Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom [DVD] [2018]

Brilliant flim

This is a great film and well worth buying on 4k as the picture and sound are great and at a great price as well

A new movie in the Jurassic Park franchise. Sequel to 'Jurassic World' and you do really need to have seen that in order to get into this. It's three years since the events of that film. Owen and Claire haven't exactly lived happily ever after. But are reunited when the volcano on the island where the park was becomes active. And it's a race to save the dinosaurs. But then they find there's more to the expedition than meets the eye... Like the previous film, this does exactly what you would expect, with lots of dinosaur set pieces and humans in peril as a result. But it also does, to it's credit, try to do things a little differently. Which is why the plot does take the story to places the franchise has never been before. It is written as the middle of a trilogy, and like many of those that I've read in book form, it does move things along and set things up for a third and final one. It is a thoroughly watchable and likeable blockbuster bit of escapism. Like the first film, it doesn't ever try or promise to be anything more than that. But whilst it is as watchable a bit of escapism as that was, it just doesn't quite have the freshness that that did. Thus it's a four rather than five star release. Jeff Goldblum does reprise his role from the original Jurassic Park. For only a couple of minutes of screentime. Do be aware that although the film does contain dinosaurs, some bits might be too scary for the very young, and they might be a bit too young to follow the plot as well. In which case, there's no point In letting them watch it, is there? Yes, lady who was behind me in the cinema, I am talking about you... The disc has the following language and subtitle options: Languages: English,. English audio description. Subtitles: English. Arabic. The disc begins with several trailers, which can be skipped via the next button on the dvd remote. It contains the usual flyer with code for downloading a copy of the film from a website onto a digital device. And dvd owners actually do quite well with this for once when it comes to extras: There are ten different featurettes. None run more than five mins, and you can't select play all for them so have to watch them one at a time. They all look at different aspects of the production, and despite being short are all pretty good. It helps to have Chris Pratt at the front of most as he is an affable presenter. Same goes for the other extra section, Chris Pratt's Jurassic Journals. These are twelve short films, all no longer than a minute, in which he interviews various production staff and in two of them, actors. All are short and fun watches, and you will learn a lot about various roles on a movie set from this. These can be watched individually, or via a play all option.

Awesome film

Whilst thinking this was a perfect escape during these unprecedented times, my thoughts went to the apocalyptic movie Contagion which is essentially based on a novel virus which springs from bats and becomes a pandemic pretty much mirroring present day events. So then I pondered what were the chances of a real life war between Man V Dinosaurs....is it or could it be that far removed 😁 Well ... I absolutely loved this sequel which although still themed on scientific research v human greed is wonderfully reworked into a new and novel scenario with a touch of Indiana Jones. Undoubtedly this will be watched many many times and personally I felt this was a worthy addition to this much loved franchise. Who doesn't love dinosaurs?

I could see 25 years ago that regenerating dinosaurs was a terribly bad idea. So why have they continued? And why did they even take it a few steps further by meddling with their gene pool!?! It’s all the fault of these greedy billionaire owners. But there is military involvement as well as the armed forces thought it a great idea to turn velociraptors into combat machines... yes this is beyond my comprehension. But then you wonder why those small velociraptors and not the T-rexes? On top of all this, clearly none of these people have taken notice of Murphy’s law because it’s begging for disaster. I could see from the first few minutes that dino excrement would hit the fan big time. But it gets even more disturbing: two children are sent to this park to get some distraction while their parents are handling a divorce ... who would do that?! I think I’m not spoiling too much by disclosing that there is some fiction in this movie. However there are much deeper and more subtle themes in here as well: it is about how mankind’s greed and ambition turns into disaster, as it always does. And it mocks society’s tendency to always demand more for mere entertainment: “people want bigger jaws and bigger teeth”. And its about how authority ignoring the opinions of experts accelerates disaster. These things happen every day! I wish people would wake up. It also cunningly exposes the arrogance of science; not everything that can be achieved should be done!. There are many lessons here. So this movie, albeit gruesome stayed with me for days. It's a classic and a real eye-opener that surpasses the original on many counts.

Good product

La película en una edición especial que no había encontrado hasta ahora. No contiene español.

Bon film

Always enjoyed the series and this one doesn't fail in the action and excitement area. Recommend.

I enjoyed 'Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom' in the cinema - despite all of the half-hearted reviews. It was fast and funny and yet emotional and noble all at the same time. The scenes between the velociraptor 'Blue' and Chris Pratt's character were just od emotional: despite knowing there are no baby dinosaurs. I loved it. I was amazed to find that I enjoyed it just as much on DVD.