In the anti-dino camp is, surprisingly, Jeff Goldblum, who pops in to lecture a congressional committee - and, by extension, us - on how technological advancement precedes our capacity to use it responsibly. Howard’s Claire even runs a foundation committed to saving the reconstituted dinos - now threatened with their very own extinction by a volcano - from those who think reconstituting them in the first place was a mistake on par with splitting the atom. It’s easy to spot the good guys (Chris Pratt with muscles, Bryce Dallas Howard in slightly more sensible shoes, a hot nerdy young woman, a whiny-hysteric nerdy young guy, and an otherworldly little girl) because they’re Friends of the Animal Kingdom. The plot is a little more convoluted, with numerous human villains and less family-unfriendly blood - the exception being a transfusion performed on Blue, the semi-domesticated velociraptor, which is designed to warm your heart. Is Fallen Kingdom a good ride? It’s okay.

That’ll teach them, at least until the sixth Jurassic movie. The fun - such as it is - comes from watching dinosaurs chomp down on overweening bad guys who have insufficient reverence for Nature.

As it happens, weaponizing the dinos is exactly what the filmmakers do. There’s a lot of tsk-tsking in the fifth Jurassic movie, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, about the bad guys wanting to “weaponize” the dinos, both the original flavor and the new-formula extra-crispy.

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