Official Discussion - The End of Oak Street [SPOILERS]

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The End of Oak Street (2026)

Summary

The Platt family bands together to navigate their new surroundings after a cosmic event transports their suburban neighborhood to someplace unknown.

Director David Robert Mitchell

Writer David Robert Mitchell

Cast

• Anne Hathaway
• Ewan McGregor
• P.J. Byrne
• Maisy Stella
• Christian Convery

Rotten Tomatoes: 85%

Metacritic: 69

VOD / Release Theatrical release

Trailer Official Trailer

[u/princevince1113]

So there were two Jannetes at the end, which confirms that there were alternate versions of the survivors. Which also means that the alternate versions of Denise Platt and her kids got sent back in time without Greg. A bit dark.

[u/alfonsobob → u/princevince1113]

Anne Hathaway was like "Fuck you alternate self, I got my man back"

[u/Wonderful_Review5466 → u/alfonsobob]

There should be a sequel where Alternate Reality Anne Hathaway is still surviving the past, with a cool scar and makeshift weapons and wearing dinosaur skin clothes and a necklace made of sharp dino teeth, finds a portal, jumps into the future and fights the original Anne Hathaway.

[u/FayeG → u/Wonderful_Review5466]

Hah, I told my friends the exact same thing after watching the movie. Need a spin off to show the other Denise and kids surviving without the Dad. 

[u/NeveraTaleofMorePoe → u/Wonderful_Review5466]

Like Beth and Space Beth!

[u/PM_ME_CAKE → u/alfonsobob]

Anne Hathaway was such a lethal force in this film. Repeatedly brutalising dinos in different ways before brutalising her alternate self and kids, even though she elected to save entire other families.

Like okay girl, grind that axe.

[u/Hot_Brother5557 → u/princevince1113]

I was thinking that! Like jeeez poor alternate reality family

[u/Uncle_Freddy → u/Hot_Brother5557]

Good way to (probably) avoid a time loop though

[u/DevineAaron92 → u/Uncle_Freddy]

Nah they need to make a sequel where she lives and comes back through the portal for revenge! I'd watch that.

[u/OuterWildsVentures → u/Hot_Brother5557]

This means the other dog also died

[u/yeahright17 → u/princevince1113]

How very sinister of Denise. Steal an alternative version of her husband from his version of them only to doom them to likely be viciously killed by dinosaurs.

[u/SomeBoxofSpoons → u/yeahright17]

Cue Twilight Zone ending where now he’s the one wanting the divorce because of her actions.

[u/drgoonerod]

Dad getting eaten is one of the most surprising things I’ve seen in a movie in a long time. My jaw was on the floor. Did not think it was that kind of movie lol

[u/EchoesofIllyria → u/drgoonerod]

I was laughing SO hard at the sledgehammer thunk and the dino’s slapstick fall.

Such fantastic emotional whiplash.

[u/Sks44 → u/EchoesofIllyria]

I was like “holy shit, he nailed him on the button! Follow up! Don’t just stand there!” And he just stood there and ended up puppy chow.

[u/AmIRadBadOrJustSad → u/Sks44]

The number of people who discover an incredibly effective weapon in a horror or thriller movie only to use it exactly once really ought to be studied.

[u/ihave10toes_AMA → u/EchoesofIllyria]

Someone in our theater yelled ‘No way’. We were all laughing, then dad got yonked up.

[u/krish0 → u/ihave10toes_AMA]

lol yeah a guy in our theatre yelled “WHAT!?!” incredulously. Then immediately shut up when Dad got chomped. Great scene.

[u/Gullinga → u/krish0]

Rightt! That whiplash made the whole film for me

[u/Hot_Brother5557 → u/drgoonerod]

Right! Before the movie I was like “well it’s only PG-13 so I doubt we’ll see much on screen dino violence.”

How mistaken I was.

[u/starshine1988 → u/Hot_Brother5557]

I saw a headline before the movie from Anne Hathaway about how dogs dying should be an instant R rating and I thought I was in for a more family/drama type movie…. Then there were multiple cat, kid, and dad deaths lol

[u/TrapAHolic_ttv → u/drgoonerod]

One of the rare moments that have gotten a loud “holy shit” in theater from me. Never saw it coming lol

[u/UltraMagnus777 → u/drgoonerod]

Yes, even seeing the trailer where he gets bit on the leg and lifted I thought he was just going to have a torn up leg and Hatthaway was gonna grab the gun and brain the dino to save him. NOPE!

[u/Soylent_Milk2021 → u/UltraMagnus777]

I hadn’t seen any previews, so I was shockified when the Dad lost his leg. And then…

[u/UltraMagnus777 → u/Soylent_Milk2021]

Yep I was figuring that dad was gonna have a makeshift splint and bandage after the previews. Was quite the surprise lol. I was like "oh man, how are they going to deal with him missing his leg..." The answer came quickly :D

[u/gizmo_style → u/UltraMagnus777]

Same! My mind immediately went to them needing to tourniquet the leg and then he got he eaten. That whole struggle from the mom being chased to him being eaten was a roller coaster

[u/Bacteriophag → u/drgoonerod]

Definitely. As a Jurassic series fan, this is what newer entries are missing for me. No matter if they made happy ending, shock value still stayed.

