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This article contains spoilers for "Jurassic World Rebirth."

The "Jurassic" franchise is in a dire place — creatively, of course, because financially, the franchise continues to virtually print money. Sure, Gareth Edwards' "Jurassic World: Rebirth" is better than the travesty that was "Dominion," because it's at least an often-fun adventure with dinosaurs. But it's also, as /Film's Jeremy Smith deftly pointed out, a "cry for help from a series that's run out of ideas."

The movie is a back-to-basics story wherein a group of mercenaries are hired to head to yet another secret island full of dinosaurs (this time an island with some ugly mutant dinosaurs) in order to extract samples for a Big Pharma guy.

Part of the problem with the movie is that it continues a rather ludicrous idea from the "Jurassic World" trilogy — that people somehow would grow bored of dinosaurs. This started with the first "Jurassic World...

The original G.I. Joe toyline was conceived in 1963 by designer Stanley Weston and was meant to serve as a more "masculine" counterpart to the female dolls designed for girls. Indeed, the word "doll" was used by marketers to describe babies or dress-up miniature women, not soldiers or men of action. Hasbro came up with the term "action figure" to refer to its G.I. Joes, and the term stuck. For several generations, children's toys were heavily gendered along those lines, with "girl" toys encouraging motherhood, domesticity, and fashion, while "boy" toys encouraged combat and violence.

By 1982, the G.I. Joe brand had become moribund and was in need of a sprucing up. A new line of toys was launched under the new name G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. These figures were only 3.75 inches high (the older ones were 12 inches) and were composed of 11 cartoony characters. They were American soldiers ... kind of.

Weird paleo-media provides a fascinating plethora of fossils from other times and cultures that audiences can forget. In terms of animation, for every iconic cartoon classic like The Flintstones or Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous lies hidden gems and critically-panned coprolites hoping to appeal to humanity's fascination with dinosaurs. Examining past dinosaur media provides captivating insights into the evolution of paleo-pop culture while simultaneously sparking curiosity about the possibilities of resurrection, much like the dinosaurs in Jurassic World.

As a testament to the power of imagination and the medium of animation, 1914's Gertie the Dinosaur stunned audiences as they watched an Apatosaurus come to life. While not the first animated feature, it set a new standard for cartoons, being heralded as: "The greatest animal act in the world." Since then, dinosaurs have been a mainstay in comics, cartoons, and other media, giving rise to classic series like Alley Oop, The Flintstones,...

A lot of Hollywood reboots get flak for being quick cash grabs that capitalize on nostalgia for easy money.  While this might actually be the case for a number of projects, occasionally we get some original programming that is clear about the intention of selling merchandise.  Like one of our previous adaptation suggestions in Tyco's Dino-Riders, today's installment of Hollywood! Adapt This has toys at the heart of its story.  This one's for every kid out there who wished he or she had a magical cap that would instantly transport them anywhere in the world.  Hit the jump to find out why being the cap-bearer comes with more troubles than just hat hair.  Hollywood! Adapt this: Mighty Max! What It's About: Running for a total of 40 episodes over 1993 and 1994, the animated half-hour series Mighty Max was originally envisioned as a way to sell Bluebird Toys' products of the same name,...