Decades worth of movies and television shows have tackled the topic of growing up, helping the young and the young at heart deal with the idea of change to varying degrees. To an extent, that topic has always been an undercurrent of Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, Netflix’s animated spinoff of Universal’s Jurassic World films. In its first two seasons, the series subtly dealt with the evolution and change of both its human cast of characters and its island full of dinosaurs, all while providing a sense of swashbuckling blockbuster energy that was lacking from a lot of media amid the COVID-19 pandemic. In the series’ third season, which arrives on Netflix this weekend, the notion of change becomes much more of a focus — and it strengthens the proceedings in virtually every single way. The third season of Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous is heartfelt, nuanced, and unpredictable in all the right ways, all while weaving in a surprising story about hope, compassion, and being a teenager.