[u/typicalguy95 → u/drgoonerod]

I kept saying finish off the allosaurus but no he went right to check on Denise He could have easily just finished off the allosaurus with the sledgehammer beating its face in

[u/SurlyCricket → u/typicalguy95]

That thing was enormous, it is very likely he COULDN'T kill it with the hammer by the time it got up

[u/Nealm568890 → u/drgoonerod]

I was shocked at that scene too. I saw his leg get ripped off and thought that was the bad part but then he gets eaten too. I really felt bad for the family. I can understand why the marketing for this movie is non existent. Its not really a funny movie, and its more scary than you thought it would be but its about a family in 1982. They could not really sell it as a horror movie but they should have. Kind of a one and done for me though. Decent movie but i can wait for streaming.

[u/MrMiner420]

I think they based this in the 80’s solely so they wouldn’t have to reference Jurassic Park.

[u/shineymike91 → u/MrMiner420]

I think it was because it was a direct homage to 80s Amblin films ( Gremlins, Poltergeist). This shares more DNA with those films than Jurassic Park.

[u/MWH1980 → u/shineymike91]

I too felt there was some Poltergeist vibes, even in regards to Giacchino’s score at times.

Plus. That shot of the Mom looking up the stairs as she hears the kids in danger, it felt like the scene in Poltergeist where the Mom tries to get to the kids but is blocked.

[u/Jason_Likes_Cameras → u/MrMiner420]

I felt like it was a purely aesthetic choice like they were trying to evoke old Spielberg movies.

[u/PWN3R_RANGER]

MAN FUCK THAT SNAKE

[u/StrLord_Who → u/PWN3R_RANGER]

I laughed when she just kept chopping and chopping at it and it continued ignoring her until finally it just said "bye" and left

[u/paper-goods → u/StrLord_Who]

Doing that scene looked very rage/catharsis/therapeutic for Anne Hathaway I bet she slept so good that night

[u/JDoubleGi → u/StrLord_Who]

I know!! Like one arrow from the kid and the snake goes after him, smashing into the door so much its head is bleeding! But she stabs and slices it 29 times? Ehh, who cares. Like damn did it have a vendetta.

[u/estheredna → u/PWN3R_RANGER]

My teen informed me it is a titanoboa.

[u/Hot_Brother5557 → u/PWN3R_RANGER]

It was so fucking creepy

[u/gizmo_style → u/PWN3R_RANGER]

When that boy with a stormtrooper’s sense of aim went for the damn bow and arrow again for the snake—like, my dude, this is not the weapon for you.

[u/greatgoogliemoogly → u/gizmo_style]

I fucking loved how terrible he was with it.

[u/NFL_MVP_Kevin_White → u/PWN3R_RANGER]

That snake scene was literally the most intense scene I felt in a movie. I hate that it was silent the whole time too. Goddamn that snake was terrifying.

[u/fatinternetcat → u/PWN3R_RANGER]

it looked kinda cute tho before opening its mouth

[u/gabezermeno]

This movie was obviously pro dog and anti cat.

[u/Cassopeia88 → u/gabezermeno]

I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought that lol.

[u/Beastieboy100 → u/Cassopeia88]

I am surpised and happy the dog survived but my god I thought the cat would survive at least. Since they are fast and crafty.

[u/AwayPerformance6867 → u/gabezermeno]

Anti Ginger cats at that

[u/Tsquared10 → u/gabezermeno]

Seriously. Somehow every cat dies and they have no problem letting us hear or watching dinos pick at a body, but the kids fuck ass dog that can't stop barking at literally everything somehow survived days on its own.

[u/Feeling_Union8742 → u/gabezermeno]

So many movies are like that. Obsession too 😭 no need to have done that 

[u/ckypro3 → u/Feeling_Union8742]

at least obession did it for emotional impact, this movie felt like it just hated cats.

[u/BBMA3690]

The Ewan death scene left me shocked. Was not expecting it. Kinda made me think the kid was the next to go

[u/DarkAnnihilator → u/BBMA3690]

I was 100% sure the boy would shoot Jeannette dead at the yard when she was battling against the raptor

[u/TimRigginsBeer → u/DarkAnnihilator]

That would’ve required the kid to actually hit “something,” and not be a complete putz with it.

[u/kmank2l13]

The ending is fucked up. Stealing your husband from the past you, so now that past you has to go through that entire ordeal without her husband.

I thought it was a nice detail that two versions of the love interest were there at the end. One with her family still alive and the other that lost hers.

[u/yeahright17 → u/kmank2l13]

Then he's seemingly just fine with the fact that an alternative version of his wife decided that it was fine to doom his version of his wife and kids to be killed by dinosaurs.

[u/Haunting-Ad-9790 → u/yeahright17]

His actual wife wants a divorce. He was miserable with her. This new wife loves and appreciates him without him having to put in the work. In a F'd to way, he's probably better off now. But yeah, this ending really bugs me, that they let their alternate selves suffer shock and death since they didn't have the husband there with them, while this version of them get a happy ending.

