. I mean, this is. I think he's one of the most interesting characters as well. Just because he's this billionaire. But he's. You know, billionaires, they have. Yes. People around them all the time. So it's like, I'm driving the helicopter. I don't have my license, but I'm driving it. And everybody's gonna say, okay, well, it's your helicopter and your park, so. Okay. And this will, you know, ultimately be his demise, really. But just this. And I love that he's not like. He's not like a megalomaniac type, at least on the surface. Right. He's like, oh, this is supposed to be fun. We don't worry. I'm not worried about the profits. I'm not worried about all this. He sort of captures Hammond's original enthusiasm without like, you know, but still has the sort of, you know, like the. The audacity to do all of it without suffering the consequences or not thinking about the consequences. He definitely suffers from the consequences. But it's interesting. Like, he's a likable guy, and when he goes down in the helicopter later, you're like, ah, God damn it, I like that guy. But he was a complete buffoon and he was probably part of the reason why all of this is happening in the first place. But I don't know, it's just interesting to me. Like the. The. The billionaire, the likable billionaire who's a fucking menace.

[A]

That's the thing that so easily could have made him such an. Oh, yeah. Like, he's like. You said, he's like the eighth richest guy in the world.

[D]

Right.

[A]

And you could have made him an absolute. I mean, he's a bit of a weirdo, I'll give you that. But, like, it could have made him way more of a weirdo or way more of a villain, but they did it. And you're. Yeah, you're sort of like rooting for him a little bit. You're like, yeah, he's saying the right things here.

[D]

Exactly.

[A]

I don't know if he's backing him up, but he's got the right thoughts.

[D]

He'S got the right attitude.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And he's just likable, too.

[D]

Yeah, exactly.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

He doesn't worry about profits, but he could have killed that Indominus a lot earlier, before he started kill. Of course, plenty of mistakes on that front, but it is cool. He comes in with the theme song as he's landing. Very fun. Yeah, he's got the swagger. I mean, it fits. If it's a CEO, owner, billionaire type, it's just so good.

[A]

So the two of them, eventually, I'm talking Masrani and Claire, they arrive at the Indominus enclosure and, you know, they're. They're looking for it or looking at it and they're talking about it. And this thing is bigger than sort of anyone anticipated. And it can sense thermal radiation and it's displayed intelligence by anticipating where it gets its food from. Oh, yeah. It ate its own sibling. And okay, Maserati says, tell me if I'm wrong. He says, oh, it's white.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

You never told me it's white.

[B]

Yeah, it does that.

[A]

Does this dinosaur. Am I in? Am I colorblind?

[B]

That doesn't track. No, that's not too white to me.

[A]

It's not white at all.

[B]

Again, you see a very quick shot.

[D]

Remember the line that Comes later. It can camouflage. So he's looking at it camouflaged, like, it's, like, taking on the. The wall behind him. But we don't get to see it.

[A]

Yeah, we don't get to see it. Okay. So that's what it's doing.

[B]

We see a little shot of it, I thought.

[A]

Yeah. And it didn't look white at all.

[D]

It didn't look white to me, but I guess that's what they were going.

[B]

But we never saw it form its other color at all. Like, I mean, we never saw dark. We never saw it. Hold on. We never saw it white.

[D]

No, we definitely never saw it white. But we definitely did see it emerge from the foliage later on.

[A]

Pretty out of.

[D]

It's pretty. Pretty camouflaged.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

I was just expecting it to be, like, albino white.

[A]

Totally.

[C]

My sister had an albino frog once upon a time. Wilby, she called it.

[A]

Oh, that's a good name. To us. Will be Rex.

[C]

Will be Rex.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Unfortunately, left Wilby in the tank when we went away for a week. Weekend once upon a time, and he spoiled it.

[A]

Rip. Damn. That's a way to go dark.

[C]

Sorry. To Wilby, shout out to.

[A]

Will be all right. Okay. So I'm not crazy. I was like, what did I look?

[B]

Yeah, it would have been awesome if it had albino jeans. I mean, that was great.

[A]

But I guess I. Okay, I see what you're saying, jd. That's the only thing.

[D]

I think that's the reason it must.

[A]

Have been standing in front of the. The whitish wall. I guess it was gray. Slash white. Yeah. And it's sort of blending in.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

All right.

[C]

Looked like a terrible paddock. I mean, it just looked really thrown together there, especially from the outside. You know, the glass seemed to be thick enough, Couldn't break through even though it tried. And credit to Masrani, I like its spirit. A real fighter. That's not exactly what I want to hear from the biggest, baddest dinosaur out there, but you're looking at the walls, and it looks like they were just stacking cinder blocks on top of each.

[A]

Other, gluing them together. Are they not, like, still working on it, too? Yeah.

[D]

Feels. Feels like.

[C]

No wonder the workers are revolting.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. I got done first.

[B]

Right. I do like how they infer that the dino is super smart without going directly at it, you know, without directly saying it. Like, they. The writing is good, I think.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Without directly saying that freaking dino's smart. You know, give up your little examples of why it's smart.

[A]

And it is dinosaurs. You Got a little desk taking a sats. This dino is so desperate. Word. So Masrani wants to bring in a Navy man to evaluate the enclosure before the attraction opens in three weeks time. So this is where we cut to Owen Grady, Chris Pratt. He's training the Parks velociraptor pack which considers him their Alpha. That's what we learned here. And the raptor squad is composed of Blue, Charlie, Delta and Echo. B, C, D, E. I guess that makes O and A Alpha.

[C]

I mean that's how the military, that's.

[A]

How the military does it. And this dude, man, clicking his clicker like a damn fool. Too many clicks in my opinion. Well, what do I know about training velociraptors?

[C]

Yeah, he's the expert. As you know, you learn in the Navy how to control Raptors. This guy can do it all. Also a motorcycle repairman. He's got every skill in the book. I think that is like the biggest change from first Jurassic park to Jurassic World is those guys. Grant, Sattler, Malcolm, Everybody was just winging it out there. They had no idea what they're doing. And this guy is a superhero, right?

[A]

Right. He's very, very smart. And again he's, he's up right now on the bridge looking into the velociraptor pen or whatever. And that's how he started training them. And they're all looking. And he's sort of feeding them, right? I guess throwing them rats. Or eventually throws Blue a rat. I love every time he talks to Blue in this movie. The way Blue, Blue stand out. Anyway, Hoskins, the head of park security, he believes the Raptors are trainable for military use. But Owen hates that idea. But Hoskins says that the military is looking for ways to reduce casualties. And replacing them with trained predators would revolutionize the whole war zone. So he's laying this pitch on thick, right? I mean he's like, this is what these can do. I've seen it. I'm seeing you, man. They respect you, man. They listen to you. And while he's doing all this, a newish worker gets pulled into the velociraptor pen into the paddock by a strong ass pig. Pig lives.

[C]

I was like, we gotta use that for the slop scale.

[A]

When we get to anytime Mark Stein or Jake Fisher drops a newsletter, we gotta scream big loose. I love it. Anyway, this guy, this poor like, oh, he looks like a kid almost. He gets pulled in with the lasso into the pen. Like I said, Owen jumps in to save him. And this is where we have the whole. He's first off. Like, you do not put 12amps into these animals. They're never gonna trust me again because everybody's getting ready to shoot. So he's like, stand down. He's talking to Blue. Blue, stand. Now, Delta, back up, back up. Charlie, you stay right there. I just was dying when he's talking to them anyway, he ends up saving this guy. What do you think of this scene? What do you think of Owen, Chris Pratt and this idea that he can train these.

[B]

Oh, yeah, I would love to see a velociraptor leading a military.

[C]

When you put it that way, it sounds ridiculous.

[D]

Yeah, a little far fetched.

[A]

Well. Well what? I guess Hoskins says, you know where we're getting at with all the drones and stuff, man, the hackers are gonna just take them over. We're gonna need beasts like this that we can train to go into the. Into the holes and the caves and stuff. Yes.

[D]

This is not a crazy idea, but let's be honest. I mean, they've been using animals in war.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

From, for, from all. From the beginning of time. Like name them. A dog, horse. That's about it. Birds.

[A]

Oh, birds.

[D]

An elephant. Yeah, you're right.

[A]

Sure. Yeah.

[D]

So we've been weaponizing animals for a very long time.

[B]

Yeah, so true. I mean, how many people did elephants kill or.

[A]

Yeah, it's more for transport or horses. Why haven't we been using wolves or something like that?

[D]

Well, we do use dogs, but for, you know, sniffing things out and attacking people.

[A]

Okay, so you think there's something here?

[D]

Well, look, I don't agree with him and I don't want any animals being used in war. But this is what would happen if this was real life. Like, you have a very powerful animal and then this guy is noticing, wait, this. Owen has figured out how to train these things. Of course they're going to try to weaponize them. This is. This is like. This is a trope from the beginning of time for movies as well. Right. Like, this is Alien. This is the. The plot of Alien. The entire franchise is about a corporation who wants to weaponize an uncontainable, uncontrollable beast. So, you know, this is not crazy to me.

[A]

My only pushback on that is they make it seem like Owen is in complete control of these velociraptors. Like, what have we really seen him do?

