JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH - July - Overperforming Box Office Estimates

[AndyDursin]

Yeah I'd be good with this, some of Edwards' stuff has a personality to it especially the 14 Godzilla

[mkaroly]

This is getting as bad as the Planet of the Apes franchise! Geez!

[Monterey Jack]

You have to wonder if Universal saw what Edwards did with a thrifty $85 million budget on The Creator and decided to choose him based on that, especially coming off of a flop Fast & Furious sequel that cost a ghastly $340 million.

[AndyDursin]

Couldn't hurt. To me it's a no brainer, the '14 Godzilla has some terrific things in it, stylistically and otherwise this could be the best looking one of these since the original movie.

[AndyDursin]

Koepp's never been a favorite but between him and Edwards, I'm beginning to feel this may be a superior popcorn movie.

Granted, the bar is low after the JURASSIC WORLD series and stars usually say stuff like this...except she typically doesn't, and I don't remember anyone saying the JURASSIC WORLD scripts were any good either.

[AndyDursin]

I've long expected them to do a premise like this where someone has to stage a rescue mission on the old island or gets stuck there (which III somewhat did).

Looks reasonable because of Edwards' involvement plus Scarjo and Ali's casting. And at least it's contained back on the island again which is a plus, instead of the "dino world" weirdness pushed by the last couple of movies.

[Monterey Jack]

Two months out from release, and still no composer announcement, which is odd. I mean, I'm not expecting much whoever they pick, but still.

[AndyDursin]

Not a huge Desplat fan here but anything is better than Giacchino (except maybe Lorne Balfe) and this reunites him with Edwards after GODZILLA which wasn't a terrible score.

This new trailer actually looks quite good. I mean, the running around and plot are familiar obviously, but I trust Edwards to deliver on set-pieces and this looks like it has a good array of them. The natural looking outdoor cinematography another plus...looks the most like the original JP and that's a good thing for me.

[AndyDursin]

Some claiming the budget is under $200 million which is entirely why Edwards was a key director for them to target. He gets it done for less.

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[Monterey Jack]

6/10



There's a key moment early on in this latest chapter of this fossilized franchise that epitomizes why there hasn't been an authentically artful entry since Steven Spielberg's 1993 original, when a dying brachiosaur has brought NYC traffic to a standstill, and one of our key characters sits in his car fuming that he's gonna be late for an appointment. It typifies the crass tone of Gareth Edwards' latest chapter, which delivers the requisite running & screaming amusement ride jolts while almost never taking a moment for the oooing and ahhing that Spielberg brought to his dignified dinos. Oh, the movie is far less obnoxiously cluttered than the last two World films, and most of the characters are at least vaguely likable, but it's never terribly involving. ScarJo brings her usual scratchy-voiced aplomb to the role (and, as always, there are few things more alluring than a take-charge heroine in a sci-fi/action pic in a tight, sweaty tank top ), and Mahershala Ali coasts by on his charisma, but the movie is nothing more than your usual "We're stranded on an island teeming with mutated monsters, and we have to get from Point A to point B" travelogue. A few setpieces hit (like a nifty, protracted homage to the barrel chase from Jaws in the opening stretch and a reasonably taut whitewater rapids pursuit with a hungry T-Rex), but the film's giant mutant dino at the climax (who looks like the Rancor designed by Salvador Dali) is goofy and unthreatening. The movie is never as obnoxious as the last two JW movies at their worst (or even JP III), and Edwards gets good production values on the screen (shooting on Kodak film, no less), but I left thoroughly unmoved, despite John Williams' theme music soaring majestically as the film came to a dissatisfying close (and what happened to that adorable baby Triceratops that was injected for kiddie appeal? It totally vanishes after a certain point!). It's time to rebury these rotting bones and let this franchise die already.

