Chris Pratt is a surefire leading man now, making a movie worth seeing just by being in it. Not Brad Pitt handsome, he nonetheless has a Clint Eastwood squint and comedic timing worthy of a Cary Grant. Sadly, the rest of the cast doesn’t hold a candle to him, unlike in Jurassic World.

• Bryce Dallas Howard is fine as a costar, but lacks the charisma or range to be an A List moviestar.
• Rafe Spall seems too formulaic as a rich kingpin.
• Justice Smith is completely unaffecting as a cliche-ridden nerd.
• Daniella Pineda jumps offscreen as a dino doctor. She’s got charisma.
• James Cromwell employs his well known gravitas as a rich old dreamer.
• Toby Jones is given several lines that clank, ruining his craven bad man role.
• Ted Levine is also more a cliche character than a fearsome one.
• Jeff Goldblum declaims portentously in his trademark odd style.
• BD Wong is back as the dino creator. He’s a great actor, not that you’d know it from this role.
• Geraldine Chaplin is called upon to play severe.
• Isabella Sermon is perfectly lovely as a little girl in a very big house. Word is that she won the role over 2,500 other child actresses. Wow.

Several of Fallen Kingdom’s iconic set pieces are in the trailer, most especially a massive sea lizard about to snatch some surfers. Now that’s a image that burns into the mind’s eye! However, it’s only a throwaway cameo in the movie itself.