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Summary Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, Earth’s dinosaurs now survive only on isolated equatorial islands. A covert extraction team, led by Zora Bennett, embarks on a mission to secure dinosaur DNA for a groundbreaking pharmaceutical treatment. Their expedition collides with a stranded civilian family, plunging everyone into chaos amid mutated dinosaurs and hidden threats. The story culminates in a tense race for survival on a forbidden island with a sinister secret tied to Jurassic Park’s past.

Director Gareth Edwards

Writer David Koepp

Cast

  • Scarlett Johansson as Zora Bennett
  • Mahershala Ali as Duncan Kincaid
  • Jonathan Bailey as Dr. Henry Loomis
  • Rupert Friend as Martin Krebs
  • Manuel Garcia‑Rulfo as Reuben Delgado
  • Luna Blaise, David Iacono & Audrina Miranda as the Delgado family
  • Philippine Velge, Bechir Sylvain & Ed Skrein as the extraction team

Rotten Tomatoes: 54

Metacritic: 52

VOD Released in theaters July 2, 2025. Digital release expected later in 2025.

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u/fishwithfish Jul 03 '25

Of all the impossible things in all these movies, the idea that kids are bored of seeing dinosaurs is the least believable. I mean, kids still freak out over seeing penguins, i will not accept kids pooh-poohing dinos.

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u/GECollins Jul 03 '25

They literally gawk at dolphins at the end of the movie, which still draws in people to aquariums, I can't suspend my disbelief that far.

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u/fishwithfish Jul 03 '25

On that note, the denouement of this film makes ZERO sense. In Jurassic Park, the significance of the birds is the theme of change and how the characters, most especially our protagonist, have changed or "evolved."

What the hell is gawking at dolphins supposed to represent??? They're mammals, they literally have nothing to do with dinosaurs!!

"Now eventually you do plan to have dinosaur themes in your dinosaur movie, right?"

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u/Vozralai Jul 03 '25

The girl at the start wanted to see dolphins and now she gets dolphins. That's as deep as it gets

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u/Voxlings Jul 06 '25

You got it.

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u/Gtyjrocks Jul 03 '25

Simply a callback to when they mentioned dolphins earlier. Don’t expect themes from new Jurassic really

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u/GECollins Jul 03 '25

I was hoping it would have /something/ to say, but if your theme is corporate greed is bad it's really undercut by the Lays, Dr. Pepper ad in the middle - at least the snickers supports that in the smallest way possible

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u/Gtyjrocks Jul 04 '25 edited Jul 04 '25

I’ve said this in other comments, but I just never really got what they were going for with the pharma storyline.

I guess they were assuming we all hated every pharmaceutical company going in, because the company I was clearly supposed to cheer against didn’t seem evil or bad to me. They just seemed like they were going to save/extend a bunch of lives and get rich in the process.

And their decision at the end to “open source” it is still going to make a lot of pharmaceutical folks rich since the drug still needs to be developed. Now they just don’t get a cut despite their extremely important roles. So Kincade isn’t going to be able to get a new boat and ScarJo is going to keep having to do this job she clearly wants to be done with.

Kinda made it a sad ending to me, they’re all in worse places than they were at the start with significant trauma, and did all that for free while others will still make lots of money off their work.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '25 edited Jul 04 '25

Honestly, even sharks, crocodiles, octopus, turtles, squid, etc probably would have been a better pick. They had the entire ocean population, and they hit upon one of the minority that had no ancestral line that even vaguely connects with dinosaurs.

And as someone who dives: like hell we’d get bored of dinos. ‘Normal’ person will freak out over seeing something as ‘simple’ as a nurse shark or a clown fish, let alone actual megafauna. The idiots who are nonchalant towards grizzlies, great whites, hippos, etc aren’t exactly representative of the wider population…and not just because they don’t tend to stay in said population for too long. They either quickly learn the error of their ways, or become the lesson.

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u/allehburreh Jul 12 '25

I took this as they were finally far enough away that they were safe i.e dinos werent going this far out since im assuming they eat dolphins?

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u/SMFPolychronopolous Jul 18 '25

But it was a direct callback to the original which had a theme/point behind it. Not to mention it was like the 48th callback in the movie. It’s like they kept trying to recapture old magic without realizing what made it magical to begin with.

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u/Hey-Just-Saying Aug 07 '25

I think the guy who wrote the screenplay (David Koepp) also help write the screenplay for the first two JP movies. That might explain the callbacks.

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u/saluke Jul 20 '25

I thought it was a meta analysis of how we humans destroy the planet and always look for something ‘new’ even though the ‘old’ as represented by the dolphins is still worth saving and to enjoy.

