Jurassic World Rebirth goes back to its roots making it the perfect summer blockbuster that old and young members of the family will enjoy.

If something’s not broken, don’t fix it, and that certainly rings true as Jurassic World Rebirth breathes fresh life into the franchise by going back to basics.

Executive producer Steven Spielberg, who directed the original Jurassic Park, enlisted the help of writer David Koepp, whose credits include Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Jurassic Park, for the new instalment, and let me tell you, it paid off.

The film is set five years after the underwhelming events of Jurassic World Dominion, and we learn that Earth’s environment is more or less inhospitable to the remaining dinosaur population.

The surviving creatures have migrated towards remote, tropical locales along the equator, and the human population is prohibited from venturing there (for good reason, I guess…)

In a similar manner to that of the first Jurassic World film, people are bored. The novelty of these Mesozoic Era creatures has largely worn off, and the general consensus is ‘been there, seen that’.

And rather than being exploited for entertainment such as we saw in its predecessor, palaeontologist Dr Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey), in collaboration with pharmaceutical company ParkerGenix, has discovered dinosaurs’ usefulness in major medical advancements.

Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson), a covert operative, and team leader Duncan Kincaid (Mahershala Ali) come aboard the top-secret mission, which is to locate the three largest remaining prehistoric creatures from land, sea, and air, and extract blood samples from the living animals.

The audience is promised an uber-dangerous, potentially deadly voyage to the forbidden island of Ile Saint-Hubert in the vast Atlantic Ocean, and that’s exactly what we were given.

In a moment reminiscent of the 1975 masterpiece Jaws (seriously, you can tell this is a Spielberg baby), an unsuspecting family encounters the deadly mosasaurus prowling around the open ocean.

By the skin of their teeth – no pun intended – the family escapes, and as luck would have it, link up with the exploration team, and go on to have another encounter with the mosasaurus, this time far more lethal.

The CGI in Jurassic World Rebirth is incredible, and after being let down by Jurassic World Dominion on this front, I say this confidently.

My heart was in my mouth as the team worked together to extract the blood sample from the stealthy mosasaurus as it repeatedly bashed against the side of the boat, leapt up out of the water, and snapped at the heels of the passengers. If I had been watching this film in 4D, I can guarantee my popcorn would’ve gone flying.

The professionals and the unfortunate civilians are split up, and go on to have separate confrontations with a variety of species. And what would a Jurassic World film be without our beloved Rexy, which appears in a sequence from the first novel, which was cut from its film adaptation.

The team endures run-ins with the beautifully majestic giganotosaurs, which remind us that dinosaurs aren’t all razor-sharp teeth and claws, and the terror-inducing quetzalcoatlus (at least for me, who has a debilitating fear of birds).

Jurassic World Rebirth needed to have a bit of bite to it, and so, for the dinosaur fans who had seen all seven of the film’s predecessors, it was only natural that another mutant dinosaur was introduced to the franchise: the Distortus Rex (D-Rex), and this guy was bigger, badder, and uglier than we’ve ever seen.

Jurassic World Rebirth is a refreshing addition to the franchise, which, in recent times, has strayed from its identity. It’s set in the wilderness with the most breathtaking visuals, and we see these impressive creatures roaming in a natural habitat rather than around the concrete jungle their planet has turned into.

A chance was taken on the introduction of an entirely new character base, but the directing, writing, and production team as well as the incredible skill of the cast pulled it out of the bag.

Enough backstory was developed for these characters that made us care and develop empathy for them, but not enough to induce boredom.

Jurassic World Rebirth boasts an awe-inducing combination of fun and thrill that makes it the perfect flick for you to sink your teeth into.

And, as the franchise continues to enjoy success, we’d imagine it won’t go extinct for some time to come.