A Critique Of Jurassic World Dominion - A Crime Against Humanity 

"Up to 32 deaths per year" really caught me off guard. hippos kill 300 per year and you're telling me dinosaurs killed 1/10 of that?!

I like how the clone lived isolated with two american parents for years and somehow has a thicker english accent

That clip of Homelander watching on with complete disdain as Chris Pratt on a horse chases down a dinosaur with a rope was absolutely perfect🤣

Genuinely, one of the most depressing finales to a franchise ever. Not depressing like Logan, where the narrative earned its gut-punching moments, but depressing in the sense that this was meant to be a big grand finale, yet it felt like every single opportunity was wasted in favour of pointless and misguided adventure that lead no where by the end. Also great video btw

The most disappointing part was that the girl was told that her genetics could help cure MILLIONS of their diseases around the world, and she was just like, "Nope, cya!" Not even a pause. Not even a consideration if he was telling the truth. Not even a consideration of why she was so wanted.

Fun fact: Scooter guy was a real life dude who won a contest in 2020 that guaranteed they would get eaten by a dino

I actually liked that they made the Therizinosaurus, the one you called deer slapper, aggressive. Media likes to portray herbivores as docile and not dangerous when that's far from the truth. Herbivores can be just as aggressive and dangerous as carnivores. In fact, many of the most dangerous animals on the planet are large herbivores. In addition, the Therizinosaurus was confirmed to be blind so it being aggressive is logical. Since it can't see or differentiate potential threats, it just attacks anything that gets near it. Essentially it's in, "I don't care what you are, I'm not taking any chances." mode.

Lost World is my guilty pleasure. Love it.

The Lost World gets way too much hate imo. The greedy new management aspect fits as a contrast to the story in the first one. Sure, the gymnastic kick is a bit silly, and bringing a t-rex to the city is questionable. But unlike the rest of the franchise, it treats the original characters with respect, the dinosaurs are still intimidating, and it's (at least for me) as entertaining as the first one.

It's a sad day when a shavng cream can getting buried in the mud ellicits more of an emotional response than any characters in this film.

Just to note: The dinosaurs not shaking the ground and making loud noises when they appeared is frankly more realistic. At that size you can't afford your prey knowing you're right behind it before it even sees you. In real life, Tyrannosaurus rex and other large predators probably had fatty padding on their feet to deaden their footsteps. It is inconsistent with the actual franchise though, and they never cared for paleontological accuracy to begin with lol.

My biggest criticism is that everything in the Jurassic World Dominion was set up just so the legacy characters and the new characters could have a big meet up, in one of the most unlikely, convoluted ways imaginable. The most unbelievable part of it for me, is why Ellie & Alan(both old by this point) would want to sneak into a secure facility on the otherside of the world and obtain evidence, as if they're agents of espionage and not middle-aged paleo-scientists from rural America. I get that they might have legitimate concerns for the state of the world, but does anyone truly believe that Ellie Sattler & Alan Grant would resort to becoming spies as well as intentionally put themselves in grave danger??? They were both negatively-affected mentally(for several years, mind you) by their experience on Isla Nublar, why would Ellie & Alan decide to become thrillseeking whistleblowers all of a sudden? It felt ridiculously out of character and like something written for different characters from some other film. The whole "swarm of giant locusts" thing really irked me too because that is not at all something that has ever been seen in or associated with Jurassic Park. I was actually confused when I saw the farm scene because I honestly thought some M. Night Shaymalan film got switched on by mistake. Jurassic World Dominion was frankly, a weird & disappointing conclusion to the series.

Seeing as humans seem to be very underdeveloped in the weaponry department, the plan to weaponize dinosaurs suddenly makes much more sense.

I don't know which is most forgetable about the movie; the so-called villain or the plot.

Truly one of the dinosaur movies of all time.

Its ironic that at one point Jurassic park uses some of the most up to date knowledge on prehistoric life at the time and now it peddles the very myths it once sought to disprove

Fun fact- the Evil Rich Guy from this movie, and the guy who gives Nedry the shaving cream can, are the SAME GUY. Lou Dodgson. Really puts a new perspective on the line: "Dodgson, Dodgson! We've got Dodgson here! .....see, nobody cares."

