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Friday 10 June 2022
Review: Chaos reigns in ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’

By LINDSEY BAHR public intellectual. And
AP Film Writer they’re also looking for the
The enduring, collective clone girl, Maisie (Isabella
love for “Jurassic Park” is Sermon), from the last film.
immensely hard to explain. She’s been in hiding with
Steven Spielberg’s 1993 Owen (Chris Pratt) and
film implanted itself into our Claire (Bryce Dallas How-
cultural consciousness as a ard) for the past few years.
kind of platonic ideal of a There is a lot of elaborate
blockbuster. And it wasn’t wheel-spinning and glo-
just the 10-year-olds hav- betrotting to get everyone
ing a formative experience to the Biosin headquarters
at the movie theater. Most in the Dolomites, a Bond
everyone, it seems, includ- villian complex that’s sur-
ing those who were adults rounded by a dino sanctu-
at the time and those who ary.
wouldn’t be born for anoth- It’s a lot of people too.
er decade or more, has a At some points, there are
story about just how much eight running from dino-
that movie means to them. saurs together. Oddly, this
It doesn’t even matter how doesn’t have the effect of
many times you watch it, or upping the stakes. It’s more
how much better special like watching a tour group
effects get: “Jurassic Park” This image released by Universal Pictures shows, from left, Jeff Goldblum, Sam Neill, Laura Dern, at an experiential amuse-
never tarnishes, it just re- Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt, Isabella Sermon and DeWanda Wise in a scene from “Jurassic ment park exhibit, which
World Dominion.”
mains perfectly preserved Associated Press might have something to
in amber. do with the lingering prob-
It’s hard to fault anyone chase through the streets side the point. After the might recall, was the guy lem that it may not be fun
for trying to recapture that of Taos, immense pleasure events of “Jurassic World: looking to buy the embryos to watch the dinosaurs run
magic — a filmmaker, a in watching Sam Neill, Lau- Fallen Kingdom,” dinosaurs in the first film. amok anymore, no matter
studio, or an audience ra Dern and Jeff Goldblum are just...around. There’s Dodgson has morphed how big they’ve gotten.
looking for a fun time at together again and the even a black-market op- from a sweaty Gordon Colin Trevorrow is back in
the movies. Even Spielberg fun addition of a hotshot eration in Taos that is so Gekko-type on vacation the director’s chair and
himself had trouble. But pilot played by DeWanda elaborate, you’d think we into a Steve Jobs-ian vision- shares a writing credit with
now, somehow, we’re six Wise. And there is wall-to- were 30 years into a post- ary who is still up to no good Emily Carmichael, who
movies and three decades wall action that makes the dino dystopia and not just and after profits. Dern’s Ellie adds value and wit to the
in and about as far as one almost two and a half hour several years after dinos Sattler suspects that they’re proceedings, but it’s hard
could get from the spark runtime go by swiftly. But I escaped into the wild. But, behind a locust epidemic to say what it all adds up
that made that first one so also can’t say that I didn’t again, “Dominion” isn’t re- that’s destroying all the to. It’s fun at times and sil-
special as we supposedly burst out laughing several ally about the dinosaurs. food that isn’t grown with ly at others. But it doesn’t
bid farewell to the “Jurassic times at parts that were not It’s about locusts and tech Biosin seed and decides to course correct enough to
World” era with “ Jurassic designed to be funny. giants. use it as an excuse to team redeem this franchise or
World: Dominion.” “Jurassic World: Dominion” A company called Biosin is up with Neill’s Alan Grant bring it back to Earth. “Ju-
I can’t say I didn’t have is a chaotic mishmash on the big bad here and it’s again for the first time in rassic World” started too
some real fun with “Domin- an epic scale and, believe run by a man named Lewis years. Conveniently, Biosin big. There was nowhere to
ion.” There is an exceed- it or not, the dinosaurs (who Dodgson (now played by is also where Goldblum’s grow, except at the box
ingly well-done motorcycle look great) are almost be- Campbell Scott) who, you Ian Malcolm is an in-house office.q

Johnny Depp and Jeff Beck announce

new joint album, ‘18’

endary guitarist Jeff Beck Gaye’s soul classic “What’s the rock group Hollywood
will release an album of Going On.” There also are Vampires with Alice Coo-
mostly covers next month. versions of Davy Spillane’s per and Joe Perry, started
The duo’s 13-track album “Midnight Walker” and two recording with Beck in
is titled “18” and will drop songs from the Beach Boys’ 2019, and Depp has joined
on July 15. They said they masterpiece, “Pet Sounds” Beck’s current European
titled the album after the — “Caroline, No” and tour.
creative outburst they felt “Don’t Talk (Put Your Head Earlier this month, a jury
working together. “We On My Shoulder).” sided with Depp in his defa-
would joke about how we Depp supplied two origi- mation lawsuit against ex-
felt 18 again, so that just nals, including “This Is A wife Amber Heard, award-
Jeff Beck appears at the 59th Ivor Novello Awards in London on became the album title, Song For Miss Hedy La- ing the “Pirates of the Ca-
May 22, 2014, left, and Johnny Depp appears at the European too,” Beck said in a state- marr,” the set’s first single. ribbean” actor more than
premiere of their film, "The Rum Diary," in London on Nov. 3, 2011. ment. The cover of the album — $10 million and vindicating
Associated Press The album contains cov- a sketch of two young men his allegations that Heard
ers of The Velvet Under- in white T-shirts — was de- defamed him by accus-
By MARK KENNEDY his legal battle with his ex- ground’s “Venus In Furs,” signed by Beck’s wife, San- ing him of abusing her be-
AP Entertainment Writer wife, Johnny Depp has an- the Everly Brothers’ ballad dra. fore and during their brief
NEW YORK (AP) — Fresh off nounced that he and leg- “Let It Be Me” and Marvin Depp, long a member of marriage.q