10 Movies Totally Ruined By Fan Service

9. Jurassic World

At a stretch you can probably call Jurassic World the series' best film since the first, but that's saying so, so little.

Designed as a now-fashionable "reboot-sequel", Jurassic World resurrects the franchise with new characters residing within the existing continuity, yet nevertheless can't help constantly hearkening back to Steven Spielberg's classic 1993 original.

For starters, the plot is endlessly indebted to Jurassic Park: a park infested with genetically engineered dinosaurs malfunctions, leaving two kids desperately trying to survive, before the heroes are rescued by an "heroic" T-rex - the very same one from the original movie, in fact.

And of course, endless beloved Jurassic Park imagery is invoked throughout: the feeding sling, the recreation of the original's iconic herd shot, literally dusting off the classic Jurassic Park jeep, and one of the park's engineers, Lowery (Jake Johnson), even wears a damn Jurassic Park T-shirt for the entire movie.

But what's especially annoying about Jurassic World is that it wants to have its cake and eat it too, offering up a smug meta-commentary on how difficult-to-please audiences are, all while returning to the same dried-up well yet again.

After two divisive sequels, Universal clearly banked on a "return to form" by literally reverting back to the first movie with a slight contemporary twist.

But the whiff of cynicism is strong throughout, accentuated by the film's hypocritical critique of greedy businesses, juxtaposed against on-the-nose product placements for fancy new cars and Coca Cola. Yikes.

Sadly the sequel, Fallen Kingdom, didn't fare much better, loosely remaking large portions of The Lost World and doing it badly. Universal probably doesn't much care, though, as both films annihilated the box office, and so a third film is already pencilled in for summer 2021.