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After what has seemed like forever, we now know the official rating of Jurassic World: Rebirth, and like any good sequel, it is in the same ballpark. Directed by Gareth Edwards, and set five years after the events of Jurassic World: Dominion, Rebirth has a notably different tone, but still incorporates a storied tradition that has lived in the franchise for more than a generation.
Since Steven Spielberg's 1993 Jurassic Park, every film in the franchise has been rated PG-13, successfully entrenching the genre of thrilling dinosaur cinema while maintaining accessibility to broad audiences. The new film, Rebirth, also has a PG-13 rating for "intense sequences of violence/action, bloody images, some suggestive references, language, and a drug reference."
While the rating itself is not new, the reasoning shows a tonal development, as bloody images and suggestive references indicate a slightly more edgy offering than the previous films. For a long-lived franchise like Jurassic, it represents a willingness to go as far as the PG-13 limitations will allow while remaining true to its core audience. The Jurassic franchise has beautifully walked that line of horror, science fiction, and family blockbuster entertainment like few other franchises have done over multiple generations.
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Jurassic World: Rebirth follows Scarlett Johansson as Zora Bennett, a committed scientist leading a dangerous mission to retrieve valuable DNA from a dinosaur-overrun area, participating with Jonathan Bailey, Rupert Friend, and Mahershala Ali as a within-the-world ensemble dealing with a shared internal sense of conflict as well as an external threat of prehistoric creatures.
With Edwards directing Rebirth from a screenplay by David Koepp, the original Jurassic Park screenwriter, the film at best will take a basic back-to-basics approach grounded more in wonder, survival, and moral responsibility of gene manipulation, but as noted in the MPA rating notes the film appears to lean more into the horror and agony themes than other films, in comparison at least to the too bloated and perplexed Jurassic World: Dominion.
Whatever the new slight tonal shift emerges, for a franchise that has become terribly reviewed lately, it may be a welcomed tonal shift. Even if the new inclusion of at least slightly more mature content on Jurassic World: Rebirth may only hint at an evolved version of Jurassic Park within a previously clearly defined cultural phenomenon.
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Fans should expect all the best elements of the original films: awe-inspiring spectacles, edge-of-the-seat tension, and respect for the horrors of uncontrolled ambition. Combined with the added edge from its new content warnings, we have reason to believe this will be the bold reset the franchise has been waiting for.
Jurassic World: Rebirth is set to release in theaters on July 2, 2025.
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