Jurassic World Rebirth has sparked mixed reviews, with comments labeling it as lacking originality and spirit compared to the original Jurassic Park. Despite this, the franchise remains commercially successful, having grossed over a billion dollars in previous films. Generational divides influence fan reception, with younger audiences often cherishing Jurassic Park while older viewers gravitate towards Jaws. The lasting admiration for Jurassic Park contrasts with the original's mixed critical reception, illustrating a complex relationship between timeless classics and their sequels.
Not everyone is grumbling, of course. The three previous Jurassic World movies each made more than a billion dollars worldwide, and Rebirth is doing just fine in early sales.
While this is a broad generalization, people born after 1980 or so tend to revere Jurassic Park as one of the defining visual-effects thrillers, creature features, and all-around spectacular-adventure triumphs of their movie-watching lives.
A whole lot of audience members and critics in 2025 fall on the Jurassic Park side of that line, enough that it's easy to forget how Jurassic Park's original reviews were more good than great.
Terms like 'out of ideas,' 'incurious,' and 'shell of its former self' have been thrown around to describe the latest iteration, Jurassic World Rebirth.
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