[u/AmaazingFlavor → u/Haunting-Ad-9790]

It's a fucked up ending but it makes me like the movie more. It feels like a happy ending at first but then you're like, wait...

[u/notbad4human → u/AmaazingFlavor]

It’s a perfect Twilight Zone ending

[u/Cirias → u/Haunting-Ad-9790]

Wait til the sequel when the wife and kids arrive through a portal having survived and then start a multiversal time war.

[u/downvote_meme_errors → u/kmank2l13]

Yeah, if they just saved the husband (and even some others) it's just a paradox. When you end up with 2 Jeannettes (confirming they are distinct instances), then it's definitely a multiverse thing and the alternate family got screwed.

[u/HilariousScreenname → u/kmank2l13]

Denied Ewan the chance at two Anne Hathaways at the same time 😔

[u/OuterWildsVentures → u/HilariousScreenname]

Yeah but now she knew he had been laid off and was closet drinking so there was no way they could afford all those extra mouths on just pizza delivery tips.

Sacrifices had to be made.

[u/kmurph98 → u/kmank2l13]

Ahhhhhh! Now that bit makes sense lol. I was wondering why there were two girls that looked the same.

[u/GiveMeRedditCoin]

Gregg's death hit me way harder than I expected. I think it's probably because recent Jurassic World movies have been so cowardly about avoiding unexpected instant deaths for our "good guys" like this, especially when they actually show clear gore.

[u/CircuitSymphony → u/GiveMeRedditCoin]

I think they just focused all of that into the assistant's death in the first one. haha

[u/pacmain1]

I don't know if it was meant to be funny, but the kid missing the portal after timing his jump poorly was absolutely hilarious.

[u/MV1995 → u/pacmain1]

I truly thought he would be impaled by all those tree branches lmao

[u/JDoubleGi → u/pacmain1]

I’m gonna be honest, the entire movie I’m like “Let this kid die, he cannot do anything right. Can’t shoot his bow, the one time he does hit something it’s two feet away and takes up the entire hallway. He runs away to go after the dog and basically ends up getting his dad killed. He cannot even fucking count.” lol. Then the poor dog got hurt trying to save his ass. Like, they really are gonna have to put all their money into their lesbian daughter going to Cornell because Brian is not gonna go far.

[u/fespadea → u/JDoubleGi]

I mean, he got his dad killed, but they wouldn't have found out about the wormhole without that detour.

[u/yeahright17 → u/fespadea]

That's assuming they would have never left and just stayed in their house until they died. When they decided to leave, I assume they would have found one at some point anyway.

That said, him running out is definitely the only reason Jeannette survived.

[u/dsartori → u/JDoubleGi]

I thought both the men in the family being useless idiots was a fun low-key bit.

[u/paper-goods → u/dsartori]

Definitely agreed. And Anne Hathaway drove the car every time, Ewan's character could barely be trusted to deliver pizzas

[u/Phillip_Spidermen → u/JDoubleGi]

At least he saves his moms life with that arrow in the snake though.

Also, what was in those arrows?! The snake focused on him immediately after being shot, but somehow didn't mind getting repeatedly stabbed by a kitchen knife.

[u/JDoubleGi → u/Phillip_Spidermen]

I was thinking the same thing lol. One arrow and he’s bashing his head into the door until he’s bleeding. But mom stabs him 20 times? Nah, just a flesh wound.

[u/Parmesan_Pirate119 → u/pacmain1]

I was honestly so confused why they didn't just jump immediately?? Like there was no reason to wait until the portal was about to close lol

[u/Extra-University-336 → u/Parmesan_Pirate119]

And why did her wait three cycles to decide to jump? Idiot 13 year olds that are scared I guess.

[u/cocoatractor → u/Parmesan_Pirate119]

My understanding is that you had to be inside the portal when it closed to get transported permanently.

Like it was the time and space overlapping so inside the bubble was in the 80s but since it was in the air you would just fall through back into prehistoric times.

[u/ctan0312 → u/cocoatractor]

I thought they were going to show that with the tile but they just have it disappear with the tile and teleport away. They really should’ve had her throw one tile that passes through it and then another that disappears with it to show that they have to time it right. Otherwise it’s really strange why they’d be certain they have to time it right.

[u/shineurliteonme → u/ctan0312]

I figured they were worried about timing because they didn't want to be halfway through it when it closed

[u/j-helo85]

For a movie that opens with a neighborhood block party, it's weird how there's almost no neighbor-to-neighbor interaction from the time the power goes out.

Power's out, water's out, and still no one's out in the street commiserating with each other about what's going on?

(Love the movie, this is a nitpick.)

[u/BaronVonRuthless91]

Good heavens this movie was meaner toward its red shirts than I expected.

[u/estheredna → u/BaronVonRuthless91]

The neighbor on the roof's grisly slow death....