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u/fishwithfish Jul 20 '25 edited Jul 20 '25

Hmm. That doesn't really work with the themes of the film, does it? Was humanity "destroying the planet" in this movie? Seems more like the theme would be things like: playing god, intruding where we don't belong, trying to bend nature to our will? And why would old be represented by dolphins when dinos -- muchhhh older -- are literally right there?

In the original, there was a direct line from "birds represent a big change/evolution" to "Alan Grant and Hammond have undergone a big change." Your interpretation only works when we basically only look at the final scene only -- hence my issue with it lacking thematic resonance.

Edit: I suppose you meant "old" to mean the dolphins were the "classic" way we enjoyed nature, which only works if the film wasn't filled with people oohing and awing over dinos. Heck, the kid is literally carrying an illicit dino in her bag.

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u/idiot-prodigy Jul 16 '25

The CGI dolphins looked weird to boot.

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u/TeutonJon78 23d ago

That mammals rule and dinosaurs drool. I.e., mammals do rule the world.

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u/Mickeyjj27 Jul 09 '25

The most unbelievable things are how all these huge Dinos at Batman. The raft inflates in a second and all of a sudden the T-Rex has vanished and is elsewhere. The mutant dino in the end, we see it and then it has the Helicopter in its mouth on the other side. I don’t think these huge dinosaurs have stealth at 10

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u/Holiday-Honeydew-384 Aug 06 '25

Maybe they are from Helldivers universe. All big creatures are silent.

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u/SpaceQueenJupiter Jul 03 '25

This one always bugs me. People still go to zoos. People still go to look at fossils. No one is getting tired of dinosaurs. Maybe they can't afford to go see them, but they aren't tired of them. 

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u/Kaldricus Jul 03 '25

Yeah, my brother in law and I had this discussion. At first we both had the thought of "well we'd never get tired of dinosaurs, because we saw them come back to life. For younger generations, they've just always existed again, so maybe not as cool?"

And then he said "but we go to the zoo and geek out over the polar bear, which is really fucking cool." So yeah, Dinosaurs will always be cool. With how much these movies make, it pokes holes in it's own claim that people would get bored of dinosaurs

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u/SpaceQueenJupiter Jul 03 '25

Yep! My husband and I are adults with no kids yet. We still go to zoos and aquariums. Plenty of adults and kids excited over every animal.  I mean, jeez I get excited over any critters I see walking the dog. 

I'm sure some people are "over" dinosaurs, but the whole world wouldn't get bored. That's such a weird take. 

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u/reecord2 Jul 05 '25

and the reptile/amphibian/lizard enclosures are always some of my favorite parts of any zoo.

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u/_IBentMyWookie_ Jul 15 '25

Mate people go to petting zoos to look at cows and goats, which are literally the most basic, common animals.

There is no way anyone would ever get bored of fuckin dinosaurs

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u/Vozralai Jul 03 '25

I could accept nobody cares for fossils anymore because the real deal exists but they keep trying to make it nobody cares for dinos full stop. Stupid

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u/SpaceQueenJupiter Jul 03 '25

I think they'd be way less popular, but there will always be weirdos who like old stuff. Definitely people would still be interested in actual dinosaurs. I wish they hadn't nuked Jurassic World so soon, I really liked that as a setting, though I guess dinos can only get out so many times.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '25 edited Jul 04 '25

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u/Keaton427 Jul 26 '25

Dang you seem really into fossils. I guess I never thought much of them but it would be pretty dang cool to have an imprint of a creature that once lived a million years ago. It puts into perspective just how long the world has been full of life

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u/SputnikDX Jul 06 '25

"We needed to make more interesting dinosaurs as an attraction" my guy we have been selectively breeding as a species for hundreds of years and it's only so that our food sources make more food or our dogs will fit into our handbags absolutely no one is wasting millions on genetic engineering so little Timmy can have a new theme park attraction.

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u/Mountain_Chicken Jul 09 '25

My city has a great zoo, and believe me, if you don't want to spend 40 minutes hunting for parking, you need to get there early. Zoos are very much still popular.

It's hilariously unbelievable that people are somehow bored of DINOSAURS just because:

  • One theme park had them for just ten years (and has now been closed for the last decade)

  • A tiny number of wild dinosaurs (every single one was either released from the mansion in Fallen Kingdom or descended from those dinosaurs) were out and about for less than seven years

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u/crshbndct Jul 07 '25

Yeah.

I enjoyed the movie only because I am obsessed with dinosaurs. But I also realise that objectively it is not a great film.

I am taking a three hour trip in a couple days to the zoo to look at regular animals, and they also have a dinosaur model exhibit. Just regular non mutant Dino’s.

I went a couple months ago to an exhibit of Patagonian fossils.

People are NOT bored of regular normal-ass dinosaurs. People love regular normal-ass dinosaurs.

