"Jurassic Park... Works"

5 February 2026

1 min 45s

Hold on to your butts.

The 'Jurassic World Evolution' series of video games means it is possible to succeed where John Hammond, Peter Ludlow, and Simon Masrani failed, but what if you only have a couple of minutes to spare? For its debut Super Bowl ad, Xfinity asks what Isla Nublar in 1993 would look like if no one got eaten on the toilet, hunted by velociraptors, or forced to dig through triceratops dung.

"Hold on to your butts," as Ray Arnold once said—to complete the brand's what-if scenario, actors Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum have been de-aged (thank Christ everyone resisted the urge to exhume Richard Attenborough). The results are… mixed, we'd say: Dern as OG Ellie Sattler emerges unscathed, while Goldblum as OG Ian Malcolm exists somewhere between planes of existence.

Sam Neill as OG Alan Grant, however, may haunt viewers' dreams for the rest of time. To say he looks off would be an understatement— if the smart-mouthed kid from the first movie thought a raptor claw was scary, wait until he gets a load of the de-aged dinosaur guy. So, er, how does Xfinity enter into all this?

With Dennis Nedry nowhere to be found, an Xfinity employee uses the anachronistic power of WiFi to get the park back on track. This lets Sattler run with a flock of Gallimimus, allows Grant to take a selfie with a Tyrannosaurus rex, and prompts Malcolm to dig into "a massive pile of shrimp". Is it sacrilege? Maybe, but there's also more personality here than many of the sequels managed.

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