At the heart of Jurassic Park, the classic book and now heptalogy of films, is an ethical debate. From the first, Dr. Ian Malcolm spells it out with crystal clarity: “God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs.” By Jurassic Park Rebirth, a film that prefers to show rather than tell, such moralizing about genetic engineering is found in the appearance of “D-Rex.” This mutant abomination with a set of human-proportioned arms, a bulbous cranium, and endless appetite for humans lets us very clearly know that tinkering with dino DNA is simply not a good idea.
In other words, this series tells us, even if we could bring back dinosaurs, we shouldn’t.
