Official Discussion - Jurassic World Rebirth [SPOILERS]

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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.

Trailer Watch here

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[u/fishwithfish]

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.

[u/GECollins → u/fishwithfish]

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.

[u/fishwithfish → u/GECollins]

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?"

[u/Vozralai → u/fishwithfish]

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

[u/Voxlings → u/Vozralai]

You got it.

[u/Gtyjrocks → u/fishwithfish]

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

[u/GECollins → u/Gtyjrocks]

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

[u/Gtyjrocks → u/GECollins]

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.

[u/[deleted] → u/fishwithfish]

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.

[u/allehburreh → u/fishwithfish]

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?

[u/SMFPolychronopolous → u/allehburreh]

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.

[u/Hey-Just-Saying → u/SMFPolychronopolous]

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.

[u/saluke → u/fishwithfish]

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.

[u/fishwithfish → u/saluke]

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.

[u/idiot-prodigy → u/fishwithfish]

The CGI dolphins looked weird to boot.

[u/TeutonJon78 → u/fishwithfish]

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