My favorite part was when star lord said “it’s Jurassin time” and proceeded to jurass on everyone

14:30 Small Error. That dude won a contest to get to be in the movie and killed by a dino. Hes also the only civilian killed in Fk or Dominion. Colin Trevorrow made the brain dead decision that only "bad guys" where allowed to die in these films now.

"But think of the merch we can sell!" is, I believe, the only reason that any of the sequels exist. And they got crummier and crummier. The clone girl releasing them was so infuriating!

The pack of dimetrodons in the amber mine made me so mad because things with a sail on their back like theirs would not be living in caves and mine shafts. They did the dimetrodon so dirty.

I will never forgive the writers for what they did to Alan Grant. Grant was always my favorite character of the Jurassic Park films and whatever they turned him into for JW Dominion was not Alan Grant.

I thought the worst scene in the Jurassic franchise was when Starlord miraculously wakes up from a tranquilizer just in time to get out of the way of lava. And then avoids a stampede, falling volcanic rock and lava, jumps 100s of feet of a cliff. Avoids the dinosaurs rocks and lava and then rescues Claire. And somehow this entire film is worse.

I will say, in defense of Jurassic world (pretty much the only defense I have for it), no one knew the indominus rex could camouflage itself. Doesn't explain why they didn't have a tracking station IN the enclosure control room though; no defense there...

The angsty, i-got-it-all-figured-out, irritating teenager trope should be abolished.

The biggest problem with this movie is there's no conflict between the old and new cast. One want them dead the other want to keep them alive why would they get along?

Hey a correction, the guy on the scooter @14:23 was a guy that won a fan competition to be in the film. Unfortunately covid travel restrictions prevented him from coming to the actual set so they just had him do something really generic on film, then green-screened him in. If covid restrictions were not in place he would have been flown out and filmed on set with better equipment. They didn't want to dishonor the agreement by excluding him so they did the best they could under the circumstances. While the movie was total garbage this one scene I think has a good excuse for being how it is.

21:51 Funniest part is that the “rich asshole” villain that you said is less memorable than a can of whipped cream is actually a red shirt guy on the left that Nedry talked to. To top that, that scene was about how Nedry told everyone the guy’s name and then said something like “Dodgson, Dodgson, we've got Dodgson here! See? Nobody cares.”

That clip of Kermit the frog on the typewriter was hilarious. When you spoke of how bad the writing was I got a real kick out of that.

"Show dont tell" is a great comment. I, myself, failed at that at the age of 8 when I saw Return of the Jedi. As a kid, it never occurred to me that fatherly love could save the hero. To me a villain is a villain is a villain. BUT....i mulled that over for DECADES, and as i got OLDER (father age), I came to appreciate that ROTJ SHOWed, not TOLD, me the motive. Makes it stand the test of time as a well-told story.

18:28 Book John Hammond definitely made Jurassic Park for the money with little regard for the safety of workers and guests. That’s why Michael Crichton gave him such a grizzly death. My head cannon is that Steven Spielberg and the film crew thought in casting Richard Attenborough the character would work best as a kind, wise, grandfather figure.

The original Jurassic Park was my favourite childhood movie. This video essay is by far the best account of why the franchise is failing and you delivered with precision humour. Great work!

I like how the clumsy tech guy who disappeared halfway through Jurassic World 2: Jurassic Worldier is now this super cool and on the ball guy now

The critical drinker sent me here and I’m so glad he did. Great video. Hilarious. Liked and subscribed.

Jurassic Park (1993) will always be the best of the franchise

“A complete confirmation that logic will not be part of this story.” Why does this sound like every time I get into a relationship

I love how Wu was turned from a moustache twirling villain into an emo for no reason xD

One could argue the T-Rex was unimaginably stealthy at the end of the first one. The books were always better. I wish they would adapt the first novel as a 10 - 20 part miniseries. Shit I wouldn’t even complain if they make Malcolm a black guy (or Ellie a black girl for the modern film fans) if they were, in all other ways true to the source material, violence and all.

I guarantee most of the kids including me was skipping the entire lunch moral discussion scene in the first film because it is boring, but now i realized just how lovely crafted that scene in explaining the entire plot of a movie. Now I like replaying that scene because it is not only explains the plot, but also explains and setting the characters and the dialogue is also good.