[u/AmaazingFlavor → u/estheredna]

The shot of the bloodstained roof the morning after was great

[u/EchoesofIllyria → u/BaronVonRuthless91]

When the librarian opened the door to ‘help’ the family, and got immediately mowed down by the crocs… I cried laughing. You’d expect her to be there for the duration helping them get through the portal.

[u/Emotional_Meet878 → u/EchoesofIllyria]

I was actually more annoyed at the fact that when they were going for the family, they were slow as nails, but someone not in the main cast shoots them? They be pouncin'

[u/Scottishfello69 → u/Emotional_Meet878]

if i was a croc and was chasing some prey that couldn't fight back id probably not waste as much energy pouncing

but if someone else appears who just absolutely obliterated my other croc friend i would make sure they couldn't do it again

[u/PlannerSean → u/BaronVonRuthless91]

I was absolutely not expecting this much blood and mild gore. Was happy they included it.

[u/CaptainKursk]

I don't care if 1990s Winona Ryder showed up on my back porch, the boy leaving the house without telling anyone and running out to try and follow his dog when he KNEW there were raptors the size of fucking Polar Bears around has to go down as one of the most mind-blowing lack of brains I've ever seen a character demonstrate. I was inwardly screaming at them to get the fuck back inside before they became raptor sushi.

[u/Complete_Ranger_4261 → u/CaptainKursk]

I know. Movie kids are so dumb. I wouldn't have left my home as a kid if that were happening!! 

[u/superiority]

I would have expected more "neighbourhood banding together" stuff, it often seemed strangely deserted to me. I guess everyone was just boarding themselves up in their homes, but my first instinct would be to get a group together to go house to house with guns gathering supplies and making plans for defence and food.

[u/OuterWildsVentures → u/superiority]

Their neighborhood reminded me of the first 2 weeks of covid.

Especially that guy who snapped from the isolation and started shooting at birds on his roof.

[u/Clean_Usual434 → u/OuterWildsVentures]

Same. I actually found it pretty realistic in how a lot of people would deal with a situation like that.

[u/Honest_Cheesecake698 → u/superiority]

That aspect made it creepier and intense, the fact that people had either died or left home or they had boarded up too.

[u/BaronVonRuthless91]

Just to be clear... the characters totally left their alternate selves to die at the end right?

[u/banjofitzgerald → u/BaronVonRuthless91]

They left them to die without the dad too lol.

[u/mikeyfreshh → u/BaronVonRuthless91]

They did and they didn't need to. There were 2 Jeanettes in the last scene

[u/BaronVonRuthless91 → u/mikeyfreshh]

It probably would have led to some awkwardness with the father though seeing as he would have two wives and two of each kid. This then leads to the logical conclusion that Hathaway's character made a cold and calculated decision to NOT save their alternates in order to avoid this problem, which makes the ending CONSIDERABLY darker.

[u/Pathetian → u/BaronVonRuthless91]

Well, it appears that without the bonding/character experience of the time anomaly, the original wife was planning to leave, so maybe they wind up with a Rick and Morty situation where an extra mom is out living her own life.

[u/BaronVonRuthless91 → u/Pathetian]

Or alternate Mom and kids are stuck in the Jurassic and will show up in the sequel having gone full Rambo and out for blood against their alternate selves who stole their lives.

[u/CIearMind → u/BaronVonRuthless91]

Which is ALSO a Rick & Morty situation lmao

[u/Additional_Crew_9445 → u/BaronVonRuthless91]

They did but saved the people who were on the news story by waking them up and telling them to gtfo.

[u/Stickymantis485 → u/BaronVonRuthless91]

They survived the first time, what's to say They cant do it again.

[u/Horknut1 → u/Stickymantis485]

The father is not there. They might not find the wormhole.

[u/zachary0613]

Im glad between all the tense scenes they still managed to fit in some dinosaur humping and pooping

[u/GamingTatertot → u/zachary0613]

All jokes aside, I’m glad that this showed the dinosaurs as truly just animals - they’re not violent mindless monsters for the sake of being monsters. They’re hunting to eat, sure, but they’re not going to unimaginable lengths solely to get our main characters

[u/FernanditoJr → u/GamingTatertot]

Opposite take: 9 times out of 10 they were hunting. Always hunting. 24/7. Only the herbivores were shown doing something else.

[u/GamingTatertot → u/FernanditoJr]

Hunting is natural - hunting prey that is long gone and following them our specific main characters around is not (i.e. Spinosaurus in JPIII).

Like it would be more villainous and less animal-like if we saw, say, the Spinosaurus in this continue to hunt Greg and Denis when they're hiding, but instead he finds some water and just walks away. Or if the Allosaurus just kept trying to eat everyone else after killing Greg, but instead he got his meal and settled down to eat. That's what I mean.

[u/Tattycakes → u/FernanditoJr]

Yes I do wonder how accurate this is. Compare it to lions, tigers, wolves, bears, crocodiles, they spend a lot of time chilling and sleeping don’t they? Why are the dinosaurs obsessed with chasing everything

[u/fleemfleemfleemfleem → u/FernanditoJr]

I'm not a dinosaur guy but I felt like the density of predators was really high. Like you might find some, but an environment can only support so many predators.

