Just because they could make a squeal, did anyone stop to ask if they should? (Ok, that was too easy)

Rating: 1/10 (13 November 2000)

The only thing good about this film being made was that it gave the team of ILM and Stan Winston a chance to improve their skills with dinosaur simulation technology, other than that it was a remarkable waste of talent.

I read Jurassic Park AFTER seeing the movie and loved the book. Subsequently, I read Lost World BEFORE seeing the movie and knew there could be trouble. The book was extremely contrived so I had hoped the movie under the right direction would prevail. Well it didn't, in fact it went in just the opposite direction.
Not only was the film 100 times more contrived, it suffered from poor casting and direction as well. At times this film is laugh out loud bad, much so it doesn't really warrant any further discussion unless after seeing it, you disagree with me.
With that said, watch this film with your finger poised on the fast forward button so you can quickly get to the great effect scenes. My only hope is that the makers of JP III learned something from the story failure of JP II. I'm not holding my breath.
Oh, before I let you go...if anyone who has seen this film can explain to me how a T-Rex (the only dinosaur on the ship) got into the control bridge of the cargo ship and ate the crew (left a hand on the wheel), left the room pretty much intact, then managed to get trapped in the cargo hold before the ship crashed into the dock...I'd like to know. (seems to me they meant to have raptors but just ran out of DNA-ero.)