It’s Dino time!! You should talk about how hard the “fast and the furious “ franchise is being milked

Thank you for the great review. Although I now genuinely feel stupider as a human being for knowing the plot of this movie.

I love how this one video summed up how we think of the enemy in this movie, it cuts to the scene where nedry and Dodson are collaborating at that outdoor restaurant and nedry sarcastically goes "Dodson! Dodson! we have Dodson here!... See nobody cares. Nice hat."

We called him Star Lord the whole time too when we were watching these. That’s how unmemorable his character is!! instant sub. You’re funny.

I'd say this was mostly spot on, but people give The Lost World too much shit a lot of the time. JP3's worst crime was only just that it had no reason to exist. I'll Give the first Jurassic World Credit for at least trying a "what if" if the Park had actually opened, and exploring Hybrid Dinos, which was previously only ever done in the toylines. But Fallen Kingdom and Dominion, just no excuses, they are insufferably and insultingly bad. Trying to Reunite Ellie and Grant, only it's too little too late, as Grant's arc in the first film was all about getting on board with having kids with Ellie, but that ship sailed as they're both far too old.

I wish we could just skip to the part where we are all looking back at this era of entertainment and think, "How the fuck did it ever get that bad?...."

The owner of the business I work for actually had her dad pass in that kind of plane crash. He was a business man and a pilot who often flew his clients. He hit a storm and went down. They couldn't find them for a long time and when they did, it was in about 30-60ft of water. They were all still in their seats but him and the the other front seat passenger were totally decapitated from the impact in the ocean. And they hit ICE and hot out unscathed. Absolutely unbelievable

Your critical analysis of this movie is SPOT ON ! Thanks for softening the blow, of realizing that this movie was 2hrs and 27min of my life that I will never get back.

The Drinker ordered me here. Turns out to be the best assignment I've ever received. Bloody good one, mate.

This makes me wish there was an accurate depiction of the Carnosaur novel. The military was actually useful at the end 😆

I guess the Jurassic Park "franchise" shows why vanilla works. People dont think "boy gotta watch that new Jurassic Park movie!" people think more like "okay i want to go out with my date/friends/family/kids/wife tonight, what could be the smallest denominator? Oh i know, lets watch the inoffensive meaningless dino movie." I dont mind it that much, at least its not anouther race/genderswapped mess, i just hope good movies are still getting made and i appreciate every new good movie like Joker or The whale very recently. (Also it gives good RU-vid content)

O my god my day just got way better

Critical Drinker recommended this. Great analysis of the films. Consider me a fan.

The armored Mercedes rolling right in to scene next to Chris Pratt had the theatre rolling

"F@#k the guy who set up the lights in this movie" . . This entire video is a master class on brain dead cinema, You have my respect Jedi Brooks, say it like it is.

Everyone involved with that scene is going to Hell. They ordered a few pizzas, the Domino's Delivery Driver is going to Hell :3

I think Chris Pratts one condition for being in the JW movies was "I'll do it but my character is what I think of myself, a manly badass with no flaws" Owen Grady is the definition of "Plot Armor"

Man you remind me of Ellie Sattler examining the giant pile of feces of that Triceratops in the first Jurassic Park. Great video breaking down what's wrong with the movie. Great work, keep it up.

4:09 "DODGSON! WE GOT DODGSON HERE!!" "See, nobody cares."

Ironically, the point of the first one was to explore humanity's greed. John Hammond in the book is a ruthless, manipulative businessman who, by the end, is literally planning how to build the park again while the workers around him are clearing the detritus and bodies. It's only in the film where he's the kndly grandpa figure, which hugely detracts from the impact his character has in the book - a selfish, corporate sociopath obsessed with money at all costs.

As an ecologist, the Jurassic World movies had me facepalming. It was a 180° whiplash from the first Jurassic Park movie's theme of "Yup, these dinosaurs are dangerous, and also they're a genetic mashup so it's not like they're the real deal! (not to mention the ecosystems of millions of years in the past, with their plants and fungi down to the symbiotic gut bacteria of the dinosaurs, no longer exist.) But suddenly it's "But these poor dinosaurs are _alive!_ So we have to protect them and treat them as threatened species" when in reality they're invasive megafauna that will utterly destroy global ecosystems (which are already under strain from 8 billion humans). Forget dinosaurs killing humans, who cares. The day the hippos go extinct due to T-Rex eating them will be catastrophic not just for African river systems but also for the fertility of the savannah around those river and all animals dependant on that. Hippos are a key species. Dinos who went extinct hundreds of millions of years ago in a totally different era are not.

