That’s the dumbest idea in Jurassic Park history

Stupidity has a far too bad image. At least in movies. Without stupid character decisions, for example, 60 percent of all horror films would not exist. That would be a shame.

The Jurassic films have lived off the stupidity of their staff since Part 1, after all you have to be stupid enough to put huge beasts in an amusement park. However, Jurassic World 3: A New Age is dawning with a new idea destructive level of idiocy, which the series has not achieved in almost 30 years. Congratulations!?

This idea is sillier than anything in the Jurassic movies

There are a few elements in Jurassic World 3 that continue to kill brain cells for their stupidity, such as the terribly chopped up dinosaur action scenes. How can you waste dinosaurs like that? When it comes to the script, however, nothing beats them Locust plague at the center of the story. It’s far worse than the usual stupidity we see in movies.

If you do Storyline of A New Age repressed again: The Biosyn concern breeds giant locusts that destroy the fields of the competition. The thinking behind it: Only Biosyn seed is safe, if you don’t buy one, your harvest will be wiped out. Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) investigates, seeks help from her old Jurassic Park sidekick, Alan Grant (Sam Neill), and travels with him to Biosyn headquarters. Ellie wants a DNA sample from the critters as proof of the company’s guilt. There they meet Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum), who wants to bring the truth to light with the help of Biosyn employee Ramsay Cole (Mamoudou Athie).

In case you haven’t noticed, that’s 680 characters that describe half the movie without even mentioning the word dinosaur.

That’s why the locust plague in Jurassic World 3: A New Age is so stupid

The synopsis alone sounds like a science thriller that Jurassic Park creator Michael Crichton might have pitched on a bad day. In the context of A New Age are the Locusts just plain dumb for a number of reasons.

Let’s start with a basic question: Locusts??? Screenwriting team Colin Trevorrow and Emily Carmichael have hundreds of millions of years to draw from like Biosyn scientists, but they choose giant locusts. In the close-up, the critters look disgusting, but firstly the staging hardly uses that and secondly we often see them as a swarm. So they are nothing more than one interchangeable CGI cloud, as any third-rate blockbuster can pull out of a hat. But the Jurassic series has something that makes it unique!

So let’s move on to this unique selling proposition. Jurassic World 3: A New Era would rather spend time with a swarm of insects than with the dozens of dinosaurs roaming around. There are some new dinosaurs in the blockbuster. Due to the division of the story, however, they are dealt with extremely quickly, because the screenplay has to rush to the next boring discussion about voracious insects every time.

The locusts show the basic problem of the Jurassic World finale

Now for the last point: The ending of Jurassic World 2: Fallen Kingdom turned the whole world upside down with the release of the dinosaurs. Jurassic World 3 follows up with fictitious TV reports and… forgets the topic until just before the end credits.

The “new age” of the German title actually plays no role in the film. Instead, the writing team introduces these don’t care locusts because it says something about genetic engineering and responsibility that might as well have been done with dinosaurs – and what Jurassic Park in 1993 has already done. Humans must promote scientific progress responsibly and not leave it to the greed of the markets. Otherwise his creation will outgrow him (and bite him off).

Instead of dealing with it what life would be like with dinosaurs (or what they wreak havoc on alien ecosystems), the script fritters away time with an insect plague. At the end the music soars to a pathetic epilogue about the coexistence of humans and dinosaurs. Parasaurolophus and horse gallop across the prairie side by side. A pretty picture that the film didn’t deserve in a minute. Jurassic World: A New Age ends exactly where it began. At the end of Part 2 The Fallen Kingdom.

There’s good stupidity in movies that’s fun. The locusts don’t count. You are a symptom of fundamental lack of plan of the Jurassic World films.

They’re part of a nagging stupidity that shows up when hundreds of millions of dollars worth of movies crash into the wall in slow motion. That ruins any fun in the bud.