Jurassic World Rebirth summaries

[gabeluna27]

Today, I have just watched Jurassic World Rebirth for the first time, and with my family. This won't be a review, but a summary of what it is and has, but what I can say is we all found it thrilling!

Part 1:
Rebirth starts off in 2010, 17 years before the main events, showcasing the downfall of Ile Saint-Hubert, a top-secret island owned by InGen for both park owners of JP and JW. The dinos there were designed to maintain audience interest, but a lot resulted in mutations which they ended up abandoning on said island. The biggest of the mutated dinosaurs, the Distortus rex, a mutated Tyrannosaurus, causes chaos when a candy rapper sucked up in a ventilation system caused a systems failure. Contrary to popular belief, the D-rex scene in this part wasn't closed by the woman in the trailer, but closed automatically and she tried to free the trapped man but later refused when she sees the big thing emerge from the fog.


17 years into the present, and 5 years after Dominion, the post-Mesozoic Earth eventually proves it's not particularly hospitable for the dinosaurs over time due to the modern atmosphere and overall ecosystems and environments eventually proving to be ill-suited for healthy populations, except for the equatorial regions which have now travel restrictions because of it. They still do exist beyond the equator, but their numbers are still smaller by comparison. Interest in dinosaurs has also been dwindling over time. Still, Parker-Genix, a pharmaceutical company, sees opportunity on these animals being useful for human health.


In BTS interviews, one of the main killers or humanity is heart disease. In this move, they are looking for DNA sample of the biggest dinosaurs on Earth, all isolated at Saint-Hubert, to find the cure for heart disease. It might seem far-fetched in reality, but it's more grounded in reality than you think. Today, and for decades, we are studying the cells of the biggest animals today, elephants and whales, to find a way to cure cancer due to their lower risk of such health problems. Cancer and heart disease are totally unrelated, but both cases in real-life and the movie respectively show that big animals are used for pharmaceutical studies in the most generalized sense. So, I do wonder if any thought about that went into this film when deciding on the heart disease cure plot?

 

[gabeluna27]

Part 2:

The heroes of this movie are split into two groups: a mercenary team, and a civilian family who intertwine with each other's stories.

• The main mercs are Zora Bennett (a covert op. expert who has a history of personal traumas prior), Dr. Henry Loomis (a paleontologist who cares deeply for and about dinosaurs, whose museum is also being taken out due to the diminished public interest), Duncan Kincaid (the team leader), Marin Krebs (an executive of Parker-Genix who founded the mission, and who puts the missions first in wanting the samples for the company themselves for the money, thus the villain of this movie), and several other misc. mercs named Bobby Atwater, LeClerc, and Nina. Of the team of 7, only Zora, Loomis, and Duncan survive. Nina and Bobby are eaten by Spinos, LeClerc was swallowed by a Quetz, and Martin was eaten by the D-rex while trying to escape to the docks
  
  
• The family, the Delgados, consists of 4 members: Ruben (the father), Teresa (the oldest daughter, likely either a teen or young adult), Isabella (the youngest daughter, a little girl child), and Xavier Dobbs (Teresa's boyfriend). All four family members survive the ordeal. They ended up intertwining with the merc team when their sailboat happened to pass near the island's perimeter where the dinos are and was attacked by the Mosasaurus.

There are a total of 20 dinosaurs in the movie, including dead species in and out of the lab. It's less than Dominion's, and the first time a movie sequel has less species than any of its predecessors. Some appear for a very short time, others have more relevance.

1. Titanosaurus (with sails on their backs and necks that retract in and out)
2. Quetzalcoatlus (a radically new design)
3. Mosasaurus (a new design)
4. Compsognathus (red in color instead of green)
5. Aquilops
6. Anurognathus
7. Ankylosaurus (seen only for a very short time)
8. Triceratops (a dead mutant with two heads inside of a lab tube)
9. Pteranodon (I do believe some appear on the island itself, but it's sometimes hard to tell, but a tiny variety, if it is even a Pteranodon, appears in a bird cage in the bar sequence)
10. Dilophosaurus (new colors and pattern seen only for a short time, and the first time it was ever shown as a CGI living dinosaur)
11. Velociraptor (new colors and pattern seen only for a short time)
12. Parasaurolophus (carcass of the blue Dominion variant)
13. Apatosaurus (only one individual is seen and said to be the last of its kind on the mainland, at least outside of the equator, which appears in the streets of New York)
14. Spinosaurus (an entirely and radically new design in almost every aspect and way possible)
15. Tyrannosaurus rex (new look while keeping the basic familiar design)
16. Distortus rex (a giant and failed mutated T.Rex with an enlarged head and a second pair of much larger and longer arms that it can walk on, sometimes like a gorilla)
17. Mutadon (mutated raptor-pterosaur hybrids that can fly)

There's also a slithery water creature in the waters of where the mercs were crossing. However, it's unclear if it's a real prehistoric animal or fictional native animal or whatever. Nor if it's a fish (eel, lamprey, or whatever else), a snake, or even an amphibian. Either way, I'm including it on the list of 20 species.

