Jurassic World: Rebirth Is the Best Sequel Since Spielberg Left the Park

Just outside the theater hosting my screening of  Jurassic World: Rebirth was a marketing installation featuring life-sized velociraptors, an archway bearing the words JURASSIC PARK, and at least one Jeep Wrangler patterned directly after Spielberg's 1993 film. It was clear from the jump that the marketing team behind Rebirth wanted the audience to associate the film not with the at-times-awful  Jurassic World  trilogy that immediately preceded it, but specifically with the original Park , still far and way the best of the bunch.  That  Rebirth  manages to live up to such lofty expectations at all is a minor miracle, but director Gareth Edwards rustles up some uncharacteristic Spielberg cheese and charm, and the result is the best  Jurassic sequel since at least Spielberg's own follow-up,  The Lost World: Jurassic Park . Indeed, there are long stretches here that shamelessly allude to Spielbergian horror—who knew an extended Jaws homage cou

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