Tyrannosaurus rex vs. San Diego

Rating: 7/10 (3 September 2006)

Honestly, I would have been just as content if they had disposed of all the "why-we-need-a-sequel" mumbo-jumbo and gone with the "Tyrannosaurus rex escapes captivity and runs amok in San Diego" angle for the whole movie. I thought that was fascinating. Nevertheless, the movie was pretty good all the way around, particularly for a sequel. The Compsognathus scenes were a little hard to believe (even for a dinosaur movie). I just don't see a 2-foot-tall dinosaur having the ability to kill a man, even if it hunts in packs. But hey, Compsognathus needs love too. (OK, since I wrote this review "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin has been killed by a stingray, so I concede that anything's possible. But I don't see Compsognathus actively seeking out humans to kill when we're three times its size.) Every dinosaur movie should have a Stegosaurus cameo; I think that should be law. Most of the characters are a little bland; the Jeff Goldblum mathematician dude was probably the best of the bunch. But that's the only flaw in a pretty good sequel.