“Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” (*** out of four) was a supremely entertaining sequel in which the two adventurers from the last entry (Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard) mount an expedition to rescue the remaining dinosaurs when a dormant volcano threatens their extinction but naturally things don’t go as planned and havoc ensues. By now, the basic plotline of all the “Jurassic” entries are familiar and predictable but this one more than entertains with first-rate visual effects and action scenes and plenty of hair-raising moments along the way. Both Pratt and Howard are superb and Jeff Goldblum makes a brief return as original scientist Ian Malcolm. Some sequences are strikingly similar to Steven Spielberg’s 1993 original.

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