When the sequel to "Jurassic Park" was released in cinemas in 1997, journalists immediately speculated whether Steven Spielberg would dare to push a third part and asked in their reviews how the spectacle of the two previous films could be surpassed at all.

Screenwriter David Koepp said at the time: "Either the dinosaurs attack Washington and drink from the Reflecting Pool, or they move to Chicago and appear on 'Oprah'." 25 years later - after three Jurassic Park and two Jurassic World films - already the sixth film narrative in the cinemas, which is based on Michael Crichton's thriller idea that scientists could bring primeval lizards back to life through DNA gimmicks.

The dinosaurs still haven't appeared on Oprah Winfrey's talk show,

Maria Wiesner

Editor in the “Society & Style” department.

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"Jurassic World - A New Age" consistently thinks through what a world would look like in which humans would have to coexist with dinosaurs.

For those who have forgotten what's happened so far (or have avoided seeing the dinosaurs in the cinemas up until now), a reporter, in the style of the American news website Now This, summarizes the backstory: The plan, the newly bred amusement park dinosaurs getting eliminated by a volcanic eruption on an island went wrong.

Instead, they are slowly reclaiming the earth.

Huge aquatic dinosaurs capsize fishing boats, winged lizards attack children, stomping land dinosaurs cause car accidents.

The world continues to face the moral dilemma

whether one should leave a man-made intervention in nature to itself or bear the responsibility for the resulting consequences and therefore have to act.

Meanwhile, the genetic research company Biosyn has secured worldwide fishing rights and set up a protected area in the Dolomites.

Researcher Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) doubts that this company is only charitable when she finds mutant locusts in the American Midwest that strangely leave the Biosyn seeds untouched.

This short political interjection tries to give the story some depth, but what Colin Trevorrow otherwise stages here in 147 minutes is more like the concert of a legendary rock band that has pulled itself together to tour one last time.

In addition to Dern, he also brought Jeff Goldblum (as a quick-witted chaos theorist) and Sam Neill (as a clumsy paleontologist) back on board from the old Jurassic Park crew coach) and Bryce Dallas Howard (as a tough environmental activist) meet in the Dolomite Reserve.

And because such a rock band needs to play the greatest hits again, Trevorrow garnishes the film with references and re-enactments of iconic scenes - a Tyrannosaurus Rex slinking past a car window, its mouth gnawing, Dern flirting with Goldblum and Neill about scientific theories, someone whispering while Sight of a hungry dinosaur "Don't move" - ​​and he samples some new ideas with other genres: In a world where dinosaurs live, what would the work of secret agents be like?

They would stop the thriving black market.

In a sequence worthy of a Bond film, Chris Pratt gives himself a chase through the narrow streets of Valletta on the sidelines of a CIA operation.

Pursued by two giant lizards trained to kill, he tries to catch up with a plane taking off on his motorbike.

Yes, it makes no sense at all, but it's great fun.

After all, "Jurassic Park" was already staged as a clear blockbuster, regardless of ecology or chaos, and this tradition shouldn't die out either.