Lost world is underrated

The main villain of this movie (Lewis Dodgeson (I think it’s dodgeson?)) is supposed to be the same guy who met up with Denis Nedry at the cafe in the first movie to bribe him into stealing the embryos from Hammond. Not sure if any of you already knew this, but if you didn’t, the more you know.

You and Drinker need to co-produce a review sometime man. Great stuff!

Your channel was a fantastic recommendation. May be youtube's first for me!

Good job with this video! As someone who has much disdain for Dominion (and the trilogy as a whole), I had quite the laugh watching you point out many of its ridiculous, brain-melting flaws. Keep up the great work! P.S: I too love the dinner scene from JP. Malcolm and Hammond's debate is so intriguing, and many of the lines are so great yet so painfully ironic when remembering that this trilogy exists. Shame that the franchise ended up the way it did, but at least we still have that timeless classic to look back on.

1. They were nasutoceratops and sinoceratops in the beginning. 2. I give the film some credit due to the fact that it was filmed entirely during the height of all the Covid19 restrictions so that must have been extremely difficult to abide by all the strict and inconvenient rules( which i personally think were excessive and unnecessary) and 3. The extended version made the film make MUCH more sense and also the books shed a lot of light on who Biosyn really is. They were the ones who convinced Nedry to sabotage the OG park. Dodgeson was the leading man in that regard. For those who didnt know already.

Dude what an amazing video and script, would’ve expected you to have 1m+ subs. Keep it up bro

"Its just dino time" that got me dying

had to pause the vid mid way at 14:20 just to write this... your reviews are hillarious and i hope you never stop making them. Just watch out hollywood doesn't stop making shitty movies becouse your reviews about them are golden

To add, last time I checked, Locusts dont eat people, so as long as you dont mind walking through a swarm of giant, buzzing, scary bugs, you'll be perfectly safe. Every character could have just closed their eyes, peeking out occasionally, and walked right through them.

i loveeee videos like this! No punches pulled, subscribed

That Kermit the frog clip 😂😂😂😂 so good. Nice job dude. Please keep it going.

My biggest gripe with this franchise is the Tyrannosaurus rex always is the underdog, but in real life it was largest/most powerful land predator to ever exist. A T. rex fighting a Giga or Spino in real life wouldn’t even be fair for those dinosaurs since both weren’t built to fight tanks. Also the franchise past The Lost World high key sucks. The Lost World was at least fun, and that gymnastics scene wasn’t the entire film like the rest of the films turned out.

Excellent critique, one of the best I've seen for this film. Can tell you love and respect the original Jurassic Park as much as I do. The screenwriters' lack of skill re: communicating themes and character is a MASSIVE issue with the three Jurassic World films, especially the last two, and you demonstrate this really well. And I love that you call them out - writers, directors, producers, the whole crew - for the disdain they show to the original premise and franchise as a whole! Only thing I would maybe disagree with is your take on John Hammond - I love his character too, but I feel he was definitely more selfish, profits-driven and calculating than you acknowledge; it just wasn't ALL he was, he had a sense of wonder and cared about people as well (the version of his character in the novel - not so much, haha). Dominion makes a fair point that Hammond and Lockwood COULD have used the genetic discoveries for more things beneficial to humanity than a dinosaur theme park...I'm just glad they didn't, 'cos I'm a big Jurassic Park fan. :D

The Drinker sent me. Love your work, looking forward to seeing more.

Idk if the movie explains it but how tf did releasing like 20 dinosaurs into one small forest result them suddenly populating the entire planet, being abundant everywhere and being made up of species that were not only, not released by maisie but werent even part of ingens stock. How tf does that happen, seriously ?

To be fair, the T-Rex in the first movie also had Stealth 100.

Great video. I forgot I even watched this last year. I clearly remember watching the original JP in theaters and being so amazed. This movie still made 1 billion at the BO. So, not just the writers fault.

