Makes Trex Noise & humms theme tune… time for another Legacy Nostalgia Sequel… yep they are defiantly in right now & after the massive Top Gun success, this is the next one on the list. part of the sequel tribology which is well established o lets see if this can deliver.

8pm showings are good for me, ive got a lot done at home & had dinner (& watched GM MODE so happy they are back) & now im ready for the cinema. & the car i followed from the bottom of my road has also just driven the entire length of the seafront to get to the Marina, so im guessing they are seeing this too not that i saw where they parked or if they were in my screening.

There were people from the age of 15 to 70 in the cinema, id say about 50 people too, which considering its been out for nearly a week is still pretty good so thats nice to see. It does span generations so im glad to see that its still pulling people in.

Trailers the black phone (yes) Lightyear (yes) Elvis ( yes) Thos (yes) & the railway children (for some reason i will only see it if nothing else is on that week).

& then the films started… I should probably state that i have never got Dinosaurs, even as a little kid they didnt make me go ohhhhhhhhh. I was never a fan, i get peoples excitement for them its just not me. That being said i know when a film i good & when it isnt & this film is hanging together by a very fine thread of amber, to just about make a movie.

If you want to watch this film for the plot & story dont, really dont. Its flimsy at the best of times. I do get that its a action adventure film & the plot shouldnt be important but there were points where i was like hang on what are we after what are we doing now. It didnt grab me to care about anyone at all.

The highlight of the entire film was when Sam Neill turned around as Allan & they played the original theme music as he smiled. I was like yes we might get something good now & we might get going & be a good film… oh how naive was i.

The next best bit about the film is Jeffs performance. He was being Goldblum being Goldblum if you get me & he was rocking it & bossing it from the hand movements to the buttons on the shirt at one point, to even lean at the end. I laughed a lot at that if im honest, which probably wasnt good.

So the McGuffins were needed but didnt add anything at all to the films. & we knew the two McGuffins were important too, but i genuinely forgot we were after three things at one point so when another turned up i was like oh yea we need that too.

Did they use McLaren for part of that lab?

when they had dinosaurs it was like oh okay yea thats good, but then you forgot about them for a while, while everything else was blandly happening else where that when they did show up you were like ahh okay we gonna keep these around for a bit. The final showdown should have been more impactful too, considering in theory its the end of all of it. Also dont sell a film about dinosaurs but then make it about crops politics & just genetic engineered bugs not dinosaurs.

Who ever played the villain (im not gonna google it because its a waste of 4bits of my memory in my brain) was so poor. He was to generic & to weird & you knew the second you met him what all his motives were & how he was gonna die. & he just walked around with money or sulking & then when it all goes wrong blames others or trys to pas the blame. He was crap. We needed better. Even Spall last time was better than this.

Promising stuff to raptors was odd, but understandable.

There were lots of easter eggs from the previous 5 films. As a causal fan of these films (i dont own them & obsess over them) im sure i missed a few, but i got more than i expected to do.

It just felt lazy & not worth bringing everyone back for. I wish it had more heart & soul & even more dinosaurs than it did.
Lets just say it makes the dinosaur in the third film when hes dreaming say Allan feel correct.

Darn it though legacy films were back on track after top gun. Go see that again for like the 8th time peoples that see this, its a better use of your time & money.