Warning: SPOILERS for Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous Season 4.
The sinister Mantah Corp in Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous season 4 created an even worse idea than Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom's infamous dinosaur auction. Although Darius (Paul-Mikel Williams), Brooklynn (Jenna Ortega), Kenji (Ryan Potter), Sammy (Raini Rodriguez), Ben (Sean Giambrone), and Yasmina (Kausar Mohammed) finally escaped Isla Nublar at the end of Camp Cretaceous season 3, the Mosasaurus wrecked their boat and left them stranded on a new island previously unseen within the Jurassic franchise. Unfortunately, this island is owned by Mantah Corp, which has a sinister plan for the hybrid dinosaurs it's secretly breeding.
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom's dinosaur auction may be the silliest event of the entire franchise. Before Isla Nublar's Mt. Sibo volcano erupted and destroyed the island, many of the dinosaurs were rescued and brought to Lockwood Manor in Northern California. There, Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) and Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) discovered that the dinos were being sold in an illegal black market auction underneath the mansion. Even worse, the prehistoric dinosaurs were commanding absurdly low prices, especially considering they are among the rarest animals on Earth. Although Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom was a box office hit, fans rightfully mocked the dinosaur auction's concept and execution as a creative low point in the overall franchise.
In Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous season 4, Darius broke away from his circle of friends and infiltrated the inner workings of Mantah Corp and their twisted mastermind, Kash D. Langford (Haley Joel Osment). Darius discovered that Mantah Corp's scheme is to create a dinosaur fight club for the entertainment of their wealthy clientele. To achieve this, the company used stolen dinosaur DNA from Isla Nublar to breed their own hybrid dinosaurs as well as other prehistoric creatures like a saber-tooth tiger. To make the fights more exciting, Mantah Corp also built four different biomes on their island, with a desert, jungle, swamp, and arctic environment. Kash also uses biological enhancers to make the dinosaurs more aggressive and utilizes drones and robots called BRADs to control the dinosaurs' movements.
While Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom's dinosaur auction was absurd, Camp Cretaceous season 4's dinosaur fight club idea is diabolical. As Darius and his friends learned, Mantah Corp didn't care about how they were harming their dinosaurs and saw them as completely disposable. Worse, Mantah Corp was torturing the animals since birth and feeding them drugs while testing how they respond to different environments and stimuli. Many of the buyers in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom's dinosaur auction wanted to use the beasts as weapons but Mantah Corp abused their dinos and regarded them as nothing more than pawns in their illicit moneymaking scheme.
To save the dinosaurs in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Maisie Lockwood (Isabella Sermon) decided to release the animals into the wild after she discovered she is also a clone. This set up the dilemma the world faces in having to coexist with dinosaurs in Jurassic World: Dominion. But Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, at least, used the discovery of Mantah Corp's dinosaur abuse as a means for the show's teenage heroes to be their best selves.
Giving up any hope for being rescued, the main characters of Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous came to the dinosaurs' rescue and worked with the benevolent Dr. Mae Turner (Kirby Howell-Baptiste) to sabotage Mantah Corp's evil plot and keep the dinosaurs safe. The kids' efforts worked—until they were discovered. But Mantah Corp may have an even worse future planned for the Jurassic dinosaurs and the teenagers in Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous season 5.
Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous Season 4 is streaming on Netflix.