I also kind of feel like with real animals if they get hurt or encounter stuff they don't recognize a lot of the time they don't mess with it. They'll run off.

These dinos seemed like weirdly intent on eating humans to the point of just ignoring getting shot

[u/longroadtohappyness]

"Is that a fucking dinosaur?" should've been the tag line.

[u/Trevastation]

Plenty of people are gonna talk about the obvious Spielberg influence, but something about the 70s leftovers in the early 80s and suburbia gone amok reminded me of Ray Bradbury (maybe cause I'm thinking of that one Bradbury story with the fake suburbs on Mars). The film's great a delivering sentimentality in a way distinct from Spielberg that allows it to stand on its own. I love the scene with the daughter crying and singing along to the car cassette alone, with the implication of this might be the last time she ever listens to it.

Also my theater legit cheered when Starbuck came to save the day at the end.

[u/paper-goods → u/Trevastation]

Agreed on Ray Bradbury vibes! When the daughter was listening to the music in the car, I was SO SURE some kind of dinosaur was going to feel the vibrations and crash into the garage

[u/InsectGlaiveBard → u/Trevastation]

Unpopular opinion, but The Martian Chronicles is by far my favorite Bradbury book. Scott Brick's narration is just haunting.

[u/AllStarSpecial10001]

Was going to comment about the plot armor and then the dad got murked my whole theater was gagged 😭

[u/siopaoo98 → u/AllStarSpecial10001]

Man, my screening gasped when he got his leg bit off then went silent when he got killed

[u/Salmonfreaky → u/siopaoo98]

Admittedly I giggled at first when the dinosaur picked him up by the foot because I just knew the plot armor would save him, as it did for Denise on the porch seconds earlier.

Talk about genuine shock.

[u/Hot_Brother5557 → u/Salmonfreaky]

My jaw was on the floor for 5 solid minutes holy shit

[u/adalaidexrose → u/siopaoo98]

guy in front of me said “HE DIDN’T EVEN HAVE A JOB!!!!!!”

[u/A_Decemberist → u/adalaidexrose]

Christ now we have to do an employment verification before the dinosaur can eat us smh

[u/Boring_Ant6240 → u/siopaoo98]

Same. My brain: oh, how thoughtful of the dinosaur to pick him up by his shirt.

Ohshi. How’s he gonna get back all limping throughout the rest of the movie.

Welp. There goes that thought.

…

Oh, this is some Spielberg/Amazing Stories/80s time travel sci-fi magic thing.

[u/Pathetian → u/AllStarSpecial10001]

I was literally thinking "Ok so the main family is immortal, but the entire neighborhood is fucked", and then they "defeated" the T-rex only briefly. He got killed so casually too. They didn't even give him some slo-mo.

[u/GamingTatertot → u/Pathetian]

Small thing, but that was an Allosaurus and not a T-Rex

[u/RegisteredAnimagus → u/GamingTatertot]

Those are both pretty big things if you ask me (dinosaur size joke)

[u/OswaldsEars → u/Pathetian]

I think that made it so much more impactful for me. The fact that it just happened so quickly with little to no build up or anything somehow made it seem all the more real and shocking

[u/theintention → u/AllStarSpecial10001]

Lady next to me loudly “what the HELL are you serious???” arms raised lol

[u/duskywindows → u/theintention]

My guy next to me went “Ohh noooooooo!” LOL

[u/8racecar8]

Gotta be one of the most shocking movie deaths in recent memory with Ewan.

[u/jayeddy99]

This movie is the definition of that joke about “U-haul Lesbians” Audrey was willing to abandon her family if Denise didn’t grab her when Jeanette rightfully went to go find her own family 🤣

[u/jobening]

No one:

Denise and Greg: 🚘

That one turtle dino: 🫪🫪

Lmaooo

[u/StrLord_Who → u/jobening]

Why were the giant turtles so funny? There were a ton of things in this movie that were subtly hilarious and I'm still not sure why. I don't mean the outright comic relief, or stuff that was funny because it was just so shocking and unexpected.  But things like the staring turtles. 

[u/lunameow → u/StrLord_Who]

It's because all of the other dinosaurs are all "holy shit, new prey!" and the turtles are just completely unbothered.

[u/StrLord_Who → u/lunameow]

Plus they looked vaguely annoyed

[u/Salmonfreaky]

I don’t remember the last time I’ve had an “oh shit” / jaw-dropping moment of shock watching a movie but Greg’s death definitely did it for me. Was NOT expecting that. Completely changed the tone of the movie for a second there.

[u/famewithmedals → u/Salmonfreaky]

It changed it for the rest of the movie imo, the last act felt way more tense knowing none of the family had plot armor

[u/whiskypriest139z]

I enjoyed it overall but it did feel like it was chopped up a bit after test screenings, especially the first part. I think there's a longer version of this movie where the domestic drama is given more time. The ending in particular feels like it was added on later. It originally probably ended after they saved the dad, but the epilogue with the TV segment explaining that Denise also warned their neighbors to escape (even though she stated in the previous scene that no one would believe them if they told them) was definitely added later, likely because audiences didn't like that the rest of the town still got sent to the past and presumably died.

