Welcome to Camp Cretaceous, the most insanely dangerous kids summer camp since that one at Crystal Lake. This animated series follows the adventures of a group of children who land VIP invitations to a dinosaur-themed summer camp at the Jurassic World park. While not initially obvious, it's eventually made clear that the timing of the series aligns with the events of the first Jurassic World movie, meaning that characters and critters from the movie will be referenced or make appearances throughout the episodes.
Being aimed primarily at children, the personalities of the kids are heavily stereotyped tropes like the "nerd", the "Youtube star", the "rich kid", etc., although the series eventually evolves many of them, sometimes with surprisingly adult plotlines. Alongside the traditional themes of making friends and overbearing parental expectations are concepts like parent mortality and poverty. Adding to that, it wouldn't be Jurassic World if things didn't go horribly wrong at the park, and they do. Younger attendees of the park are given shiny sets of plot armor, but there are numerous adults not quite so lucky. There's no gore and the frequency of these events is kept relatively low, but younger viewers should probably have an adult supervising just in case.
Overall the stories are kept largely broad and easily digestible for their target audience at a kind of a dinosaur-themed spooky stories level, with just enough adult material to keep older viewers from being completely bored. The animation is detailed and beautiful and the voice acting competent if a bit over the top. The humor is family friendly and while there is implied violence and scary situations, it should be toned down enough that only very young viewers will have difficulty with it. Bottom line, if they've seen the movies there is nothing here that will be as scary as those so if you let your kids watch he movies they should probably be ok with the series, and if they're not quite ready for the movies but are anxious to see them this should be fine as a gentler introduction.
Being aimed primarily at children, the personalities of the kids are heavily stereotyped tropes like the "nerd", the "Youtube star", the "rich kid", etc., although the series eventually evolves many of them, sometimes with surprisingly adult plotlines. Alongside the traditional themes of making friends and overbearing parental expectations are concepts like parent mortality and poverty. Adding to that, it wouldn't be Jurassic World if things didn't go horribly wrong at the park, and they do. Younger attendees of the park are given shiny sets of plot armor, but there are numerous adults not quite so lucky. There's no gore and the frequency of these events is kept relatively low, but younger viewers should probably have an adult supervising just in case.
Overall the stories are kept largely broad and easily digestible for their target audience at a kind of a dinosaur-themed spooky stories level, with just enough adult material to keep older viewers from being completely bored. The animation is detailed and beautiful and the voice acting competent if a bit over the top. The humor is family friendly and while there is implied violence and scary situations, it should be toned down enough that only very young viewers will have difficulty with it. Bottom line, if they've seen the movies there is nothing here that will be as scary as those so if you let your kids watch he movies they should probably be ok with the series, and if they're not quite ready for the movies but are anxious to see them this should be fine as a gentler introduction.