[D]

Click.

[A]

Except like, click and like, stand down. Yeah. Oh.

[D]

To be fair, we have seen four raptors not kill a man standing in front of him? Yeah, I guess by just holding up his head. So there's that.

[A]

Right. But. Okay, talk it out. You're gonna get on the. The battlefield, and he's gonna be like, all right, go.

[D]

Well, we see what happens.

[A]

Sniff this. Go. Go get them. But then, like, are they coming back?

[D]

I mean, look, this is the theory, right? This is his working thing.

[A]

I guess they are, yeah.

[D]

If he can make him stop and not eat them, then there's a chance that we could Delta back up. But, you know, this is. This is a science fiction movie. Movie? Really? I mean, when. At the end of the day, like, if you. There's a reason why armies haven't trained tigers to join you don't. You can't train an apex predator because of exactly what you just said. But this guy is going to think that you can. Right? This is a genetically engineered being that they own the IP for. And if they can't train this particular batch, they could probably engineer them to be more malleable, more train them. I'm just saying that.

[A]

Put a little more dog in them. Him.

[D]

Exactly.

[A]

Does that Dino got a dog in him?

[B]

Yeah. In respect to Owen's character. Because Owen says himself that he's not ready. They're not ready.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. He's like, this is a bad idea.

[B]

This is terrible. And then I'm just clicking.

[A]

I'm getting lucky every time.

[D]

They should give him the resonator.

[A]

Give him the raptor flu.

[C]

Dr. Grant did this with zero training.

[D]

Right.

[C]

They have force around him. He just plays a tune and they run off because they're confused. I don't know what Owen thought he was doing. If he's training these raptors, what else are they gonna use them for?

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Is he gonna be, like, running a raptor show?

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Like a circus movie.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah, absolutely.

[C]

So they hired an ex Navy guy to run their circus.

[D]

That's right.

[A]

Okay.

[D]

That's right.

[C]

I do love Vincent d', Onofrio, though, just in general. And he's a hilarious guy to watch once you realize he never stops moving his head. He's like this 100 of the time when he's talking.

[A]

He.

[D]

He gives a great performance.

[A]

He's awesome.

[D]

Scummy when you look at him compared to, like, Kingpin or something that he's played. Like, this is just. I didn't even recognize him at first.

[A]

No, I didn't know that.

[D]

Is that Vincent Del Forno?

[A]

Yeah. Does he have a real life limp? There's limping in this movie. I thought every time he was walking I thought he A little hitch to him.

[D]

I thought it was sort of like a. Like a redneck sort of.

[A]

You know, maybe by my balls are too big.

[B]

Yeah, exactly.

[D]

I got a Swagger, if you will.

[C]

Got a Friar Tuck in the pan.

[A]

Calling back to Jurassic Pal episodes. I love it. All right, so where am I? Okay, we're. I guess we're done with that. He saves the. That was cool. What's his buddy's name? Barry. That the guy's name? The black guy? Yeah, yeah, yeah, Barry. And they're like, I like the time it closed. Close the gate or whatever. And then he rolls under. Then he tells the new guy, you're new here. There's a reason. Yeah, the last guy died.

[C]

That was awesome.

[A]

And then he's like, hey, don't ever turn your back on the cage.

[C]

Facing away from the cage. He says it.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[C]

Well, you don't do it. It was like, I got the clicker.

[A]

I was like a little confused because he's telling him that it's like, that's not why the guy went into the pen. That had nothing to do with it. But of course it. I guess the payoff was his back was too. One of them was like one of the dinosaurs was like trying to get at him through the cage button. It's like. That's not why I went in there, man. That's not. The pig's too strong. Yeah. Pig loose. It wasn't the pig.

[D]

It wasn't the pig. It was a raptor that pulled it, man. In.

[A]

Oh, I thought it was the pig.

[D]

The pig runs, he catches the pig, but then the raptor grabs the pig and that's why he.

[A]

Oh, I missed that. Oh, it's not a strong pig. I mean, who knows what Dr. Woo's cooking up there in that lab.

[D]

You're right.

[A]

Strong ass pigs.

[D]

Killer pigs. Put that in your war, Vincent.

[B]

Pigs in the middle. Military. I like it.

[A]

So on our way to see Owen, Claire takes a call from Karen, her sister, kid's mom. She's not happy that Claire is not with them. Karen is bawling her eyes out in this scene. And I guess she is with her divorce lawyers back wherever she is.

[C]

They're at some sort of a boardroom conference room.

[A]

She is really.

[D]

She's gone through it.

[A]

She's gone through it. Yeah. That's fair. So then Owen gets to. Sorry. Claire gets to see Owen, his little. He. So he lives in Jurassic World in that little. Yeah, I guess shanty bungalow.

[C]

Yeah, bungalow. Because he does say, do you want to consult here or in my bungalow.

[A]

Oh, bungalow, yes. Yeah. And we learned that they went on a date earlier but didn't hit it off. Claire was too organized. Owen turned up to the date in board shorts, and he's like, it's hot as hell here.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Which. Fair enough.

[C]

So their date on the island, do.

[D]

You think it must have been.

[A]

Had to have been. Yeah.

[C]

Margaritaville.

[D]

That was the first thing on the itinerary.

[A]

Oh, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[D]

There's great line in this scene with what kind of diet doesn't include tequila? Oh, so they were definitely going to Margaritaville.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

She goes all.

[C]

That's up.

[D]

All of them. All of them. Owen, all of the diets don't include.

[A]

Right.

[D]

Tequila. I love that line.

[A]

Did you like their chemistry? Oh. You okay.

[D]

Yes, absolutely. It was finally a couple with some chemistry on Jurassic Park. You know what I mean? Until they kissed, I was fine with it.

[A]

That kiss was.

[D]

It was in Under Duress.

[A]

There's a lot going on during this pterodactyl.

[B]

I don't know what wasn't natural enough.

[A]

Didn't feel.

[C]

She had a closed mouth.

[A]

Yes. I wasn't buying.

[C]

On the right side of his mouth.

[A]

That's the only time they kiss, right?

[D]

I think so.

[A]

They don't even kiss at the end.

[C]

Yeah, no. She just wastes a pteranodon right in front of his face.

[D]

That was awesome.

[A]

Okay. No, I'm not. Besides the kiss, there's some chemistry. The lines are zinging.

[D]

It's a Han Solo, Princess Leia type of thing. It's, you know, another Harrison Ford character. Indiana Jones and Marion, like, you know, this. This works in Hollywood. It's a trope for a reason. The, you know, opposite, opposite, opposite types come together and they kind of hate each other, but you want them to kiss. I love it.

[C]

Who do you think's in the wrong? The itinerary bringer or the board short wearer?

[D]

They're both wrong. They're both wrong. That's what's great about it. They're both.

[B]

It's too extreme on. On either end.

[D]

Exactly.

[B]

Why are you so positive about not having tequila in your diet? As she mentions? Why do you love that so much? What do you love?

[D]

I love the line. I love the. He says, what kind of diet doesn't include. Where it doesn't allow tequila. Tequila. And she's like, all. All of them, man. Like, you're an idiot.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Of course there's no diet that you should include tequila in. It's a great.

[C]

She's got lights why is he not.

[A]

Wearing board shorts right now? Why is he not wearing board shorts at home? That's a great point. Because he's on the clock.

[D]

He's wrenching on his bike, you know.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Oh yeah. He's not really.

[D]

You don't want to get.

[A]

Once you get on that hot muffler. Don't touch the muffler with your hair. Legs.

[D]

Obviously his board shorts are his dressing up clothes. So you don't want to get oil and grease on. On the.

[A]

She tells him to change. He's like, let me get my cool leather vest.

[C]

I love the vest.

[A]

Yeah. To wear. Wear two items of clothing on a super hot island. Okay. So they make their way to the Indominus enclosure and they discover that it is seemingly escaped. Got the claw mark. Claw marks on the outer walls there. And the thermal scanners inside the enclosure are not detecting a heat signature. I was like, what's going on here? And Owen is warning her that like this Indominus Rex, particularly dangerous, it's not been socialized. And she's like, what are you talking about? The Velociraptors are like in their thing, but. Yeah, but they have each other lonely. So Owen and two other staff members do enter the enclosure because they're like, what the. Where the heck is this thing? And I think Claire is making her way back to the control center, right? That's where she's going. Yeah, she is. But when Owen is in there with these two other people, this is when the Indominus Rex ambushes them. It's faked its escape. And they learn because Claire eventually with the control room is like, whoa, it's in there, man. It's in there. The tracker embedded in it. It's inside there. And this is where it suddenly appears. Basically takes out the other two guys. And Owen manages to survive. He slides under a pickup truck. Cuts like the. The gas line, pours gasoline all over himself. That was pretty slick because he remembered that Claire had told him the Indominus are sensitive to smell. Yeah, that was cool.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

And he knows everything. You're right. Yeah.

[C]

And he knows everything. So yeah, he is going to be smelling like gas for the rest of this movie. He never changes after this. Just covered in a gas covered film. Look, we all like the smell of gas.

[A]

I do, right?