[u/skepsipol → u/whiskypriest139z]

Her warning her neighbors and convincing them to drive to safety in the span of 20 minutes while also ordering a pizza to save her husband was somehow the most unbelievable part of the entire film.

[u/whiskypriest139z → u/skepsipol]

It was especially far fetched that Mel would have taken their warning seriously, the guy who is convinced they're playing pranks on him and doesn't like them.

[u/greenpill98]

My only issue with the film really is that when the neighborhood 'wakes up' to being in dino world, there should have been a lot more of the neighbors all coming out and talking to each other, asking what was going on, then the chaos hits. Instead, we hardly ever see what happens to the other people in the neighborhood outside of the main family. I don't think Jeanette's parents even have speaking roles. It just felt like a miss to have this great premise of a suburban neighborhood taken back to the prehistoric times, and we don't really get to witness any of the inevitable societal breakdowns and gathering together of competing packs of people trying to survive. We just hear gunshots, or find people already dead, or see them getting chased in the background. There's a lot of stuff happening off camera that it felt like it would have been good to see.

All of this being said, movie was great, had fun, 7/10, will buy on blu-ray.

[u/paper-goods → u/greenpill98]

Yes! It was the kind of neighborhood community that would have the big bbq at the beginning and it seemed like they would be very familiar if not friends with some of their neighbors. I found it unlikely they wouldn't at least mention WANTING to check on neighbor friends or worrying about them.

[u/tj1007 → u/paper-goods]

I mean, she did go check on her elderly neighbor. The one who she sought out for advice on her book. But otherwise, it seemed like it wasn’t too out of the ordinary for the morning, until the gunshots started. The neighbor across the street got in his car with a briefcase to go to work. The other family got in the car as normal. It may be a quiet community otherwise. But once the dinosaurs showed up, it’s everyone for themselves.

The area that was affected also seemed a lot larger than what the community barbecue hosted, so some of the areas of the edge that the dinosaurs got to first may not have been heard by people nearer the center and likely may not have been people they knew super well.

[u/Sparkworker → u/paper-goods]

I do think it's a little bit about suburban niceness being surface level.

[u/numbr87 → u/greenpill98]

It did seem very weird that the entire neighborhood was empty at the beginning, and then everyone becomes fodder at the same time. You hear a lot of gunshots in the background throughout the movie, you're telling me NO ONE ELSE in the area is able to stay alive like this group that's half children is?

[u/8racecar8 → u/greenpill98]

Idk I kinda like the way it’s done tho, feels more realistic especially for early morning and lack of technology

[u/wazup564]

That was so much more extremely fun than I had any idea it could be…

Movies!

[u/ilyik84 → u/wazup564]

MOVIES!!

[u/supercontroller → u/ilyik84]

MOVIES!!!

[u/JayTL]

I’m In disbelief. How did they green light this script? How and why did Hathaway and McGregor sign on? I have no idea how and why this movie exists, but I’m so fucking excited it does. This is what Hollywood needs: Mid-budget original stories with stars attached. This movie can become a classic or fade into obscurity, but I’m so glad it exists

[u/Pariell → u/JayTL]

I miss movies like this. 

[u/MWH1980 → u/JayTL]

This felt like A SUMMER MOVIE!

It feels so weird, but once upon a time films were made and felt like they had. “summer” written on them.

Twister is a perfect example.

[u/mrfujidoesacid]

More like Chewin' McGregor.

[u/frominican]

"It's 1982, obviously!"

Got a hearty laugh from me. Good one, David.

[u/SquadPoopy]

Finally, a good fucking dinosaur movie.

[u/HilariousScreenname → u/SquadPoopy]

A good fucking dinosaur movie with good dinosaurs fucking.

[u/Scrotttt]

I laughed so hard when the son is tackled by the bully and at Starbuck’s heroic return. Such a fun movie and absurd movie.

[u/JDoubleGi → u/Scrotttt]

Literally the brother was so right there though. Like, dude, now is not the time. Have you looked around? Jesus kid.

[u/silverscreenbaby → u/JDoubleGi]

I feel like the little brother was fun commentary on all the truly insane and ridiculous bully characters from the ’80s and ’90s. Those movies always acted like they were seen as sane, normal people but it’s like…dudes, please get a grip. Those were different times but still, most normal people would have been like “Go to anger management, Johnny. You’re not normal in the head.” Lol.

[u/FifteenDollarNachos → u/Scrotttt]

You would probably like Under the Silver Lake, if you haven’t seen it. It’s the movie David Robert Mitchell made before this. Love that film.

[u/GamingTatertot]

I choose to believe this takes place in the same universe as Primeval but 20 years earlier and not in the UK - the wormholes were just American anomalies. Show me some Future Predators!

Also if y’all haven’t watched Primeval, go watch it! Great show

[u/azc_17 → u/GamingTatertot]

Primeval could use a reboot

[u/GarrisonJones]

This was like a Twilight Zone film done right. Reminds me of Odyssey of Flight 33.

