The problem, if it is a problem, is that the park, in both the original and in World, *isnt* a zoo. It’s a theme park.
For zoos, you don’t need to have continuous profit. Zoos get a lot of their operating costs from donations, grant research, sometimes even public funds, in addition to admission and gift shops and concessions. A truly good zoo is like a museum, a research and rehabilitation facility, and an educational space.
A theme park is not. A theme park is all about profit. It’s all about thrill. It’s all about vacation packages and stock holders. And theme parks need to keep ramping things up with new attractions and new stuff to do to keep investment and attendance high.
Jurassic Park is a theme park. In the first movie, it’s not the SCIENCE that makes things go bad, it’s the capitalism; it’s Nedry, discontent with not getting paid enough, manipulating weaknesses in park security, selling the Dino embryos to a rival and the cascade of failures that had been overlooked because none of the people involved in this project had ever run *a zoo.* (it isn’t hard to design an enclosure for a large carnivore that doesn’t immediate fail during a power outage…)
In Jurrasic World, this is the same outlook. It’s not a zoo that has research and education grants keeping it going. It’s a theme park that needs to make a profit. A theme park needs a new roller coaster each year, a new show, a new thrill. You have to keep making your theme park more and more extreme.
That premise makes sense. The fact that World, as a movie, is just so bad, so over the top and nonsensical for the sake of ramping up the excitement and action to all new, even more extreme levels because they think that’s what we as an audience want for the movie to be profitable.
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