[C]

It smells delicious. But you know, I think order of operations. Claire should have gotten in touch with the control room to figure out where the tracker was before the cage.

[A]

Yeah. A little eager to get in there. Yeah.

[D]

Yeah. But how would they not Know, I mean, like, it's not in there. The sensors are saying it's not.

[A]

Yeah, well, yeah.

[C]

Their thermonuclear sensors are saying.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

But she immediately is like. But we can check the tracking sensor.

[D]

Right. Which takes a. An excruciatingly long, a little bit of time.

[A]

But I agree.

[C]

I did like the escape here.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Just in general, the hide underneath the car. Classic. You know, see it walk by, see a little eyeball action. If you get introduced to two new characters that barely have any lines, you know, rip to those guys especially the guy wearing the red shirt, snapped in half. He lasted longer than the security guard who can't run, though.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

He's a big boy.

[B]

And you don't see the dino's face. Right. As he takes care of business here, eating both these people.

[A]

And I think, I guess the one guy. I thought you did, I don't think he's the first guy.

[B]

Face keeps it mysterious.

[C]

It's definitely hiding quite a bit.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah. We're not getting full shots.

[B]

Yeah, I don't think so. I don't think so at all. So it's fun.

[A]

Well, it escapes. I mean, it's out obviously, when you get to that pickup truck part where he's lying under it. But it's on. It's on the run. It's wandering the island's interior. I guess. Claire has now made it to the control room. She walks in, she's got to like try and say, everyone remain calm.

[C]

It's four miles away.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Don't worry. No one else is going to get Lowry Hopson eaten bars. He's killing it.

[A]

Yeah, he's killing it. And this thing is smart because it's eventually going to remove the tracker from its back. Because realizing it's highly vicious, highly intelligent, Owen advises Masrani to have this thing destroyed. But to protect his company's investment, Maserati dispatches a specialized asset containment unit, acu, to subdue the dinosaur with non lethal weaponry so that it can be safely returned to its paddock. This is what they think they're going to do. But most of these, these ACU guys get killed.

[D]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

And again they, they. Because they come across the tracker that's been pulled out. It's like in its flesh. And then eventually they just get. They just all get dominated. But we do have a weird scene like in sandwiched in between here, sort of everything going on. Hoskins talking to Barry again. The French guy that works with the raptors.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

And he tells a weird story. He tells the Weird story about, like, raising a wolf pup.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

That, like, attacked his wife. Wife?

[D]

No, his wife was attacking him with a steak knife.

[A]

Oh, yes. Okay.

[D]

Protects him.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

Barry wisely asked you. You had it put down, right?

[D]

He's like, oh, no.

[A]

Oh, no.

[C]

Just the divorce.

[A]

That's where he's, like, trying to get close to the velociraptors in that, like, that mouth cage thing there. Their head's popping out and they're all freaking out every time he comes near them. Like, you're like. You're like, I can't wait for these things to kill this guy. That's all you're thinking every time you.

[C]

See a raptor next to, like, bite away, please bite him.

[D]

What are those things that they're keeping, the raptors? Why are they keeping them? Like, I mean, I know they're Raptors and they're dangerous, but are they in those things all of the time? Because that seems.

[A]

I thought it was more probably to either wash them or something. Sort of injections or medicine.

[D]

Yeah, fair enough.

[A]

And then maybe to put those. The head things eventually on, but they're not at that part yet, so. That's a good point.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. Why are they.

[D]

I don't know. But they're just sitting there.

[A]

Yeah. It's weird. It's like. Yeah, I just assumed it was their version of, like, taking your pet to the vet.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Like, I gotta put a soft muzzle on Luna sometimes.

[D]

Yeah, sure.

[A]

Doesn't like the vet. Yeah. Scared people. Yeah. Who does? Exactly. But what do you think of the Asset Containment Unit? Trying to take this thing down with non lethal weaponry tasks. Come on.

[B]

Too late. Should have been done many, many scenes ago. Is this. Is this the helicopter? This is later.

[A]

Right now it's just ACU versus the Indominus Rex. And this is where we get the awesome. I laughed out loud at that. One of my favorites. Right up there with shooter from JP1. And so you'll never guess who wins. It's the Rex. The new Rex. Just taking care of business here. So Claire orders the northern portion of the island to be evacuated. And Masrani is pondering Owen's warning. And he goes and talks to Dr. Wu and has a, you know, this conversation about what the hell were you putting in these things? Cuttlefish. That's the camouflage part.

[C]

Yeah, my bad.

[A]

And then tree frog jeans. That's the thermal technology hiding part. So he just tells him everything. And then Masrani's telling Dr. Wu shut this down. Down. And they get into a bit of a shouting Match. Yeah. Yeah.

[D]

I mean, the. The takeaway from that scene is you did this. You unleashed us.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

And this is because of the memo that you sent that basically said, I want cooler dinosaurs with more teeth. Yeah.

[A]

And he's like, how did you think we were going to do that, man?

[D]

Exactly.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. So Zach and Gray, back to them. They've sneaked away. They're exploring, as we talked about a while ago now. And they are ignoring the evacuation order and wander into a restricted area in the gyrosphere. So this is where we see this for the first time. Yeah. And this is where, I guess it's Zach, dude, off road, vip, dude. And Jimmy Fallon is in the little safety, I guess, video doing bits, talking about the technology of the Gyrosphere. Hey, props to Jimmy Fallon. He did it without laughing. Give him that. Not laughing at himself. Oh, my God. This guy laughs at absolutely everything. But, yeah, they're in this hamster ball, which. Pretty badass. Thought it looked cool.

[C]

Definitely would be an awesome ride.

[A]

Yeah. Didn't realize you could control it at first. You know, when you first see it, I'm thinking, oh, it's just man. Or automatically on some sort of path.

[D]

No, you're free, but they're free.

[C]

That's amazing.

[D]

It's like one of those swans at center island, you know?

[A]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[D]

You control it like a paddle boat one. Yeah, yeah. But it's a. It's whatever. Battery operated.

[A]

Oh, yeah. Okay. Okay. Gyrosphere. I guess this was a Spielberg idea in reading about it. Maybe he wanted to do it earlier or something. I don't know. But he's like, yeah, this be cool. It does look cool. Yeah.

[C]

Every attraction looks like it would be amazing to go on. Like, they show at one point, like the running with the Gallimimus Tour. And it's just a. That one, for whatever reason, is just like a truck.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Driving with all the herd.

[A]

More of a safari sprinting on. Yeah.

[C]

Definitely more of a safari vibe. But I thought that cool task meant mentioned the kayaking down the Brachiosaurus river would be fun.

[D]

Totally.

[C]

And then, of course, Gyrosphere looks super sweet.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

And who's the. Who's the actor? The guy. Boy, I guess the teenager running the ride. That guy just in commercials. Where's that guy from?

[D]

Stuff. For sure. He's perfect for this.

[A]

Oh, he's so good. I love everybody all pissed off with him when he shuts the ride down.

[D]

He's the. He's the human equivalent of the spirit Simpsons character. That's. Excuse me, sir. You know, just that guy. It's perfect.

[A]

So Zach and Gray in the hamster ball, they're attacked by the Indominus. Pretty cool scene here. You know, it's. It's claw goes right through this thing. And then it tries to bite it, but it's like, it's. Yeah, I wrote my notes. It's like, oh, my God. I remember doing that as a kid with those. That's what happened. Happens to it. So it's struggling to get in. They sort of escape through the bottom of it and jump off a waterfall. And there was a cool reveal, too. I thought of the Indominus again. These things always sneaking up on people. Been a theme throughout the franchise. But it's like a reflection because they're counting another dinosaur. And then Gray adds one more and it's like, oh, you see the dinosaur in the reflection of the. The gyrosphere. I thought that was pretty bad.

[D]

Yeah. I mean, look, this. This movie is derivative in the best possible ways. If you're going to reboot or, you know, fan service play on everyone's nostalgia. I mean, this is a. This is a Spielberg trick that we're using reflections. We're back in the control room that it's literally almost beat for beat. The scene from Aliens when, you know, they're in the tank and the. The colonial marines are going down and you see their vital signs. I mean, if I ever get to be a television director again, I'm going to have a screen with the entire crew's vitals on screen. Oh, that'd be cool.

[A]

Just to have check in. Check in on Tass's heart rate while he's talking about the raptors.

[D]

But, yeah, I mean, and this whole thing with the gyrosphere, that becomes basically a pinball. It's just such a great device to take a Jurassic park sequence where we're seeing dinosaurs fighting dinosaurs, and then in this new thing that we've never seen before, bouncing around and then being attacked. It just felt like as exciting as the Original T. Rex vs. The Jeep scene in the first movie. And it's just like. It just works incredibly well. Like, and it's. It's visceral and you feel like you're watching a Jurassic park movie.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Oh, I thought this was amazing.

[A]

Very, very good scene. I also thought we got a Jurassic park callback in this scene when they jump off the waterfall. And this is a big stretch, but Zach says we're gonna have to jump. One, two.

[D]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

And they jump.

[D]

That's right.

