Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum reunite in the same Jurassic movie for the first time since the original 1993 Jurassic Park. It’s a warmly performed but wan Jurassic Park legacy sequel, with older scientists visiting yet another dinosaur sanctuary and research facility that’s less controlled and less altruistic than it looks. Essentially, it’s two unwieldy movies fused together. Jurassic World Dominion is already the longest Jurassic movie by close to 20 minutes, since it assumes the responsibility of both wrapping up the Jurassic World trilogy and serving as a reunion/postscript for the first three Jurassic Park movies. Dominion, however, received a more mixed reaction from both critics and audiences: It’s both the worst-reviewed Jurassic movie on Rotten Tomatoes and the lowest-grossing of the Jurassic World trilogy in the United States. The Spider-Man sequel gets some extra character comedy in its longer version, but it was also a widely beloved movie a longer version is really just a victory lap. It certainly has more potential fan mandate than a longer No Way Home. It’s fitting for Jurassic World Dominion’s kitchen-sink quality that the newly bulked-up version functions as both. So many extended editions can be categorized as an attempted repair job or a cash grab. 2021’s gigantic hit Spider-Man: No Way Home is back in theaters with 11 minutes of new footage and a subtitle, “The More Fun Stuff Version.” And an extended version of Jurassic World Dominion with 14 extra minutes of footage is available for streaming on Peacock, for digital rental, and on Blu-ray. Two particularly high-profile expansions are now available. So it makes sense that precious billion-dollar hits are being recycled, with a spate of extended editions that recall the DVD boom of the 2000s. Thanks to COVID-related delays in production and visual effects work, Hollywood’s blockbuster-release pipeline has slowed down considerably.

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