Jurassic World: 10 Things That Completely Ruined Fallen Kingdom
2. Trying To Send A 'Serious Message'
By far the worst thing about Masie's inclusion though, is that it's part of the film's greater attempt to send a serious message on nature and the animal kingdom. The whole movie is built around the idea of animal preservation and saving the dinosaurs from extinction, rather than continuing to cage them up and sell them on for profit.
It's all very on the nose, but it isn't an inherently bad message. It's just the way it's communicated which sucks all the fun out of the wackiness the filmmakers indulge in otherwise.
The extinction event at Jurassic World, for instance is outstanding, and having to live through the end of these creatures firsthand is genuinely tragic, but it comes just after Chris Pratt does his best PG rendition of the quaaludes overdose form The Wolf of Wall Street and the heroes have jumped a truck off a pier into an escaping helicopter.
Consequently, the 'insightful' moments only feel even more half-baked and laughable, treated with a self-seriousness the rest of the movie lacks.