[A]

Nobody says three. Good Call big time on the electric fence. Oh, yeah. It would have been great if they had popped out of the water and Gray had gone three. Yeah, actually. Yeah, that would be perfect. Would have been so good. Great scene. Great scene. You guys like this whole dinosaur versus this ball scene here and these guys escaping.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. There's a reason why that sphere is the thing that I remember from this movie, from watching this movie or parts of this movie. That's the one.

[A]

Yes.

[D]

Yeah. That though when they jump into the, you know, off the cliff and then they're underwater. This is one of the tropes that I don't like in movies where you can have full conversations. It seems under the water, like they just jumped off of us. A 10 meter cliff into water. And then there's a shot of Zach 1. Stay. Stay under. Stay under there. There's no way that would happen. I mean, you can't see anything. First of all, there's a waterfall crashing beside them. And then right after that, Jeff Probst favorite scene when they're crawling out of the mud. You know what I mean?

[A]

Oh, yeah. It's like under the bank. Yeah.

[D]

You guys are in the park now. This is. You are reborn. Born. This is. This is you crawling out of the muck. And now you're. Now you're in the primordial stew or whatever. You know what I mean?

[B]

Primordial school.

[D]

Whatever.

[A]

Yeah. And it was like they were like, ah, they're brothers again.

[D]

Yeah, exactly. Let's bond now. Yeah, that's great.

[C]

That was a jerk.

[A]

But now he's nice.

[C]

Yeah, he loves his brother at the.

[D]

End of the day.

[A]

Yeah. Yes. Okay, cut to. In my opinion, the saddest scene we've had yet in the Jurassic park run of these four movies. I was tearing up.

[D]

You got. You got a real soft spot for these. Brachiosaurus.

[A]

I do.

[D]

Learn to spell it, man.

[A]

I'll spell it. L, O, V E. Owen and Claire finding all the dying Brachiosaurus. Yeah, I was legit. I'm tearing up thinking about it, man. That one, the main one where they're holding its head. Holy crap. And then we get the reveal. And not just that one. This IREX is taking it all down.

[C]

All my homies hate irex. I hate this thing.

[A]

Kill all our favorites. It was sad, man.

[D]

It was sad. It was legit. And you know, that was a full. When the camera, like tracks along with it. Owen is walking next to it. That thing is real. Like, they built that thing so you see the entire length of the brachiosaur as he's coming up to the head.

[A]

Yeah, that's cool.

[D]

And then the animatronics of the head itself is, is amazing.

[A]

It looked real. I'm like, that's a real dinosaur.

[D]

Right? And then, and then this is, this is the turning point for Claire, right? She sees the. She finally gets it. It's like, oh, this is an animal. And then props to them. They made a die. Like it died in front of them. Like, that was a bold choice. It was great.

[A]

It was great, right? For Claire, it went from an asset to an animal. Right there. Right there.

[D]

Exactly.

[A]

Could have used a little resuscitation attempt from Owen Hart.

[D]

Okay, you go down there. Start compressions.

[A]

I'm gonna blow into his big mouth. 1, 2, 3. Good. Dial my watch, Becky. Dude, Dude. Just a super intense, ER type scene. Oh, stay with me. I'm doing mouth to mouth with a practice.

[C]

I'm not gonna be able to forget about that.

[A]

Okay, so.

[B]

But then you'd miss out on all the inspiring that Claire does. That's what they're after.

[A]

That's right.

[D]

You're right.

[B]

It worked.

[A]

So the boys, back to the boys. They find the ruins of the original Jurassic Park Visitor Center. And we get some like, you know, you know, some great callbacks, like in terms of objects that you're seeing. They had the original banner, did they not?

[D]

And another bold choice. It's like they pick it up. You got. Michael Giacchino's score is incredible here. He takes the John Williams score. He's like single notes on the piano as we're like looking around like, remember this place? And they find the banner. That's the, the, the basically the, the, the exclamation point on the end of JP1. And he's like, you got any matches? I'm going to burn this thing. And you're almost like, no, wait, hold on. Exactly. But you're going to burn this piece of, you know, the past of the, the lore of this entire place. But yeah, I thought, I thought this scene was awesome. Awesome. Like just, just looking around and they did such a great job of dressing it up and making it looks basically in ruins. It was, it was great.

[C]

Yeah, it was very cool. The only thing that I was surprised was that they chose the red and white Jeep versus like the lime green, right? Oh, yeah, Vehicle. But I guess in Jurassic park one that was electric, guided by the tour.

[D]

Right.

[C]

So, you know.

[A]

Oh, good point.

[C]

Continuity holds up. That was a gas powered vehicle.

[A]

Do you remember when we fixed grandpa's old Tesla? Yeah.

[C]

That's good. I mean they're 15. Like how old are they? 15 and 11 something. So how old are they when they.

[B]

Feel one had the driver test?

[A]

Oh, he's a little older. 16 max. 16? Yeah, something like that.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

And then Timmy's like, yeah, Timmy Sandy. Not to be Gray.

[D]

Gray. You know what?

[A]

Timmy's hacking bugs.

[D]

Timmy in Queen now. He plays the bassist in the.

[A]

Oh, really?

[D]

Queen movie.

[A]

Yeah. I didn't know he did anything else.

[B]

You did say everything's in ruins other than the. The goggles. Seeing it.

[A]

Those look polished.

[B]

I mean, yeah, they're.

[D]

They're so bright.

[B]

There's not a freaking speck of dirt on them.

[A]

Were they in something?

[D]

Maybe.

[A]

They were thinking.

[D]

Right. Actually. Nice.

[A]

So anyway, they are like, well, let's repair this old Jeep. Which you do have to roll your eyes a little bit at.

[D]

Sure.

[A]

Considering their age and like, I guess their knowledge.

[C]

You Deski shows up in the garage. I got an idea. Just changes the battery.

[A]

Change the battery.

[C]

Hey, it works again.

[A]

So they. They drive back to the parks resort area because they're in the jeep and Owen and Claire are trailing them and they barely escape the anonymous wrecks themselves in that area because they sort of catch up up. And by the way, Claire is doing all of this in high heels. And I know this is a big talking point from this movie. It's like she's doing all of this. She never ditches the high heels.

[D]

I mean that's this. Those are the shoes she was wearing. You're telling me that you would kick off your shoes and run through a rainforest?

[A]

Well, yeah. How are you running in high heels? You'd be getting stuck in everything. She trained for you. Yeah, it's incredible.

[D]

I'm not. If I'm wearing high heels in the jungle and I'm stuck in the jungle. Well, those shoes are staying on. I'm not stepping on any.

[A]

Cut off. Cut off the heel.

[D]

Oh, Romancing the stone style. Because then your. Your toes are pointing to the sky. Come on, man.

[A]

She's like way behind. He's like, hurry up. Maybe. I know people have issues with this. There's a lot of running.

[D]

They're not thinking it through. You go out into a forest and take it to kick off your shoes and start walking around you. You put those shoes right back on.

[A]

Cuz you're saying.

[D]

Cuz just of you're gonna step on. You can step on like, like sharp. There's bugs everywhere.

[A]

There's you.

[D]

You feel very vulnerable walking around.

[A]

We're not going for A stroll in the park here, you know, where it's like, hey, what's the rush? I don't want to step on bugs or step on something prickly. I'm being chased by a damn monster. Yeah, I think I can run faster barefoot than I can in high in.

[D]

In a pinch. Maybe the problem is if she kicks them off, then she has to be without the shoes for the entire time.

[C]

Yeah, Quentin Tarantino would have.

[D]

Yeah, exactly. Well, maybe Trevorrow has a thing for heels. I don't know.

[C]

Great point.

[D]

I mean, and, you know, skipping ahead, when she takes out that pterodactyl, it's an awesome look. And it wouldn't look the same if she wasn't wearing barefoot.

[A]

Yeah, you're right.

[D]

It wouldn't look the same.

[A]

You're right, you're right. It looks cool. Okay, so Masrani and two troopers are hunting the Indominus by helicopter. He is back in control, but now without his instructor. His instructor? That guy just bounced, I guess.

[D]

Well, they sort of. There's a throwaway line where they say he's probably caught up in the evacuation or whatever. It's like he's probably got the out of here in his other helicopter.

[A]

That's what I was wondering. How did he get out anyway? But he's flying it. And this is where we have the Indominus rex breaking into the park's. Well, Pterodactyl aviary. But these are not pterodactyls like T. Rex heads. These are pterosaurs, I guess, I think is what these ones are. There's too many of these flying things, man. They all get different names.

[C]

Yeah, there's a lot. It looks like there's a lot of species flying around. Yeah, some big guys, they got some medium guys. Like I said, they got T. Rex head ones. But it's bad.

[A]

It's.

[C]

When there's a hole.

[A]

Yeah, it's bad. There's a hole there. No, no, we get a shot of. I guess Hoskins is in the control room. Room. Looks like the fox got into the hen house. Oh, yeah.

[C]

You'Re recording this, aren't you?

[A]

Yeah. That's crazy, man. People are like, more and more people are going to die. This guy's like, oh, yeah, I just get to get those raptors going. But yeah, the fleeing flying dinos, they caused the helicopter to crash. This is a crazy scene. Kills everybody aboard deuces to Ms. Ronnie, our guy, he goes down on top of the Aviary, which makes even a bigger hole. Yeah, it was one thing when the dinosaur went through on the side and then he's trying to chomp all these little guys, pterosaurs or whatever they are, and they're like. Some of them are making their way out. Sure. But once that there's a hole at the top.

