Is ‘Jurassic World’ Exceptionally Dumb?

Yes, it is.

The inciting incident of the chaos at the heart of the movie is the escape of a genetically engineered dinosaur, Indominus Rex (and speaking of dinosaurs how is it that they don’t look as convincing as those from the original movie, which came out 15 years earlier) which escapes its enclosure and goes about instigating all sorts of havoc).

It’s worth noting, in general, that the dinosaurs in the Jurassic Park movies seem particularly intent on eating people, which is odd when you take into account how many they would have to eat to make a satisfying meal, never mind the effort and energy that would be expended in catching us in the first place.

In other words, I’m saying that if dinosaurs existed in the modern day we likely wouldn’t be the first choice of the larger predators as far as a meal was concerned.

Anyway, Indominus Rex escapes its paddock by having cuttlefish in its genome, which it goes without saying means that it disappears into its surroundings, despite that’s not quite how a cuttlefish works.

By the way, stealth capability is one Indominus Rex doesn’t use again, implying either great intelligence of really bad screenwriting.

My money’s on the latter.

Though that’s not the dumbest bit of Jurassic World.

What is is that the Indominus Rex removed a tracking device.

The movies explains that it’s able to do this because it remembers it being inserted but that also doesn’t make sense (the movie never takes the time to establish WHY that’s a significant event in the creature’s life) because it’s not unfair to assume that the creature has undergone some other trauma at some other point, so does it remember them too?

It sounds to me like a creature primed for extinction because forgetting is a survival trait.

Though that’s also not the dumbest part (after all, it’s a movie about dinosaurs set in the present day. I’m fairly certain a few liberties would be taken).

What’s insanely stupid is that the creature apparently understood not only what a tracking device was, but it’s purpose, implying an intelligence on par with our own (if it understands something as fairly abstract as a tracking device, something if introduced to humans from the 1800’s – and maybe the early 1900’s – would probably be akin to magic, then I hate to think what else the creature understood.

That the Indominus Rex understands such a fairly abstract concept is seriously stupid.

Though to be fair the dinosaur team-up at the end of the movie is certainly in contention.

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