So many perfect clips mixed in here i don't know where to start. Well played. Subscribbled

One of the driving points of the original story (both the novel and film) was the fact that certain species simply cannot coexist and that a world where dinosaurs & humans meet will ALWAYS end poorly because we will NEVER have control over these incredibly powerful forces of nature. We could stay away from them and hope they stay where they are, kill them, or they kill us. There was never meant to be a door #4 where they integrate into the wild kingdom and we just get used to it. There is no even quasi-realistic scenario where that could EVER happen in our world, which this franchise does take place in despite being fiction. It's fundamentally impossible, even if we suspend disbelief at the implausibility behind the dinosaurs' creation. And I guarantee you that at least some of the people working on this movie knew that full well. Suspension of disbelief is a necessary thing for stories like this going in, but it's NOT a blank check and never has been. There must always limitations when you make the decision to craft any mythos with at least some defined boundaries reflecting a level of reality. And Jurassic Park was ALWAYS intended as a semi-realistic scenario of "What if this actually happened, how would we react?" It was NOT a feel-good fantasy where anything goes with these animals and logic only matters when the plot decides it does. That whole approach on its face betrays what made Jurassic Park so compelling and yet frightening at its core. The only way Dominion could have potentially justified its existence was by demonstrating the consequences of dinos spreading into the world after decades of humanity's greed & arrogance leading them to repeatedly make the same mistakes. And then (GASP), we actually have to COMMIT to saving humanity by doing whatever it takes to make them extinct again. Not just locusts, not just carnivores, ALL of them. For as thoroughly poorly written as Fallen Kingdom was, at the very least, it served to set this up. Dominion's trailers set up audiences to perceive this as the consequences of every prior film coming to pass: "Humans and dinosaurs can't coexist. We created an ecological disaster. We're racing toward the extinction of our species. We not only lack dominion over nature. We're subordinate to it. We made a terrible mistake." The tone, dialogue, and visuals in the marketing all set audiences up to expect that the relationship between humans & genetically engineered beasts was coming to an end one way or another and only ONE SIDE would survive. That was no accident, and the marketers knew exactly what they were doing. Setting, manipulating, and selling expectations is their job. It was marketed as "the epic conclusion to the Jurassic era", a story about consequences with every character responsible for the current state of the world being forced to face what they've done as countless innocents are suffering for it. Dominion still wouldn't have been a worthy sequel even with this direction in my opinion, but this angle could've given it more impact. It could have given the film something to say that felt relevant to the original. But no. As with every entry since the 1993 classic, the studio wanted to have their cake and eat it too. They proved themselves to be exactly the kind of corporate suits Malcolm has criticized, more concerned with selling something than considering the ramifications of what they've made. It valued the spectacle of "Wow, dinosaurs, big action, toys, etc." (the mindset that contributed to Jurassic Park ending up the way it did in the first place) over what the story was about, denying a substantiative conclusion to this irreconcilable imbalance of nature by ending on a note of "This is just normal now, so we'll live with it!" and playing the triumphant/nostalgic music. This ending was anything but a triumph, nor was it in any way an ending to the franchise that would make any logical in-universe sense or thematically complement where it started. It was the cinematic equivalent of the creators & studios being so unwilling to make a commitment either way that they just put the Earth in the worst position it could be in and left it there. Even if humanity tried to coexist with these animals for a while, it will NEVER last. And we know this for a fact because literally everything in the series told us so. "Life finds a way." was NEVER intended to mean "We can't stop this now, so let's give up and make peace with it." What Ian meant, for those who paid attention, was "Nature will never submit to your desires." This was further solidified by Ellie's line of "You will NEVER have control! THAT'S the illusion!" We can argue "Well, that's the point, humanity never learns." But any writer worth their salt knows that, at a certain point, that's just a cop-out to justify milking a franchise while excusing increasingly lazy writing. It's a shield the creators hide behind to negate criticism. The reality is that the studio executives behind these movies didn't do what they've done to send a message about humanity being its own downfall. It wasn't about sending a message that we will never learn. It was a means to sell a product, pure and simple. And instead of admitting that, we keep giving money to it because escapism matters more to us than quality control. Remember when those weren't mutually exclusive, when more creators made the effort to find a balance between executing both to a well done result? Obviously, dumb, fun escapism has always existed but that's NOT what Jurassic Park was in the beginning. Unfortunately, our standards for storytelling have sunk so low that we not only praise this cash-grab IP assassination. There are fans who will relentlessly defend it, to the point of insisting that the originals were just as flawed. And what's more pitiable is, a number of these fans genuinely believe what they're saying. Or, part of them probably knows deep down that Jurassic Park peaked a long time ago but they'll die on the hill of defending this anyway because admitting what shlock the series turned into would make them feel bad. This is often the true motive behind saying "It's all subjective." It's another shield to hide behind that countless people will parrot ad nauseum because they're afraid to feel any negativity toward something they enjoy (as if that inherently equates to it being "ruined" for them, which I think is a childish mentality). It's like a generation of Joy duplicates from Inside Out, dopamine addicts who only care about feeling good. These individuals run toward pleasure and away from negativity, even when feeling negativity is necessary sometimes to be healthy or improve. They see less or no value in the art of storytelling, so long as they can turn their brains off for two-three hours. THIS is becoming the primary audience for entertainment, the audience every Jurassic Park sequel probably since The Lost World was made for. The studios cater to them for one main reason: Their money is easier to get. And that's sad.