[B]

Oh yeah.

[A]

They're like, let's go, let's go.

[C]

We're going after the helicopter. I like that. Where like they eat the guy off. Off hanging off the gun.

[D]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

On the helicopter before they actually crashed. But man, I'm never going on a helicopter.

[D]

Yeah, right.

[A]

Never going on a helicopter.

[D]

No, no interest.

[C]

They're not meant to fly. Look, you can make a paper airplane and it flies. Make a paper helicopter for a reason. The physics don't make sense.

[D]

That's right.

[C]

Helicopters are almost. Are meant to crash.

[A]

They're pretty cool. I have been.

[D]

They are pretty cool. Yeah, they are pretty cool. But I would be reluctant to get on one.

[A]

Well, I wouldn't do one if I was in Jurassic World, I'll say that. Yeah.

[D]

No, I mean, this is a great. This is another. I mean his, the, his final demise is like, you know, the final hubris that not only leads to his own death, but makes the situation infinitely worse with all these flying predators flying around. Like, it's just. This is great. I love it.

[C]

Icarus moment for sure. Close to the sun and trash it down. The other thing I thought was seeing all those different bird ones, you know, all the different looks. I was like, some of them, like I said, I think they look like they have T. Rex heads. They don't look like the normal, like.

[A]

Yeah, angular look head.

[C]

And I just want to see more and more freak show dinosaurs. Like, not all of these experiments could have gone well. Like, I want to see the one that has 18 legs on it, you know, like three heads.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Make it extra scary.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Which, you know, look, we still got three more movies. Who knows what happens once we get to Dominion. I don't know.

[A]

Okay, Yeah, I hadn't thought of that. And really, they should have just, I mean, like they said way back in the day, Jurassic park one, like just have a fail safe, like switch that you can just go, boop. And the thing dies.

[D]

I thought that was sort of talked about, wasn't it?

[A]

Like in this one.

[D]

Yeah. Like the tracker is going to, you know, shock it if it gets too close to the perimeter or something. There's a line in there. But then, of course, the tracker gets dug out. Yeah, but that was just the Indominus. You would think that the Rest of them had.

[A]

Yeah. Like these flying birds, like just put something on them. Like they just start dropping out of the sky. I mean, I know they don't want to because of all the money they've put into them, but you also. They're going to go attack the resort here.

[D]

Yep.

[A]

Figure it out. So the pterosaurs converge on the resort and they are attacking everyone, including the babysitter, guide, whatever you want to call her.

[D]

Best, best death in Jurassic Park.

[B]

Really good so far.

[A]

Rank the deaths. That's a. That's good. I like that idea.

[D]

I mean, absolutely harrowing what happens to her.

[A]

And it's awesome because she gets picked up by the birds. Either. Pterodactyls, tossed around. And then of course, the mosasaurus, the huge water animal.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Just devours.

[D]

But even when she. They drop her over the water, you see her in the water and then you see the. Whatever, the flying creatures dive down after her. It's just great. It's incredible. She might still be alive because she's in the belly of Moses.

[C]

Things like a Jonah and the whale.

[D]

Maybe Zara and the whale in there with.

[A]

She's like, you're not having the bachelor party. Your friends were animals.

[C]

This last 40 seconds, her death, like, did it really orchard.

[D]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[C]

And look, every death in Jurassic park is motivated. Not this one.

[A]

One.

[D]

This.

[C]

She did nothing wrong.

[D]

She lost the kids. This is. This is the classic slasher movie. Babysitter gets killed.

[C]

Claire lost the kids.

[D]

No, Claire abandoned the kids.

[C]

Yeah, exactly.

[A]

You can.

[C]

You can list several people who should have died this death before this woman died.

[D]

Yeah, fair enough.

[C]

Number one, Hoskins. Number two. Probably Claire. Number three, Ma.

[A]

What about the dad? Scott. Scott? Yeah, yeah, Scott. I think it's his name.

[D]

Doesn't. He doesn't want a divorce. Maybe. You don't know.

[A]

I don't know. He seemed pretty happy that it was the last breakfast they were ever having. Anyway, this thing is like. I've never seen the movies, but. Is this the Meg You've seen every movie?

[C]

No, I took eight years off of movies and then I've started catching up on them. So if we ever do a series on the Meg. I think there's more than one, isn't there?

[D]

There's at least two.

[A]

There we go. Yeah, it's same concept.

[B]

I think this is Meg.

[A]

Yeah, it's mega Jace.

[D]

Scary.

[C]

Mega G's.

[A]

Yeah. Tough, tough. Death for Zara for sure.

[B]

No, but it's so good.

[D]

It is good.

[C]

That's death for sure.

[A]

Anytime The Mosasaurus makes an appearance. I'm like, hell yeah. Like, I love this thing. This giant whale rocks or whatever it is.

[B]

Yeah, no, I'm fine with it. You're an assistant. You're an executive assistant. That's her job job. And he had one job.

[A]

Yeah, she was distracted by her phone.

[D]

Yeah, but I hear what you're saying. Trey, I thought you're. You're right. I mean, what, What?

[B]

What?

[D]

That's unmotivated.

[C]

This is the first woman who has died in Jurassic park franchise, period.

[A]

Whoa. Is that true?

[D]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

No, that's something.

[B]

She made an ass. She made an ass out of herself.

[A]

How?

[D]

Well, why does it have to be motivated?

[C]

That makes death is motivated.

[D]

Did not. This one. It's scary. This is.

[A]

This is.

[D]

She's an innocent victim.

[A]

There are way more deaths in this movie than any of the other ones, right? Oh, yeah, because when you. Yeah, definitely. All the ACU guys dropping like flies.

[B]

Her.

[A]

Other people at that resort were definitely dying too. In the attack.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

We don't maybe see them, but yeah. Then obviously the. The. The pen at the T. Rex or the Irex. Excuse me, The Irex. Nobody calls it that. Okay, so Zach and Gray, they eventually arrive, the brothers. They arrive at the resort and then they eventually find Owen and Claire who arrive and. Yeah, you already brought up the scene where Claire saves Owen from one of these pterosaurs on top of them. Boom. Shoots it. Then they kiss.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

And they see it, the boys see it and they're like, who the hell is this?

[D]

Ah, a co worker, just a coworker, colleague of mine.

[A]

And I guess sort of armed troopers subdue the pterosaur enough, they start taking them down.

[D]

Yeah, I guess. But there's still a full on panic. And you know, there's this weird part where they're behind the scenes, I guess, and they're the. The gates are crashing open towards them and you think it's going to be a dinosaur, but it's actually just people from the park. Like. And then they're like worried about getting stampede and they're in a Mercedes, like reverse it. Yeah, exactly.

[C]

I didn't really know where they were at.

[A]

I didn't know.

[D]

They seemed like behind, like behind everything. Like area.

[A]

Oh, everybody's trying to get off Main Street.

[B]

Yeah, that's when Zack and Gray, as Owen does his smooth reversal, they say, whoa, that's awesome, man. Cuz he's able to clear out of the. The people.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And he's like, wow, you drive a car really cool. I Failed my test. You're awesome. I wish I could be you. Then they later say, wow, your boyfriend's so cool. Declare. Yeah, he's awesome. Chris Pratt's awesome.

[A]

So they get away. Hoskins then assumes command. He decides to use the Raptors to track the Indominus. Owen reluctantly agrees to go along with this plan. What are you gonna do at this point? This thing's loose. We gotta take it down. Let's give it a go. Let me get McClicker and the Raptors follow the Indominus scent into the jungle. What did they, what did they use?

[D]

I guess they showed the piece of flesh that had the tracker still in it. He put it in front of that.

[A]

That's what it was.

[D]

Yeah, like, follow this thing.

[A]

Go get this thing. And meanwhile, Claire and the boys, they're watching the chase unfold on an iPad. Yeah, like, you know, control as you do. Control center has been piped or Bluetooth mirrored to the iPad. They're in the back, which was a weird decision. Guess you'll be safe back here, not up front with me. There's definitely room up front if you wanted to sit up here. But anyway, they're watching everything unfold. And this is where we get. Well, the reveal that the Indominus got a little Raptor in them because they get to him, the Raptors do, and they communicate with him and he's like the Indominus Rex. Like, no, no, no, no, I'm on your side. I'm the real Alpha here. And they turn around, the Raptors do to face the humans, to basically attack them. Him. What a heel turn.

[C]

Oh, got new Alpha.

[A]

Exactly, exactly. So the troops fire on the Indominus. It sort of escapes. But then the Raptors slaughter most of the soldiers though. One Raptor down, Charlie goes first.

[D]

Oh, was it Charlie?

[A]

I was. I think it's Charlie gets taken out. So we got three Raptors remaining. But thoughts on the. On the reveal here of the Raptors going, oh, they're talking to the big guy. Oh, he's got part Raptors in them.

[C]

Yeah, I mean, I actually didn't see it coming that this guy was going.

