[Coach]

Just saw it last night and had a lot of fun.

I honestly didn't see any corn at all in the Raptor stuff. If they are intelligent as has been indicated throughout the series, and they are bred in captivity, I don't see why they couldn't be trained like dogs. I thought the relationship between Owen and the Raptors was the most interesting part of the movie. I thought Pratt was great. The humour in the movie hit the mark for the most part "Your boyfriend's a badass."

I thought the characteristics of the main bad dino gave it an "Alien" type feel where you never knew when it could pop out and that suspense held very well through most of it.

The thing I think that is splitting people is perhaps the dino battles. The original and really the first 3 in general had little to no interaction between the animals and it was mostly about the people running from the monsters. I liked that they had battles between predators looking for their place in the food chain. It makes perfect sense to me that these animals would end up fighting if they were left in the open.

Some predictable stuff (splicing Raptor into the big one, Raptor antagonist dies by Raptor, T-Rex battle). I thought Howard was just OK. She got better near the end, but I didn't think held the stiff CEO type very well at the beginning.

There was some stuff that I noticed they just kind of skimmed over. That flying Raptor thing when the Pteros escaped, Grady didn't have any questions about that? What happened to the scientist, it seems like they were going to kill him or something. I liked the Hammond-type guy flying the helicopter, but hoped he survived or at least did a little more. Would have liked to see Howard grab some souvenir shoes to wear or something. Women running from animals that can keep up to cars in heels ticks me off. She would be done. And how did she get through the jungle in those?

Also, thought it was quite a bit more violent than the other three.

Anyways, I really enjoyed it, 8/10.