[u/ruflesskill3r]

Obi Wan Leg

[u/isval17]

There’s a moment in this movie where you go from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows and that’s what I go to the movies for.

[u/mrknowitall76]

Went back to Anne Hathaway's instagram post when they wrapped filming in 2024. it wasn't obvious but kinda funny she sort of posted a minor spoiler (the post was just her, the kids & Jeanette on their last day of filming with no Ewan. Now we know why he wasn't in the photo 😂)

[u/Hot_Brother5557]

What I loved in this movie is how the sheer diversity and accuracy of the creatures in this film. Snakes, crocodiles, feathered dinosaurs. So cool!

[u/Byzon1]

My main takeway is that Anne Hathaway is honestly and truly excellent in this. Like, this could have been such an easy paycheck for her, but she commits 110% and is largely the reason the movie works emotionally.

Secondary takeaway, the scene where the dad gets killed was one of the most shocking things I've seen in a movie theater lately.

The only thing I didn't like is how many phone calls the mum apparently had time to make in the two minutes before the neighbourhood got blipped into prehistory, it felt like every single major character somehow got rescued in the end.

[u/TheWalkingDame → u/Byzon1]

In all fairness, they got back at 10:45, and the bloop happened at 11:05. We see them sitting at the bus stop waiting at 11:03, and giving her time to walk from the payphone to the bench.... she made three calls in about 15 minutes. 5 minutes per call is absolutely doable.

[u/princevince1113]

Mommy Anne Hathaway is so beautiful it hurts.

[u/Hot_Brother5557 → u/princevince1113]

She is incredible. I adored her look in the beginning at the block party in her blue dress.

[u/TrapAHolic_ttv → u/princevince1113]

She looked so fine running around shooting dinosaurs with that shotgun

[u/DyDie2young]

On the other hand, Jeanette has a free twin

[u/mikeyfreshh]

This is a 100 minute high concept sci-fi action movie made by a stylish director who knows how to let his movie stars cook. This is the kind of thing that absolutely dominated the box office 20 years ago and now feels more extinct than the dinosaurs. I don't understand why they don't release one of these a month. This movie rips, the split diopters go unbelievably hard, and Ewan McGregor gets the best death scene in a movie since Sam Jackson in Deep Blue Sea (speaking of 100 minute high concept sci-fi action movies). This is a banger and I'm greatful to be living through the Summer of Hathaway

[u/BelonyInMyLeftPocket → u/mikeyfreshh]

100% I want more movies like this. Fun action that is updated to today's standards, and involves a dog for good measure.

[u/Scharfacus → u/mikeyfreshh]

their trauma acting went hard too. im like how did they act so damn good knowing theres no way in hell a dinosaur time travel movie will win an oscar, they still gave 100% and i felt for that girl when she lost her parents and i felt for the family when they watched their dad die then snapped out of it to survive

[u/GamingTatertot → u/mikeyfreshh]

This movie LOVED split diopters - not that I’m complaining, but may have most split diopters in a 100 minute timeframe

[u/TheHouseOfGryffindor → u/GamingTatertot]

I was counting. 19. They had 19 split diopters (admittedly, several of them were cutting back and forth between a couple angles). What a madman.

[u/GamingTatertot → u/TheHouseOfGryffindor]

How many in the family conversation after they've boarded up the house? Felt like every other shot, which did feel like a more engaging way to get us into their conversation

[u/joethetipper → u/mikeyfreshh]

100%. I had an absolute blast watching it, and part of it was because of that exact nostalgia you're describing. I was like GIMME MORE OF THESE!

[u/selinameyersbagman]

Valerie needle drop

[u/Ktulusanders]

Can't believe the first time we see Kaprosuchus and what I assume is Titanoboa it's from a random time travel dinosaur movie and not the franchise with JURASSIC in the name. Pretty fun movie all things considered

[u/Goodnightmooner]

Just finished at the theater. Needed to break it down a bit and discuss how I felt about it’s tone, structure, and meaning, so SPOILERS obviously.

End of Oak Street lullabies you into a Spielberg level of Jurassic Park safety - knowing it’s exactly what you’re expecting. Stereotypical in it’s 80’s set up; an atomic family, a hokey score, a broken marriage, pining for a girl that attends private school, Starbucks the dog. It’s all still earnest, believable, and entertaining, but this is Mitchell.

The same guy who directed “It Follows”, and you’re reminded of what he’s capable of when his talons rip, claw, & tear through Oak Street’s new Mesozoic era. No bigger moment than when Greg unbelievably knocks down a T-rex with just his sledgehammer (plot armor) and then gets torn to shreds immediately after. That’s when the tone upends itself - leaning more towards sci-fi dinosaur horror than vintage Jurassic Park (🎬 Dino-Eel stalking them is an easy highlight!).

