Reviews

The movie uses its setting and plot to explore why sadness is a useful and important emotion, and teach that being happy all the time just can't be done and is impractical anyway, both rather atypical lessons, at least for PG movies.

The movie has the dinos pose an immediate threat to the park goers in one scene (an extended version of the one shown in the trailers), and for the rest of the movie it's pretty much just a reason they need to be quick about stopping the I.

It's kind of hard to figure out if the movie wants us to care about them or not; it seems to follows the common "jerk victim" routine, which of course opens up the problem of why we should care if the movie thinks they deserved it.

The creature that was shown to have a ton of powerful abilities, able to either alter reality or make people hallucinate so strongly they can hug their hallucinations, able to either turn invisible or move things with no contact, able to go anywhere it wants, able to possess people, able to make the...

To the movie's credit, if it was on purpose, it gets notably less blatant as the movie goes on.

And the screen time they take is not screen time the movie had to spare; two of the penguins don't get plots or development of their own because the movie's busy with the North Wind.