[A]

To be part Raptor.

[C]

But then he does a little like the little like horse move that Raptors do. And this is when you realize all of the things that Owen has been doing that Hoskins wants to use these Raptors for. It's not going to work. The very first time they get put into a situation, they freak out and kill all the people that they have been working with for Months and months at this point.

[A]

Mm, yeah, you do. Maybe you see better shots of the Indominus Rex, but we get some good arm shots of this thing, or you start to go, oh, yeah, I see a little raptor in them.

[D]

Sure, sure.

[A]

Absolutely. Definitely. So you're like, okay, okay. When he's talking to him, I was a little surprised too, like, oh, damn, Damn. All right, let's go. And it was like a wrestling heel turn. It was like, oh, man, what a group this is. Yeah. New judgment day just dropped. What do you think? Anything to add to Shady?

[D]

I mean, you know, it's super fun, seeing as unrealistic as it is, but just the motorcycle with the raptors, you know, flying through the jungle, it's just a cool shot. It's just fun. They're moving.

[A]

Cool.

[D]

Even Owen himself is like, I was against this idea from the beginning, but he's like, God damn. This is. This is pretty awesome, man.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

That'S right. And you know, as. As far as Hoskins goes, yeah, like, this was a not a good idea, but it was the only idea. Everybody was incompetent up to this point.

[C]

Disagree. Disagree. How?

[D]

Why?

[C]

When they are in the control room and the Indominus breaks out immediately, Owen is like, blow it up. Yeah, evacuate the park. Blow everything up here.

[A]

That's what he says.

[C]

And Hoskins is like, nah. Ah, we got raptors to fight him. And guess what? The raptors don't work.

[A]

Even Matani at that point was like, no, we're not doing that yet.

[D]

Matti was like, that was the reason they didn't blow him up. Because of Matti.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

And, well, the question is, did Hoskins know that there was raptor in the Indominus? Because if he doesn't know, then it's kind of a crazy idea, but it just might work. But if he already knows there's raptor in the Indominus, then it's a crazy. This is stupid.

[A]

Oh, that's a good point. Point. Yeah. I mean, Dr. Wu knows and they're working together.

[D]

He's in Gen, so you would think that he would know. Yeah, but.

[A]

Yeah, but I don't think he did.

[D]

I don't think he did either.

[A]

For Hoskins. Yeah, I don't think he knew there was raptor DNA in the Indominus Rex. That's my guess. I don't know why. Yeah, but speaking of Hoskins, he has. Dr. Wu helicoptered off the island with the dinosaur embryo. Embryos protecting the research. And this is where we do get that little comic relief scene between Lowry and Vivian? We already talked about it. Yes, sure. Okay. Yep. Owen and Claire and the boys, they find Hoskins in the lab. He is packing up the remaining embryos. I don't know why Dr. Wu could. I guess only one carry on he could take.

[D]

That's right.

[A]

So he had to go and get some more. And Hoskins unveils. Excuse me. His intention to create more genetically modified dinosaurs as weapons. And so they're having this sort of, like, debate, obviously. And this is when Delta breaks into the lab, the. The raptor, and straight up bites his hand. Hoskins hands and then kills him.

[D]

Yeah. This is the death that we want. We're all waiting for. But I have to say, Owen, he has a clicker on him.

[A]

Him.

[D]

He's right behind the raptor. He never used the clicker. And you know what else he had on him? A gun.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Like, literally, he's holding a rifle. Like, I know, I know they have their differences, but you're just gonna let the guy die? You're just gonna let him die. That's very out of character for a while.

[A]

This is like the conundrum. Like you're hanging over the side of a cliff and you got your dog in one hand and then a stranger, let's say the other, and you only have the energy to pull. Pull up one.

[D]

Right.

[A]

Who are you pulling up? That's what Owen's doing, Right. He's got the. He's got Blue in one hand and Hoskins in the other. He drops Hoskins, man.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

And it's the right decision.

[D]

Okay. I mean, it's a moral conundrum, I suppose.

[A]

I guess.

[D]

I guess he could have at least clicked is all I'm saying.

[C]

He could have clicked, gave it a shot.

[D]

Yeah. Gotta go.

[A]

Or at least Delta.

[D]

Yeah, exactly.

[A]

Delta. I don't.

[C]

He's like.

[A]

He's like, yeah, have at it.

[C]

See, I don't like that Hoskins dies off screen.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

You want to see him?

[C]

He's the guy that should get torn in half. Like, he should die the most gruesome death in this movie. He's the worst guy in this movie.

[A]

Yeah. And he just gets his hand that we see. Exactly. Yeah. And that's it.

[C]

He dies, like, behind a screen and, like, blood splatters on a piece of glass.

[A]

Y. Yeah.

[C]

He should have gotten absolutely eviscerated. I was rooting for it. From the second you see him, you're like, I cannot wait to see the way this Guy dies and you don't.

[A]

Even see him die. A little disappointment.

[B]

It was a little anticlimactic tactic. I do like the pacing of it. He. The bluey. Is it bluey?

[A]

Delta, I think Delta.

[B]

Sorry. Yes, Delta. Delta.

[A]

Actually track.

[C]

I can't visually identify it that well.

[B]

Delta waits a second before. A couple seconds before the. The nibble of the hand before biting this. So the pacing is good but it would be nice to see Hoskins get bitten. But how do we know that that Owen does has the clicker? I think. I think it's in his other cargo shorts.

[D]

Established. He hasn't changed.

[B]

He hasn't changed but he's been going through some stuff.

[A]

He did change, right. Because we saw him at the velociraptor pen.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Then he went back to the bungalow. Was in different clothes.

[D]

You're telling me he didn't take his clicker with him on the motorcycle into the jungle with. But he never did.

[A]

He clicked on the motorcycle ride.

[D]

It's hard to click when you're driving motorcycle.

[A]

He needs a bell on his motorcycle.

[C]

That's another question. Which if you are okay. If you're Barry and Owen. Barry is on a four wheeler.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Owen is on a motorcycle and I just think a four wheeler is better through for going through the jungle.

[A]

Through the jungle? Yeah.

[D]

No way. You think it gets too wide? You. You want what?

[C]

You want stability.

[A]

Stability.

[D]

But you want to like get in. You want to. To go in different. Like little craggy.

[A]

They both have their pros and cons for sure. Maybe that's why they have one of each. Barry, you take this one. Okay.

[C]

Owen is going faster and I mean, you know, like Barry is in worse situation. He gets stuck in that log. Just yells.

[A]

Yeah, Barry's good. Yeah, Barry's okay. Barry would go on to open up a boot camp.

[D]

Barry comes back, spoiler alert. Really good. I like Barry.

[A]

I want more of them.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Barry was underutilized.

[A]

Yeah. Glad to hear it. Okay, good. So outside, too much French though.

[D]

Well, a lot of it.

[B]

Can't you swear in English?

[D]

The second language is English. Well of course you're going to swear in French.

[A]

Do you think the raptors can understand them in French too?

[D]

Oh, great question, great question.

[B]

Absolutely.

[A]

They don't know any different. If they're that smart they should be. Yeah, they should. They do. Yeah. Okay.

[B]

I don't. But they do.

[A]

Outside the raptors corner, Owen, Claire and the boys. But Owen reestablishes his alpha bond with them before the indominus appear. So he takes back control of the remaining three at that point. Raptors. Yeah, a lot more of this.

[D]

Lot, lot of this.

[A]

A lot of this. No, no, he's not clicking right? He's not clicking.

[D]

Not clicking. Maybe he doesn't have his.

[A]

A crutch. Yeah.

[D]

Know I have to really go back and keep tracks of that clicker. I guess. He takes off the harness, right. He frees the bond.

[A]

Blue. That is blue for sure. The other ones got theirs knocked off during battles.

[D]

Do we see that?

[A]

Yeah, you see. You actually see it with all them. I think.

[D]

Wow.

[A]

Of when they come off. Okay. I think Blue at that point is the only one left with that thing on.

[D]

Right.

[A]

So okay, they attack. Obviously I said the Indominus appears and you know they're ready to rep for the humans again. They attack the Indominus but Delta and Echo, they're killed. Well, Blue gets knocked unconscious right away.

[C]

Yeah, Blue gets thrown against the Starbucks.

[A]

I think he gets knocked out.

[C]

Blasted.

[A]

Yeah. And then the other two try their best but yeah, they're. They're taken out. And then realizing that they are outmatched. I think this is Gray, right? Yeah, he's like, like we need more teeth. He's like doing the calculations on the teeth there. Going to take this thing down. So that's when Claire goes lures the park's veteran, the OG T Rex into battle with the Indominus. Thank God Lowry stayed in the control room cuz he was there to open it up. Otherwise I don't know. You can't manual override these gates or whatever like at the scene, right? Guess not. Not.

[C]

Yeah, guess not.

[A]

They're screwed if he doesn't stay back. T. Rex. Yeah. Overpowered at first. The Indominus is winning.

[C]

Dog walking the T Rex.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, but give it to him. But Blue comes in. Blue like remains conscious and he comes in, he's attacking. And the Raptor and the T. Rex, they force the now overwhelmed Indominus towards the lagoon. It's Mamasaurus time. Mosasaurus. Excuse me. Where it's dragged underwater.