18:49 Funnily enough her name was never Charlotte in FK. It was Maisie Lockwood and she passed away sometime around 2002. So there is literally no reason for her to still be around in 2009. I despised how they tried to make her seem like some important character. Even on my first viewing of the movie , I was like " Yeah I don't like this character at all".

The clip of the girl swinging at Clair only to continuously swing at air just broke me down😂😂

Wow, you nailed that part at the end,” when was the last time you felt afraid for a character since the first movie”

They had guns and they choose to flee? 😂

Critical drinker sent me but I’m definitely here to stay. That was a hilarious and very insightful review of a movie I refuse to watch. Liked and subbed

The hand thing they do to tame dinosaurs will never not be hilarious to me, it’s just sooooo stupid. It went from an already stupid thing that Chris Pratt did specifically with his highly trained raptors, to literally just a Jedi mind trick that any schmuck can do to any animal 😂😂😂

When he lassoed the dinosaur i almost walked out of the theater... until i remembered we were still only like 1 minute in

And yet, they never got the Dilophosaurus right, which was about 20 feet long and big 😂. I still lmao every time I see that poor dino in these movies.

What pisses me off about the scene with the armed guys against the raptors is thst in the previous movie a single 9mm bulletnearly killed blue, those raptors wouldve been toast

Kermit typing furiously 🤣…. Good videos man keep it up. This film though,….no words really.

And there are still people who will call these movies "masterpieces".

I like how you kept referring to the Chris Pratt character as "Star Lord". Because truthfully I don't even remember what his character's name in this film series was. 😂 To be honest, that's what I call Chris Pratt in ANY movie I see him in. I like him a lot and think he's a great actor, but so far the ONLY film he's in that has made any sort of lasting impression on me to where I actually remember and bond with the characters has been his _Guardians of the Galaxy_ franchise. 😕

I tried watching this movie. I had to stop 20 minutes in, when they lure the diplodocus(?) with a flare because the clone girl told them how to do it, and the dinosaur then looks back at her like it is thanking her. Thats when i realised i couldn't bear such stupidity for two hours and a half so i just stopped watching this pile of dino droppings. Edit : i'm now at the end of the video and i'm so glad i didn't watch this movie until the end. Thank you for having suffered through this.

Just found your channel. How have you not got more subscribers? Brilliant takes

The problem - Hollywood thinks we want bigger and bigger. No. We want small, intimate and horrific. We want- a group of 20 people camping, who are terrorised by a group of velociraptors who have destroyed the tyres on their cars, and the rescuers can't get through due to a mudslide, for 24 hours.

Its crazy how The Super Mario Bros movie had realistic dinosaurs done just barely before Jurassic Park by like a month... makes me think they ripped it off 🤔

they should just do a dinosaur drama where the legacy actors play as dinosaurs themselves... I guess if some studio were to buy the rights to turn LKD Jenning's Mark of the Conifer into an animated series that be something

I liked how to big bird guy was violent (which is about the only thing i liked). Just because somethings a herbivore doesnt mean its a harmless little creature. Though its stupid it just shows up for no reason at the end.

Here because drinker told me to be here. But great video fr keep up the great work you earned a sub today

11:08 they need to have this chick play syndromes assistant in The Incredibles live action