17. The Dialogue Is Full Of Exposition & Corny As Hell
Ever since the first scene from the movie was released over two months ago, fans have been nervous that the script wasn't going to be up to scratch. After all, why on Earth would Universal release such a sub-par, cheeseball scene if they had any better ones to give away? While the scene doesn't play quite so horribly in full flow in the final movie, it is indicative of the film's inherent scripting problem: it's unexpectedly earnest and as a result, is certain to be derided by many as laughably corny. There's one other major issue, though, and that's exposition: Pratt and D'Onofrio's characters in particular spend a lot of time lazily reeling off dispassionate plot details and subtext for younger audience members (especially during the first half), and it gets frustrating pretty fast. The old cinematic maxim demands that a director show, not tell, and Trevorrow and his screenwriters could've spent a little less time spelling things out quite so obviously.
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