Plus, two unexpected inclusions. A netted decapitated head of a Dunkleosteus in the Suriname sequence, and an amphibian species of some sort seen living on Saint-Hubert. These are surprises for me because I absolutely did not expect these things to be in the film in some way, let alone this soon in the overall core Jurassic Park/World canon. A prehistoric fish, implied to be alive in the present and likely recreated like all other extinct animals, as well as an implied prehistoric amphibian. It is unknown if the amphibian is of any particular extinct real-world species as consultant Steve Brusatte doesn't know about it either, according to his tweets on X.



Of all the things I want to know about Rebirth's dinosaurs, it's these questions I have that I want to solve:
1. Was the Quetz supposed to be Thanatosdrakon, as the rumors say?
2. What was the Titanosaurus based on, since the genus itself is measured to be much smaller than what was shown?
3. Why was the Spinosaurus decided to be radically changed compared to its JPIII incarnation?
4. What are the swamp creatures, the amphibian and the slithery-thing, supposed to be, if anything at all?

 

[gabeluna27]

Part 3:

The main events start off when the merc are after their first target, the Mosasaurus, another individual that InGen created that has a tracker on it, which also has wrecked the Delgado's sailboat. They are rescued by the merc party but are attacked by it again alongside a group of four Spinosaurus, and a fifth one on the beach, said to be an interspecies relationship. Both parties become separated during the chaos and become shipwrecked. Martin Krebbs wants the samples to be owned by Parker-Genix alone, and will do anything to keep it that way, hence is why he stopped Teresa's call for help and refused to rescue her during the boat attack sequence that separates both the parties.

The team collects the remaining samples on the island, seeing wonderful sights and facing dangers that costs one of them. The Titanosaurus sequence is by far one of the most spectacular moments in the film, where it even has the JP-style music playing in it. In fact, just like Jurassic World itself, this movie has a lot of JP-styled music tracks on it, even in the end where it almost made me tear up.

The Delgado family are my favorite characters in terms of character relationship development, such as Xavier, as lazy as he is, proving himself to be a good family member and why Teresa likes him as a boyfriend, and Isabella overcoming her fears when she finds an Aquilops she befriends and names "Dollores" who becomes her emotional support companion, and who she also takes home with them in the end. My favorite scene is one that involves them and the T.Rex chasing them down the river and rapids, which is confirmed to be an unused concept for JP itself brought to life.

The final sequence involves them escaping from the two horribly mutated dinosaurs: the Distortus rex and the Mutadons. The D-Rex scene is one that is full of emotion because Duncan lures it away from the surviving heroes and seemingly sacrifices his own life doing it, only to then realize he has survived and is rescued shortly after. The D-rex, while a horribly mutated T.Rex, unlike the dangerous hybrid dinosaurs, survives and still lives on the island in the aftermath.

The film also explores the question of who the samples should go to. Either to Parker-Genix where only a few people would ever go to and Zora gets the money, or to everyone by making open source so more lives are saved but will not ever get the money. Eventually, Zora decides it's best to do the latter, knowing it's the right thing to do.


The ending of when this happens is also so much like the original JP ending in terms of the music, the sight of a group of animals following the same direction as the escapees (dolphins instead of pelicans), and the sun position of where the heroes are heading. That alone was enough to almost make me tear up.


My only disappointed nitpicks are the lack of explanation of the mutants, specifically about when these things were made (like, either all during 2010 or whenever the opening took place, or some of them were made earlier like during the 1970s or 1980s since the D-rex is confirmed in interview articles to be one of many failed attempts of creating a T.Rex), and the fact I was expecting just a little more species, particularly those I have on a list of mine, for reasons I've alluded to here on the forums before.

Overall though, this was great. And I'll be perfectly honest here, of all seven main films, including Jurassic Park itself, Rebirth is one I am willing see again with my family or anyone else sometime later at home!

 

[VSSEMike]

Jurassic World: Rebirth is less of a dinosaur-themed movie but more of a horror monster movie.

There is no telling when the Anurognathus, Aquilops, and Titanosaurus be added in Jurassic World: Evolution 3. There should be something more besides the new natural species. Honestly, I prefer seeing Dr. Henry Loomis as a new independent character since the time of Claire Dearing and Owen Grady is over.