You can criticise the previous two Jurassic Park movies for a lot of things, but one thing they didn't have was product placement this excessive and laughable. Jurassic World is absolutely packed with intrusive and distracting advertisements, and here's just a few of them. Early on, Claire mentions Verizon Wireless sponsoring the Indominus Rex (and the subsequent mockery of it doesn't make it OK), she drinks a cup of Starbucks coffee, Owen drinks a glass bottle of Coca Cola for no reason at all, director Colin Trevorrow shoots Claire driving around in her Mercedes car like it's an actual Mercedes commercial, a glance at a car battery lingers on the Kawasaki logo, Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville restaurant chain is featured in the park, Triumph motorcycles get a pretty decent look in, and there's even some Samsung money-hatting in the control room. That's probably just some of them, and while not quite as obnoxious as in, say, a Michael Bay movie, it's still pretty damn frustrating. Considering that the film is largely a critique of capitalism run rampant, it's pretty infuriating that there's so much paid placement in it.
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