Spoiler Alert – This post will talk about Jurassic World Rebirth and it WILL contain spoilers. If you haven’t yet watched this dinosaur-filled movie, you might wish to skip this post.
I LOVE dinosaurs and I’ve enjoyed all of the Jurassic Park/World movies.
Yes, even the second one. (grins)
Jurassic World Rebirth is my least favorite.
It has moments of wonder in it. I loved the saved family, especially the boyfriend and his character arc. I thought the scene with the Titanosaurus was absolutely beautiful.
My big disappointment was with Distortus rex.
Every Jurassic movie has a new ‘terrifying’ dinosaur. This dinosaur is usually bigger and scarier and more deadly than any we’ve seen thus far.
And this is set up to be true in Jurassic World Rebirth.
We first ‘encounter’ Distortus rex in the first scene. We don’t see her but we know she’s huge and deadly.
And I was waiting excitedly the entire movie to finally see her.
When we did see her, toward the end of the movie, she was a let down.
She definitely didn’t live up to the hype.
She was hard to look at. She was so ugly. She had numerous arms but we didn’t really see how that was much of an advantage.
Because her scenes were few. And the fight was over quickly.
We weren’t shown how she was a better predator than the T-Rex, one of our favorites.
She had no endearing aspects or traits, nothing to give us a connection to her.
And I’m not interested in seeing Distortus rex ever again.
If she is the future of Jurassic dinosaurs, I’ll give that beloved franchise a pass.
This is a reminder for myself and writing buddies.
If we build hype, we have to deliver on that hype.
If we tell readers, for example, our hero will do ANYTHING to protect his love interest, we have to show him doing some serious sh*t to safeguard that being.
If we hint that sh*t will hit the fan if anyone found out about their relationship, someone has to find out and sh*t has to hit the fan. Hard.
Live up to the hype.
