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Jurassic World reviewed by 9-year-old amateur paleontologist

Elliot Seah may be the world's youngest dino expert--with a book deal already under his belt. He's been to theatres to see Jurassic World, and tells CBC what he did and didn't like about the movie.

Elliot Seah gives film 4-star rating for interesting dino breeds, but doesn't like violence

Beaconsfield resident Elliot Seah gives Jurassic World a 4 out of 5 star rating for its inventive dinosaur breeds. (Rebecca Ugolini, CBC News)

Nine-year-old Elliot Seahknows so much about dinosaurs, he literally wrote the book on them.

The Grade 5 student (he skipped two grades)fromMarguerite Bourgeoys ElementarySchool will become a published author this fallwhen ditionsMultiMondesprints his dinosaur book aimed at young children.

That's not the only prehistoricmilestone in Seah's life.

While he wasn't around to watch T-Rex cross the big screen in the 1993 release of Jurassic Park, he finally got to see thePG-13Jurassic World with his dad last weekend.

Here's his review:

The dinosaurs were mighty, but weird

Jurassic World's star is IndominusRex, a hybrid dinosaur created by combining DNA from the Tyrannosaurus, the Velociraptor, and several other dinosaurs and creatures,including a tree frog.

"It doesn't makes so much sense, fusing animals and dinosaurs together. It would have been better to have just animals or dinosaurs. If not, it's going to make a weirdo mix," said Seah.

The movie was full of happy mistakes

"I found a lot of errors, but some made the movie better,"saidSeah.

"The Mosasauruswas five times its size. I thought 'Oh, come on, that's going to be really bad,' but it actually made the movie better, because it helped at one point."

Violence kept it from a 5-star rating

"I would give [Jurassic World] a4 out of 5 stars, because the violent parts didn't do much for the movie. For example, soldiers were trying to kill Indominus Rex, but it killed them first," says Seah, who adds that the film may be too scary for younger children.

We were curious how Jurrasic World went going down with our favourite Montreal dinosaur expert and future paleontologist, Elliot Seah. He's just nine years old, and already has a dino book deal!

Dino-digging summer ahead

Seah is off to British Columbia next week to play the cello in the national finals of a music competitionand after that, it's off to the Dinosaur Provincial Park inDrumheller, Alta.

"We'll try to find some fossils. Eighty per cent of the site is reserved for paleontologists [but] I have a friend paleontologist in Calgary, so maybe he could take me to visit that."