At first glance, the new Jurassic Park franchise sequel Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom might not seem to have a lot in common with Rampage, the April 2018 feature adaptation of the arcade and console game about monsters smashing buildings. Fallen Kingdom features protagonists trying to rescue the revived dinosaurs of Jurassic World, now trapped on the volcanic island that used to be a theme park. Rampage features mutated animals flattening buildings across the United States, on their way to a rendezvous in Chicago.

But the structure of the two movies feels remarkably similar. And the main reason for that is that they essentially have the sa …

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At one point in the new film Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Velociraptor trainer Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) fires multiple rifle shots into the "Indoraptor," a new dinosaur hybrid constructed from DNA taken from Tyrannosaurus rex samples, Velociraptors, and god knows what else. The dinosaur cowers for a couple seconds, then charges at its prey, seemingly undamaged. Like the Indominus rex in the first Jurassic World, the franchise's latest human-made dino seems to be immune to gunfire.

Obviously, there's a fair bit of scientific fudging going on in the Jurassic Park series, given that the entire series' premise is based on an incorrect idea o …

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Universal Pictures has released its final trailer for J.A. Bayona's upcoming Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.

In the first pair of trailers for the film, we saw that the park's location, Isla Nublar, is also home to an erupting volcano, which threatens to wipe out both the abandoned park and the dinosaurs that live there, four years after the events of 2015's Jurassic World. This new trailer shows that we can expect more from the film than an elaborate air rescue: there are people who are looking to save the dinosaurs for reasons other than their appeal as theme park attractions. They want to use them as weapons.

The trailer reveals that th …

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Somehow, the thrill of watching dinosaurs eat people doesn't get old, which is one reason why we're getting a sequel to 2015's Jurassic World, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. After a brief tease for the film at the end of November, Universal has released the first trailer for the film. Not only does it have plenty of dinosaur action, but there's also an exploding volcano.

Directed by A Monster Calls J.A. Bayona, the film is set after everyone escaped from the former theme park on Isla Nublar. The trailer opens with the park's former manager, Claire Dearing (played by Bryce Dallas Howard), catching up with Owen Grady (Chris Pratt), who's try …

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It's difficult to fathom why anyone in the Jurassic Park universe would still think screwing with dinosaurs with a good idea. They get a pass for the first movie, where they arguably didn't know that the magnificent dinos were going to eat everyone around them. But after The Lost World, where a T. rex wreaked havoc on San Diego, Jurassic Park 3, where I presume dinosaurs killed more people, and Jurassic World, which was filled with glorious scenes of park guests being terrorized and eaten, you'd think people might have learned their lesson. The new teaser for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, however, confirms that people's love of dinosaurs i …

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