[B]

Yeah, I bought Mama because Tyrannosaurus. Tyrannosaurus is a female. T Rex is a female. So I bought the Mama. Source coming in.

[A]

So. But it's the Mosasaurus that drags the Indominus into the lagoon, into the water. Whatever. Great teamwork. I wrote in my notes all around. They all played their part. The T. Rex, Blue and. And this guy. Yep.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Or girl.

[D]

That's slightly convenient but very satisfying. Yeah, very satisfying. And seeing the T Rex Come out was great.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[D]

And then seeing him get his ass.

[A]

With the flare that Claire had, which.

[D]

Is the callback run absolutely gold bloom. I mean Claire, you know, Claire's really kind of screwing the T. Rex over. He's like following a flare. He thinks he's going to get some food. He's got. Oh, there must be a goat at the end of this. It's a goddamn him. And Dominus Rex just chucks like that.

[C]

It bounces off.

[A]

I've never seen a goat like that.

[D]

Immediately gets his ass handed to her or her ass handed to her. And yeah, you think that T. Rex is going to die, but it's just buying them more time. But yeah. And I love how beat up all of the dinosaurs are. And all of our original dinosaurs are fa. Like they're the heroes now. It's just.

[A]

I mean these are. These are our three favorite. Well besides Brachiosaurus, but our three carnivores that we love. We got Rexy, Sexy Rexy.

[D]

Y.

[A]

We got Blue. We fallen in love with immediately.

[D]

Right. And our new friend, our new favorite.

[A]

Yeah. Mosasaurus. Yes. And I thought I was watching. Legal tag was made. Mosaurus was the legal dinosaur. And I thought good suplex into the water. If you watch it from the neck.

[C]

It was actually like very royal Rumble esque.

[A]

The way that all three have to.

[C]

Team up to get the giant one and throw over the edge of the ropes. The ropes here being the fence to the water for the Mosasaur.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Convenient for sure. Kind of a little silly. Like they like the power of friendship with raptors is what ends up turning the tide. You know, after we've spent three movies being completely terrified of raptors. Now they're cool and cuddly. All of that's a little bit silly. But when Claire goes and releases Rexy from the cage.

[D]

Paddock.

[C]

Yeah, the paddock. I was like, like watching. And then I was like, let's go screen. Rexy is back.

[A]

Little bit of chills.

[C]

That was awesome.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. For sure. Yeah. So after the Indominus is gone. Sexy Rexy Blue. They say goodbye.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Right.

[B]

They know.

[A]

They know.

[B]

They know they got to go their separate ways.

[A]

I like great communication. I like how they both take up like. I love that. There's a great shot of Blue Lou running down the now destroyed main street.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Like takes off and they sort of. The humans come out, say goodbye. Please write like I said. Yep.

[C]

See you around.

[A]

Survivors evacuated to the mainland. Zach and Gray reunited with their parents. Owen and Claire decide they will Stay together for survival. But not again. Not another kiss at all.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Almost shocking, if I'm being honest. I know they've kissed once, but it's.

[D]

A lot of people there. Seems inappropriate to kiss in like a. A triage area of like, you know, it's like these are like survivors of a absolutely traumatic ordeal. You know, it's like, oh, these two people are making out. And that one shot, I mean, this is super movie nerdy, but when they. When they. When you see them walking out, walking out, like Raiders of the Lost Ark. The end of Raiders of the Lost Ark with all the crates and stuff, it's just like the. It conjures that up again. This movie is derivative in the best possible way.

[A]

And then back on the now abandoned Isla Nublar, Sexy Rexy, our hero goes up to the helicopter landing pad and roars in victory. She is once again the queen of the island.

[D]

In your face, Masrani. Right on your favorite spot, the Alice pad.

[A]

You think? Sexy Rexy. He knew that.

[D]

He knew.

[A]

She. Please.

[D]

Sorry. She. She.

[A]

All right, that's it. That's Jurassic World. Banger. Good movie.

[B]

Real.

[C]

I can't believe how much I liked it. Oh, this is going to be ridiculous. Basically, like, the cadence of these movies follows, like the Fast and Furious franchise. They're like kind of small. First movie, you know, like well contained, the story is told. Second one doesn't quite fit in. Third one feels like a completely different story. Almost take a huge break off, you come back and things are amped up and more ridiculous. That's how they did it in Fast and Furious. So I was expecting this is gonna be too ridiculous and maybe we'll get there eventually in the series. But I was on board for this one.

[D]

I mean, and a family theme as well, right? You got the brothers, you got the two sisters who have reconcile in the end. I don't know if the couple got back together, but, you know, know, and then you got Claire and Owen maybe you know, coming together as a family. They're all family now. They're all part of the Jurassic park family. It's all about family.

[C]

Do you think that the mom and.

[A]

Dad got back together? No, I don't think so.

[C]

I think they still went through with it.

[D]

Never.

[A]

Never had family breakfast again. No, I don't think so.

[C]

Unless they had, like a snack in the triage area. No kissing, but maybe some snacks. But, man, what a terrible weekend for these kids.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Worst Christmas break.

[D]

Vel, I'm God. Yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

If they didn't get back together.

[A]

Yeah, that's a good point. It is a Christmas movie. I forgot about that part. Jesus. Okay, well, let's. We'll.

[B]

I never thought of it as a Christmas movie.

[A]

I think I'm the only person to ever call it.

[B]

Does it fall under that category?

[A]

It's a real diehard.

[B]

Yeah, exactly.

[A]

Favorite scene, though. Favorite scene and favorite character. Or die. So let's do them all at once here.

[C]

The favorite.

[B]

Well, scene and characters. I mean, I'm. I'm all in the kids right now. I'm all about kids right now. So I'm. I'm with Zach and Gray when they are able to tase that dinosaur at the end when they're in the car.

[A]

Oh, yeah, there is that.

[B]

They're in there in the Jeep. They're flying back. Yeah. Claire is flying and, you know, she closes the back window thing. Like, she's like. They're in the back of a cab.

[D]

Don't look up here.

[B]

And they're able to because the back doors are open. Use the taser. And that's a little guy that's. That's Gray, I guess. Who's. Who does that?

[A]

Yeah. Yeah.

[B]

So that's super cool. That's super cool.

[A]

That's a call back to. That's the Lost World, I guess.

[D]

Right.

[A]

Deder on the copies. Okay. Trey, what about you? Favorites?

[C]

My favorite scene is the Tyranadon or whatever. The flying attack. You know, the birds basically going nuts and devouring.

[A]

Zara.

[C]

I think she got done dirty. Done dirty overall, by the way the movie treats her. But I love that scene. I'm just a sucker for dinosaurs. Coming from above, I think, is what it is. That's why I like the Lost World or Jurassic Park 3.

[A]

Right.

[C]

As well. He introduced the flying creatures and I'm in. My favorite character was Lowry. I thought it was very funny. And I also love the kid who is like the. The park employee running the drivers.

[A]

He's perfect.

[B]

He's so fitted.

[A]

My job.

[C]

I thought he was hilarious. Favorite dino? The Mosasaur, of course.

[A]

Okay. J.D.

[D]

I'M a raptor man through and through.

[A]

Homer.

[D]

The gyroscope scene I thought was great. You know, just a new vehicle that we've literally never seen before and a new dinosaur that we've never seen before. You know, fighting dinosaurs and then the kids escape and then jumping off the cliff I thought was great. There is one Hollywood first, or at least I. I always keep track of movies when people are on the phone together. And you know how no one ever says bye? Like, never. They'll they'll just end a call and they'll go, all right, then hang up.

[A]

Right.

[D]

Both Judy Greer and Bryce Dallas Howard say goodbye on the phone. When they're talking to each other after they. They've talked, I'm like. I paused it. I rewound it. I was like, wow, that, like, this is. I have not seen this, I don't think, ever, in a movie when both parties say, okay, bye. All right, bye.

[B]

Yeah, two bys. That's.

[D]

Yeah, it's just. It's. It's very rare. It's very.

[A]

Wow. I'm gonna be watching for that.

[D]

Watch out for it shows.

[A]

I was gonna ask you guys what. What potential corporate sponsor dinosaur name do you prefer more Pepsi Saurus or Tostito? Dawn?

[D]

That sounds like an actual. Like, that could be. If you told me. Oh, that's a Tostito done.

[A]

I think Pepsi Saurus rolls off the tongue.

[D]

It does. Yeah.

[A]

I couldn't even say the second one.

[D]

Yeah. But that's why I think it's more legit, because you can't.

[A]

Because I'm just screwing up every single dinosaur name throughout this series. Yeah. I got a lot of talking to do. I've struggled at times. Larnix. Larynx. I still don't know how to say it.

[C]

They say, I thought it was ankylosaur, and they call it ankylosaur in this one.

[A]

And again, these. These flying ones. I've said three different things. Which one are they?

[B]

Pepsisaurus.

[A]

Would I like Pepsi Source?

[B]

It would do well.

[D]

It'S no blowy.

[B]

But it's closer to blowy than the other one.