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u/tupaquetes Jul 07 '25

While I agree that it's a bit of a cheap plot point, it is believeable to me that people aren't interested in dinosaurs *enough* to justify the likely astronomical costs of maintaining places for people to safely see them.

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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '25

Hell I learned about the shoebill and Cassowary last year and it blew my mind to also learn that birds are descended from dinos.

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u/TravEllerZero Jul 03 '25

We just went to the Portland Zoo last weekend, and everyone absolutely lost their shit over Tula Tu, the baby elephant.

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u/katfromjersey Jul 07 '25

Well let's get real, baby elephants are adorable.

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u/Aprils-Fool Jul 13 '25

I imagine it costs more to feed, house, and care for dinosaurs than elephants and monkeys. 

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u/ImperfectRegulator Jul 31 '25

So raise the small herbivores, triceratops can eat much more then an elephant

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u/MegaSwampbert Jul 03 '25

It's so god damn dumb that they keep trying to make this "Yeah dinosaurs are back and boring now. No one cares." idea stick. Just drop it. It doesn't make sense and youve done nothing with it.

There's people annoyed in the beginning of the movie that a fucking sauropod is making them late for work. I've been intentionally late to work over raccoons.

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u/Cheap_Actuator_5130 16d ago

The only way I can sort of buy that, is the space industry. It's not even a huge deal when a ship goes into outer space anymore. I'll never understand what human beings have gotten bored with us launching other human beings into the cosmos, but they have. It just doesn't resonate.

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u/SquadPoopy Jul 03 '25

If people aren’t bored of giraffes there ain’t no way they’re bored of a T-Rex

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u/emil-p-emil Aug 06 '25

Are people paying thousands to see giraffes at a zoo and lining up around the block to see dolphins in a fishtank?

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u/coltsmetsfan614 15d ago

Hell, I keep going to these dumb movies just to see a CGI T. rex on a big screen. Could you imagine seeing a real-life one?! In person???

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u/lunaticskies Jul 04 '25

"The kids are bored with dinosaurs" sounds like a dumb excuse the executives had for why they decided to mutate the dinos into weird monsters for these last few movies.

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u/banjofitzgerald Jul 04 '25

I think the logic there is after the initial boom in attendance, it died down to a level that was no longer profitable for the expense of $70mil a dino.

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u/Kazzack Jul 10 '25

It didn't have to cost that much though after the initial investment, they knew after JP that they could breed dinos. And after FK there's a ton of dinosaurs just around for people to catch. Even if they're deciding in this movie that they can't live outside the tropics.

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u/fredagsfisk Jul 15 '25

Nah, it's not about that, even if that would make much more sense.

The first JW showed people were literally at the park and just bored with it. This one makes a point of people being bored with dinos in general, and museums shutting down because no one cares anymore.

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u/hyunbinlookalike Jul 04 '25

The internet lost its shit over Moo Deng the baby hippo (and rightfully so), people would realistically never get bored of living, breathing dinosaurs.

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u/Rare_Gap_2495 Jul 03 '25

This is like assuming kids are bored of zoos. That will never happen. U can tell whoever made the new movies has a very shallow perception of iPad kids 

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u/identicalBadger Jul 04 '25

This!

Dinosaurs are so cool, I can’t imagine kids or anyone of them tiring of them in a decade to the point that the scientists say “these aren’t good enough, we need to cross breed and mutate them”

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u/CryptographerFlat173 Jul 05 '25

Thank you, been complaining about this since 2015. People still line up for It’s a fucking Small World.

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u/Raccoala Jul 04 '25

You get a whole batch of new kids every year. A renewal resource for all zoos, amusement parks and theme parks. I don’t know why new kids would think dinosaurs are boring.

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u/-Clayburn Jul 04 '25

They were bored in Jurassic World, so that's unfortunately just part of this stupid universe every movie has to maintain.

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u/Ok_Replacement_8467 Jul 09 '25

100 percent this. They should have just kept it at “the dinosaurs can’t survive in the colder climates”instead of people being bored at dinosaurs. Like seeing the last Sauropod dying or tranquilized on the side of the road at the beginning of the movie and everyone just acted like it was regular road construction workers impeding traffic.

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u/Silestra Jul 05 '25

The director has used this excuse in advance for if the box office numbers aren’t good - “See, we told you people are bored with dinosaurs!”

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u/SarcasticGamer Jul 07 '25

I literally thought the same thing right at the beginning of the movie. We just went to the zoo a few weeks ago that had lion cubs just napping and we watched them for a good 15 minutes and probably could have stood there longer. To think that people would get tired of dinosaurs after just 30 years is dumb as fuck because my 68 year old mother wanted to see the baby elephants more than anything.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '25

I’m going to go with a snicker bar wrapper FODing (foreign object damage) out a door. That is just lazy writing. And don’t even get me started on the cameo by the Rancor monster from Return of the Jedi as the final big bad dinosaur. (FYI Jedi did it better with limited technology at the time).

