Creating a theme park full of deadly genetically modified creatures is not the only mistake made in ‘Jurassic World’.
There is also a lot of continuity.
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The website MovieMistakes.com named the billion-dollar-grossing blockbuster the most failed movie of 2015 so far.
He claims the film, directed by Colin Trevorrow and starring Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Pratt, features 18 errors over its two-hour running time.
For example, during the scene where park manager Claire Dearing (Howard) finds her nephew Zach’s phone, the screen breaks, only to miraculously fix itself moments later.
Then there’s the moment when Owen, the wisecracking ranger played by Chris Pratt, manages to speak without his mouth moving in the waterfall.
There are also rangers who somehow change weapons, crew members seen in reflections, and wet hairstyles that change aimlessly.
Some of the issues, while arguably valid, are a little more vague.
One points out the “physical impossibility” of Claire being able to run through the jungle terrain for a good portion of the film in four-inch heels, which she’s still wearing at the end, which is actually probably fair enough.
Another suggests that restarting a Jeep abandoned in a damp garage for 20 years, as Zach and Gray do while lost in the park, might have proven more complicated than simply changing the battery.
Again, that’s probably fair enough.
But still, ‘Jurassic World’ is miles ahead of the other big mistake-makers.
‘Termintor Genisys’ comes in second with nine errors (including a Prius visible in a supposedly 1997 scene and hair that arbitrarily moves between loose and ponytailed).
Then there’s ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ with eight, ‘Ant-Man’ also with eight, and ‘Tomorrowland’ with seven (frankly, the least of their problems).
However, Trevorrow can take solace in the fact that the film worked quite well, despite some continuity and shoe-horning issues.
So far it has grossed $1.65 billion (just over £1 billion) worldwide, and probably helped him land the directing role in ‘Star Wars IX’, due out in 2019.
Image credits: Universal/Paramount
