Through the years, the dinosaurs have grown bigger, faster, and more intelligent-terrifying with every installment from The Lost World to Jurassic World: Dominion. But dinosaurs have never been one and all.

These massive, disgusting mutant baddies are really about blockbuster filmmaking itself, but relying on them for bigger scares only further dilutes what first made this franchise great.

In the wake of Jurassic Park changing Hollywood forever, Jurassic World Rebirth uses its digitally created dinosaurs as a metaphor for CGI in the modern era.