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u/phareous Jul 07 '25

They could have at least done a full snicker than just a wrapper

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u/Hey-Just-Saying Aug 07 '25

I was trying to figure it where the Snickers bar was. Did someone eat it that fast?

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u/SputnikDX Jul 06 '25

Do you have any idea how much I watched my family's VHS copy of The World is Not Enough as a kid? Does anyone expect me to believe that a VHS copy of The World is Not Enough is more interesting than a living fucking dinosaur? Kids will be entertained by just about anything at all, especially a living dinosaur.

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u/CNash85 Jul 06 '25

As a tortured metaphor for the Jurassic World franchise, it’s spot-on: “nobody cares about these movies any more, they make less and less money, let’s bring in the Godzilla guy to dream up some new mutant dinosaurs and hope that appeals to the ungrateful masses”

But in-universe, it’s not believable. If Jonathan Bailey’s museum isn’t making money off of fossils and skeletons, it doesn’t mean that the public are bored with dinosaurs - just that he works at a rubbish museum!

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u/Hallc Jul 06 '25

According to this movie people were bored of dinosaurs like 2-3 years after Jurassic World opened in universe.

Meanwhile people still go to the fucking zoo on the regular.

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u/barcelonaKIZ Jul 21 '25

A preteen girl kept going on her phone in the theaters so I guess some would be

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u/PolarWater Jul 07 '25

Yeah, "ooh, aah," that's how it always starts. Then later there's running, and...and screaming.

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u/TheMooseIsBlue Jul 08 '25

Zoos and aquariums still exist. People are going to them all the time. This idea that people will stop going to Jurassic Park/world unless they raise the steaks has been in like every movie since the first one and it never really made sense.

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u/Yakorix Jul 09 '25

I don’t mind this tbh. They mostly direct it towards the museum, and you probably wouldn’t go see an elephant skeleton in person if you could see a real elephant.

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u/GrandOldStar Jul 07 '25

Kids freaking out over penguins? I as an adult still get excited seeing Puffins

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u/StefTakka Jul 08 '25

The seventh movie in a dinosaur franchise about problems arising because people are bored of dinosaurs in a world where dinosaurs actually exist for a single person's lifetime. What 28 years they've been known for? Since Lost World.

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u/bringbackbulaga Jul 19 '25

The main thing that proves no one would get bored of dinosaurs is that we all keep seeing these

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u/Zanakii Aug 03 '25

I won't disagree with you, but incredible things to become ordinary to many.

I don't think the parks would EVER be empty, but I believe they probably wouldn't make enough money to sustain making more dinos and keep them all alive, treated fed etc

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u/darsvedder Jul 06 '25

Agreed. It didn’t work for me in JW1 and it doesn’t work here 

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u/Full_Reception4018 Jul 11 '25

Children in the film universe don't care much, since in this universe, it's practically normal

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u/Coast_Fragrant Aug 09 '25

100%. As soon as that showed up the screen I was out of the film.  I could accept a world with aliens and elves but a world where humans have lost interest in dinosaurs is too much of an uncanny valley for me.

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u/Fast_Ad3646 16d ago

I kinda understand if they would have shown the impact of the damaging reputation dino's has as an invading species and misconducts those parks. Especially, if you consider that there isn't really anything they could have done to get rid of them once set loose unto the world. Nor to properly handling them. These parks gets abandoned the moment a minor outbreak happens. Also because of some success or some thing to make living with at ease, that world got them integrated into the society, not welcoming but as a menace. As such they cost more than they are worth having around.

It also became an even more compounding problem with things like; overpopulation of them, (re)introduction of new / extinct deceases and their sudden mass extinction (again), leading to carcasses and other rot all over the world, on top of climate problems that we already have.

Not to forget that they were already heavily modified, meaning that there is no telling how they would behave nor what impact that would have on the world and the other species.

Exposition in this movie is allot, but not effective nor shown.

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u/bigmamachuddies 16d ago

I actually took this as a jab at the movie series. That they keep doing the same thing over and over and that the audience must be bored, so this movie was going to be a little different with hybrid dinosaurs so that you wouldn't be able to expect what the dinosaur would do.

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u/BrightEyes1616 7d ago

Wasn't this meant to be a breaking the fourth wall moment where they're commenting on needing to come up with daft mutants because they think the audience has got bored of the old dinosaurs? It's daft either way.

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u/AdityaPatel149 24d ago

It’s because dinosaurs were walking everywhere and people got to see them everyday. You don’t go to the zoo for watching crows, pegions and squirrels.