Jurassic World at Universal Studios Hollywood got a surprise opening. We took a ride.
Jurassic Park: The Ride has been a centerpiece of Universal Studios Hollywood since its opening more than two decades ago. Its showstopping mechanical dinosaurs, along with the majestic 30-foot King Kong that burned in the 2008 fire at the studios, helped make this relatively compact theme park feel epic.
That ride, however, has been revamped with newer, bigger effects and is now known as Jurassic World: The Ride. It starts not with the former’s calming, mesmerizing scene in which the elongated neck of the veggiesaurus towered over our boats. Instead, we glide into an aquarium with a shark-eating mosasaurus looking hungrily at us tourists. Forget any moments to luxuriate in John Williams’ rousing score; we may as well be dangling on a fishing rod from the ride’s opening seconds.
The ride did need an update. Its dinos were looking more static with each passing year, details were disappearing and its best effects, such as a falling Jeep, had long been in need of repair. But the two “Jurassic World” films are narratives that put thrills-per-hour ahead of story. They are, in short, cinematic attempts at lesser theme park attractions, one the original Jurassic Park: The Ride certainly was not.
And that’s why it’s disappointing for Jurassic World to open with a mosasaurus in a giant virtual fish tank, which recalls less the reverence for dinosaurs of “Jurassic Park” and more the silly theme park disaster movie that was “Jaws 3.”
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