There’s a lot of running around secret lair sets that seem to have been recently vacated by Austin Powers’s Dr EvilĪlso coexisting are the stars of the original Park trilogy (Sam Neill’s Dr Alan Grant holding a candle for Laura Dern’s conveniently single Dr Ellie Sattler) and the new World instalments (nuclear couple Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Pratt serving as surrogate clone parents), all reunited in variety-show fashion. In this strange new world, where monsters have been sprung from their island cages and spread across the globe, mankind and dinosaurs must coexist, an anomalous circumstance previously explored in such varied films as the famously ahistorical One Million Years BC and the apocalyptically stupid A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell. Jurassic World Dominion picks up four years after the events of JA Bayona’s visually inventive Fallen Kingdom(co-written by Trevorrow), which ended with Jeff Goldblum’s Dr Ian Malcolm heralding the beginning of “a new era” – a neo-Jurassic age. Yet perhaps chastened by his bruising experiences on Star Wars, he has gone for the Abrams option following a formula in which surprises are few, plodding is the order of the day and safety is absolutely guaranteed. Now, Trevorrow, who graduated from the Sundance prize-winning indie fantasy Safety Not Guaranteed to directing the behemoth Jurassic Worldin 2015, gets another shot at closing out a blockbuster trilogy in adventurous fashion. Ever since, fans of the furiously divisive penultimate instalment, The Last Jedi, have argued that The Rise of Skywalker’s original co-writer/director, Colin Trevorrow, would have delivered a far more rewardingly risk-taking finale had he not left because of “creative differences”. I n 2019, JJ Abrams’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker served up a string of emptily familiar set pieces as it brought the curtain down on Episode IX – the final instalment of a sequel trilogy.

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