Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous Brings Satisfying Thrills To Netflix
Written By Matthew Sadowski
The Jurassic Park franchise is nothing without surrogate families and people dying horrific deaths. I was worried that the new TV-PG show Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous might sugarcoat the inherent scariness of a franchise about dangerous dinosaurs on the loose, but I was very pleased to see that it does not. In fact, Camp Cretaceous, set before and during the events of Jurassic World, manages to provide dino action as well as tell a nuanced story worthy of the franchise.
Cretaceous follows a group of 6 very different teens on a preview trip of a summer camp inside Jurassic World. Of course, the dinosaurs escape, and the teens must band together to make it to safety. The series could have easily played it safe and made the campers fast friends, but instead the group continues to push each other’s buttons and exploit their weaknesses even when everything is going well. At one point, the group wonders aloud if they are even real friends. This makes their emotional moments all the more poignant, as we really believe that they are starting to connect with one another.
Within the constraints of staying “kid-friendly,” there is a lingering dread that accompanies the show’s general lightheartedness, hinting at the horrors happening to the not-so-lucky elsewhere on the island. We never see a single dead body but are fully aware of everyone’s vulnerability. When there is a distant explosion, the teens pause, assuring each other it is far away. After the group finds a wrecked area, one remarks that at least the employees escaped. “Not all of them,” another says ominously, looking under an overturned jeep.
The biggest critique I have is that the episode pacing begins to slow down right before the dinosaurs escape in the show’s middle. There is plenty of necessary character building, but after a few whole episodes of the teens sneaking off official tours and nearly getting killed, it starts to be a little unbelievable that no one was kicked off the trip. Then again, this is at the theme park that put the Velociraptor paddock next to a summer camp.
All in all, Camp Cretaceous will be a pleasant surprise for fans of the movies and for fans of other emotional TV-PG cartoons like Avatar: The Last Airbender and Star Wars: The Clone Wars.
Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous
Created by: Zack Stentz
Starring: Paul-Mikél Willaims, Sean Giambrone, Kausar Mohammed, Jenna Ortega, Ryan Potter, Raini Rodriguez
2020
8 Episodes, 24min each
Streaming on: Netflix
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