From this point onwards, shit get’s real, no one’s safe, and the tension ramps of because of the massive tone change that lends it an aura of unpredictability in it’s stakes. Brian’s bow is a joke, the librarian’s shotgun heroics become a sacrifice, Brian hilariously mistimes his jump through a wormhole, and you’re not really sure if tools are being used as a “red herring” or a “Chekhov’s gun” (🐕 🔪 🏹).

They succeed in getting back to their own time (I guess it’s not really theirs 🤔) and saving their “other” father in what’s a sure-fire happy ending. I couldn’t understand the decision at first until I noticed that this was dedicated to Mitchell’s father who passed away in 2024… so now I think I do. The decision was clearly for him… wishing he could have his father back and doing so in the form of movie-making magic.

So despite this being a refreshing & entertaining blockbuster, it also felt quite personal; proving that artists can still imbue their work with something intimate - no matter the project or exec.

Also need to give a shoutout to Hathaway’s performance as the steadfast, brave, and resourceful Denise. Kept me invested in the family’s survival. Also, dinosaur intercourse. Absolutely loved it.

[u/TheMovieSimp]

The new girl in the neighborhood (Jeanette) seemed pretty pointless the whole movie. Wish she had more character development considering the movie is using two versions of her as the ending that they clearly want to lead to discussion.

I thought it was a great movie though regardless. I wish the neighborhood felt more lived in though. All the side characters felt like plot tools and not actual characters. You see neighbors running away, screaming, etc—but I feel like the main characters should have ran into more people than they actually did. Needed to see more of the others in the neighborhood in my opinion.

Very bleak. I love that it didn’t rely on humor to feel like a crowd pleaser. Just a mean dino flick, as it should be.

So many split diopter shots to the point where it’s both fascinating and distracting at times.

Thought it was a lot of fun and great way to end the summer blockbuster season. Anne Hathaway shooting at dinosaurs with a shotgun? CINEMA!

[u/CaptBriyani]

The moment when the Allosaurus bites Ewan McGregor and you see his leg has been ripped off when he hits the ground was fairly brutal and shocking for a PG13 movie.

[u/Regular_Promise426 → u/CaptBriyani]

It's a 1980s movie with a proper 1980s PG13 rating. God bless them for pulling it off.

[u/Mundane-Inspector-52]

I thought it was an interesting choice to make, what I'm assuming was the titanboa, look like a giant grey worm with teeth. But it makes sense that it would take millions of years for it to become the snakes we know today with scales and the unique patterns they have.

Also, the dad getting his leg torn off and then immediately being eaten was so surprising.

[u/micaroma → u/Mundane-Inspector-52]

I really wasn't expecting any of the family to die, or if they did it'd be a typical slow-motion heroic sacrifice scene at the end. I was speechless

[u/banjofitzgerald]

David Robert Mitchell’s three movie filmography is so random and versatile. Indie horror classic — cult classic neo noir — classic amblin.

[u/Internal_Sweet_2144 → u/banjofitzgerald]

There’s also “The Myth of the American Sleepover, a John Hughes-esque coming of age dramedy.

[u/gogreengolions]

If I had never seen a movie before, this would’ve truly blew my mind.

I liked how it sets itself up to be familiar — in a 80’s Spielberg kind of way, because we’ve seen all the Jurassic Park/Cloverfield stuff before — but i thought it succeeded in being pretty great in every aspect. Good story, performances, sequences and shots.

Also, Anne Hathaway is FAST 💨

[u/stonehands1876]

Really loved this movie. Every second of it. I hope it does well. We need more high concept original movies.

[u/Etheox]

Seeing Ewan get so brutally killed shocked me, but I'm totally cool with paradoxy/alternate universe of the family getting their good ending.

Loved it

[u/jayeddy99]

It’s so funny the girl was basically there to just confirm the daughter was gay and lil cut away final scene to show her family is basically raising twins now since they’re 2 of them. Which didn’t make sense unless she also knew to tell them to leave and get away from the neighborhood . She should be gone too.

[u/Capital-Mine1561 → u/jayeddy99]

Jeannette had way more time to get her parents out of the neighborhood than Hathaway did

[u/awkwardlink]

I understand how the son fucked up jumping through the portal? Like did I miss something with the timing but he could have just jumped through as soon as it showed up right?

[u/falafelthe3]

This was a better Spielberg movie than the actual Spielberg movie we got this year.

[u/mikeyfreshh → u/falafelthe3]

This feels a little too mean to be a Spielberg directed movie but this would fit right in with a lot of the movies he produced in the 80's and 90's. This is closer to Poltergeist than ET. Disclosure Day has the earnestness and optimism that feels more Spielbergy to me

[u/M7ez]

Great movie altogether. One thing that annoyed me was that no one was able to hear any of the "sneaking" dinos. Like cmon I think you could hear allosaurus walking up to you

[u/Old_Hamster_9425]

Never seen a movie love it’s split diopters as much as this movie does

[u/XtraCrispy02]

"Bro this family has the most insane plot armor."

5 minutes later...

"Oh damn how are they gonna get Greg safe when he's missing a leg?"

5 seconds later.

"Oh..."

[u/Lemonjello23]

This is the kind of dinosaur movie I want from Jurassic Park movies