[A]

Way better.

[B]

The other one. I mean, that. Four syllables. Indominus. I mean.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

I think the Indominus is good, though.

[B]

It is good.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

I'm good on it now.

[A]

So random notes, observations. I got a few for you guys. Dr. Ian Malcolm can be spotted on the COVID of a book that is read by Zara.

[D]

Wow.

[A]

On the monorail ride into the park. Okay. And then a copy of the same book titled God Creates Dinosaurs is later shown on Lowry's desk in the control room. So that's our little Dr. Melbourne. Welcome. Salute.

[C]

Do you think that's the book that Eric read and said that he was too high on himself?

[A]

I think so.

[C]

Interesting. I'd love to hear Zara's thoughts. Unfortunately, she's in the belly of a mosasaur.

[A]

She's reading it in there. Got a little candle. This is fun because this is what we're doing, watching all these movies. Remember Jurassic Park 1, when we talked about, I think the kid's name was Eddie back at the dig site really early in the movie. Also known as Six foot Turkey boy. So there's a popular fan theory that Owen Grady, Chris Pratt, is the grown up version of that boy that Dr. Grant intimidated with the raptor claw. Back in. Back in Jurassic Park 1. I love it. But the actor that played Eddie, I forget the guy's name, but he was like, are you kidding me? You think I turned out to look like Chris Pratt? Chris Pratt said about it. That's what he said about himself.

[D]

There's like no way Chris Pratt in Parks of Rec maybe, you know, so.

[A]

I thought that was a fun one. And then finally, my final note here. Maybe you guys have some first movie in the franchise that does not have a scene that takes place during a torrential downpour. Wow. We had had a torrential downpour scene in all three movies prior. The T. Rex escaping scene in Jurassic Park 1. The trailer cliff scene in the Lost World and others, if we're being honest. And the riverboat scene in Jurassic Park 3.

[D]

Damn.

[A]

No torrential downpour. So that is the time to go to the island around Christmas, late December.

[C]

Summer's the rainy season. Okay, I guess that does make it like a. The good time to go is the. Is the winter. Right. Because you're like, you're going to be able to get to go out in the park.

[D]

Yep.

[C]

They're not going to, you know, like be hidden away trying to shelter themselves.

[A]

Okay. Yeah.

[C]

It all adds up.

[A]

Yep. Any other notes you guys wanted to add here before we rank this bad boy?

[C]

I like when they're running away from the Indominus right at the end, they're running through like the museum part of stuff. And Gray just slaps like the visualizer or whatever. And prior, we had seen a brachiosaur and there looks huge hologram or something like that. And this one, when he slaps it, it's like yelling, poison one. It's the only time we see that one in this. I thought that was pretty cool.

[A]

And that and the. I don't know which raptor it was, but they're like confused when it goes into it tries the fight. That's the. Is that the Dilophos?

[D]

Dilophosaurus.

[A]

Dilophosaurus. Yeah.

[C]

Okay, nice.

[A]

The back to the old one. Yeah, yeah. That is cool. I like that. Okay, anything else, guys? JD Tass anything that now? Yeah, yeah.

[D]

Like got everything out of my notes.

[A]

All right, well, let's. Let's talk about Ranking this and rating it Rotten Tomatoes. They like this movie. Critics, 72%. That's fresh. Fans like it even more. 78% is where Jurassic World stands with the people on Rotten Tomatoes. Now, I have no Roger Ebert review here or how many stars he gave it because unfortunately he had passed by the time this movie came out. So he never got to get to Jurassic World. Just like John Hammond. Yes. Well, I guess Hammond was there. Well, when did John Hammond die in the. In the movie franchise? We don't know. Like, he was a part of this maybe. No. Yes.

[D]

I mean, they named the center after him. Like Hammond center or whatever.

[A]

But did he ever make it to Jurassic World?

[D]

It's a great question.

[A]

I don't know.

[D]

I don't know.

[A]

Anyway, no Roger Ebert review, but on a scale of 1 to 10, how do you rank Jurassic World and where do you slot it in TAs with the other three we've watched?

[B]

It's a nine out of ten for me. Yeah. All the Dinos versus one. It's.

[A]

It's great.

[B]

The raptors turning to the good side. I adore it. Yeah. Maybe they have a human to animal connection with Owen. You know, there's that part. The pacing is great. It feels more like the original Jurassic park where it's just timed so well. So, yeah, I loved everything.

[A]

Two hours flew by.

[B]

I did not check the clock for one second.

[A]

Unlike the Lost World, which was dragging.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

At times. I'm with you. This one is more like Jurassic park one where it's. @ least the pace of it is good.

[B]

Yes, yes, yes.

[A]

Okay, so nine out of ten.

[B]

Pacing is so good. Yeah.

[A]

So you've got it just behind Jurassic Park. So second best movie so far.

[D]

So far.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

TK Is the Mosasaurus a real dinosaur or was this a lab creation?

[A]

I think it is.

[D]

I think it is too, but I actually don't know.

[A]

Yeah, I. I think it is.

[C]

I kind of think so, too.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

So I do like that in the end, it turns out that the original pure dinosaurs are the ones that took down the souped up Hollywood version of dinosaurs. I think it's telling a nice little story about. About remakes and IP and the way things change, but maybe they don't necessarily need to change. This, to me, is more of a straight up monster movie than any of the other ones so far that we've seen. And they've got that scene in the lab early on when Bryce Dallas Howard is explaining all of the things they're doing. Basically saying things are gonna get crazy. It's not gonna be realistic. So if you buy in, then I think you should like this movie for it was a 7 of 10 for me. I couldn't believe, believe how enjoyable I thought this was because I thought it was going to be complete nonsense. And I mean, there's obviously nonsense. There is a Jurassic park, the original as well. So they play on your nostalgia. They hit the beats that you need to see. And even though I do think they did the T. Rex a little bit dirty, getting destroyed by the Irex, I like that it comes back and wins in the end. So I like this one. It was good.

[A]

According to my Google machine here, the Mosasaurus, it was real.

[D]

Okay.

[A]

But I guess it wasn't a dinosaur. It's really just a giant reptile. Okay. Yeah. But anyway, it was real. They got fossils. So there you go. So that's perfect. I'm with you on that. Yeah. Cool. All right. Seven out of ten for you, J.D. what about you?

[D]

It's an eight for me.

[A]

Yep.

[D]

I thought it was a perfectly, as I've said before, very derivative, but in the best possible way. It's. It hits all the right notes. It feels like Jurassic park arc more so than the other two sequels. It does feel like a reboot as well.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

But I like that the themes are still there. The Frankenstein's monster is still there. We have a Hammond like character. And I like Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard. I think they do have chemistry. And I like that there's a scoundrel. Back in Jurassic park. We haven't had an Ian Malcolm. So Pratt kind of is a bit of a Pratt. He's. He's kind of a dick. But it's nice to have a. A hero that's a bit of a dick, but you love him anyways kind of thing. And I was just along for the ride and I bought in and all of its flaws sort of melted away for me. Like, I just loved it. So, yeah, 8 out of 10 is no Jurassic park, but. No, it is a serviceable. As a fan, I feel serviced. You know what I mean?

[A]

Right.

[D]

Like, it was. It was hitting all the right buttons for me.

[A]

So I agree with you guys. I have an 8 out of 10. So I have it slotted basically in the exact same spot as you guys coming after Jurassic park, the original, it just looked awesome.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

And that's like, we kept talking about Jurassic park one like back in 93. Like, it looks so awesome. Everything looks cool about this park now It's a world. And they just like amped it up. And. Yeah. Like, I don't. I was thinking about it, like, I didn't love Chris Pratt in it. Like, I feel like it felt like it could have been a bunch of other actors, I guess, in that role. But I didn't hate them either, by any means. I didn't mind their chemistry, so to speak. We're gonna have them moving forward here, right? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So guess we get used to it. But, yeah, I mean, all the things we went over. I was amazed how much I liked this movie. Like, what you said, TK I couldn't believe it. I thought it was gonna be complete garbage. I know that some of these coming up have to be. Oh, yeah, Right. And I don't think I've watched any. Like, I think I caught parts of this, like we said, maybe on a plane. Everything else moving forward, I haven't seen. But I know there's, like, not the greatest reviews for some, so we'll find out together. But maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised. But right now, most of us have it go in Jurassic park, then Jurassic World, then Jurassic Park 3, then Lost World. But JD differ on us with those last two. But bang, bang, right there. Okay, well, that's Jurassic World. Fourth one done. Tas, we have three left.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was locked in at six for some reason.

[A]

So we have the Fallen Kingdom. Kingdom is next.

[D]

Yes.

[A]

Then we have Dominion.

[D]

Yes.

[A]

And then we have Rebirth.

[D]

Rebirth.

[A]

The most recent one just released. Okay, well, if you appreciate Jurassic Pals, if you're enjoying this, hit the like button. Subscribe. Let's hear your thoughts on Jurassic World. Let us know in the comments. We're back next Friday. Owen and Claire, back in our lives. Jurassic World, Fallen Kingdom. Till then, Got a quote this time. Remember, the key to a happy life life is to accept you are never actually in control. Embrace the day people.