[AndyDursin]

7.5/10

Thoroughly enjoyed it. Great set pieces. Loved the cinematography. Doesnt reinvent any wheel and anyone bored with the series isnt going to like it, but Edwards delivers the best action sequences here since the original and the sense of scale with the creatures (who also look great) was palpable.

Koepp's script is also written on a more mature level than any of the previous "World" entries and while it couldve been tightened up, for a straightforward dinosaur survival action movie this delivers the goods -- and really this is what I want out of this kind of thing. No preachy ecomessages. Just a straight ahead, survivalist action movie on a mysterious island teeming with creatures. Takes you back not only to the 1st JP but King Kong etc. too. For that reason I probably enjoyed this on balance more than any of these films since the original, and I didnt need any heartstring tugging material bc all of the last few movies were drenched with it. I just wanted to be entertained and the stuff with the girls little dino was just enough.

Also a nice job by Desplat. Like the script, the music was vastly elevated from the pedestrian Giacchino scores of the previous pictures.

* MJ that dinosaur you lost track of was in the boat with the girl at the end. Also popped up in the climax too running around at one point.

[Paul MacLean]

I'm roughly in-between with a 7.

No, there's nothing new here, but it's pulled-off with the requisite suspense and thrills. I didn't care for Desplat's score, but at least it wasn't power chords and "braaaams". The cast is very good, character development is satisfactory. While I found it slow at times, I liked it better than any Jurassic entry since the 1993 original.

I have some misgivings, but they aren't so much directed against the film itself as the mindset behind this film -- i.e. the risk-averse "strategy" of today's Hollywood, which mines "reliable" formulae rather than offering us something new.

On the other hand, I respect Gareth Edwards for shooting the film on Kodak celluloid, which gave it an appealingly nostalgic look.

[AndyDursin]

It's time to rebury these rotting bones and let this franchise die already.

Looking at both the domestic and international receipts, it's overperforming all of the estimates and in some cases by a big margin so that's not going to happen.

Remember too, this is a franchise forever courting kids, because that's the big part of the appeal of dinosaurs in general. So they're not always making it for you or me, but my 11 year old. In a few years there'll be another batch of them old enough, willing and ready to take in one of these. Whether it's of interest to our aging demographic is, frankly, besides the point. Parents with kids is nearly half the audience breakdown on Jurassic.

[AndyDursin]

Massive opener both here and abroad.

Budget was $180 mil so they are in good shape indeed.

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SUNDAY VERY EARLY AM: Name a franchise that has swapped out its characters and cast, and yet continues to be a box office success. Jurassic World Rebirth is that unicorn, upholding the meaty grosses this Universal–Amblin dinosaur franchise has a long history with. The Gareth Edwards directed, Scarlett Johansson starring movie posted its biggest day since opening Wednesday with a $35.6M Saturday, +35% from Friday, with a revised 3-day that’s close to $90M and 5-day that’s at $145.3M. Some even see the movie higher with $147M over its Wednesday through Sunday run.

The net $180M production, which was shot in Thailand, Malta and at Sky Studios United Kingdom received $150M in media value from promo partners that included Jeep, Dr. Pepper (11 custom Jurassic-themed cans), Quaker, M&Ms (Jurassic mega-packs), 7-11 (which transformed three stores into Jurassic World Rebirth experiences featuring décor, photo ops and special merchandise) and Johansson’s skincare brand, The Outset.

[Monterey Jack]

Even though I wasn't very enamored with this, I respect that Universal made this a complete standalone movie, which was very smart. It wasn't sowing seeds for another convoluted "trilogy", it was just a one-off adventure you could sit through with very little knowledge of what came before, and that's why it's playing to family audiences w/kids so well. That's going to help it at the box office, as compared to the homework-heavy slogs of recent MCU bombs like Capt. America 4 and Thunderbolts*, which only played for the hardcore geeks for a single weekend apiece before cratering.

Plus, the lack of any streaming shows connected to the JP films is very smart, as it doesn't "dilute" the brand. It's just a new movie every three or four years.