How to train your dinosaur

“These people, they never learn”.

This line, spoken by an exasperated minor character as a genetically engineered super-dinosaur breaks out of its enclosure and all hell breaks loose, fairly well sums up the plot of Jurassic World.

Add “these dinosaurs, they do learn,” and you have it in a nutshell.

However, after earning $US1.6 billion at the box office, it is pretty obvious that Steven Spielberg and his team, including director Colin Trevorrow and screenwriters Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver and Derek Connolly learnt from the underwhelming Jurassic Park III and used the franchise’s 14-year hiatus to give the public exactly what they want – a massively entertaining, if slightly silly movie with some incredible dinosaur action.

It’s 22 years after the failure of the first Jurassic Park and 18 years after the failure of Jurassic Park San Diego, both due to unfortunate mishaps involving people being eaten. Isla Nubar, the site of the original Jurassic Park, is now home to a thriving dinosaur theme park.

Visitors to the park can enjoy a variety of attractions, like taking a ride on a baby triceratops in the dinosaur petting zoo, visiting the pteranodon aviary, or driving a gyrosphere (a cross between a Segway and a zorb) among herds of apatasauruses and parasaurolophuses (and other words my three...