Surprise, surprise

Rating: 3/10 (6 July 2000)

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This has to be one of the lousiest sequels ever made. It's running uphill against Under Siege 2, Speed 2 and Alien 4, but it's almost at pace with those awful movies.
There is one thing I do like in this film - it's the part where the T-rexes push the camping-lab-van-whatever over the cliff. Despite the fact that the back part of the trailer, the one hanging down from the ledge, is upside-down, and despite the horrifyingly stupid attempt to drag the entire 20-ton trailer back up again with a 1,5 ton mercedes jeep (good luck), it's the one enjoyable moment of the film. Oh, and I like the dino that punches the car door straight through the car with its head.
Actually, there is a scene that really sums up all the lousiness of this cheap we-want-more-money-sequel: it's a hyperbole, something I am convinced movies can do without. In the beginning, Malcolm's daughter sulks over her not managing to qualify for some gymnastic competition (or something like that) - and near the end this little kid performs a "stunning" move as she swings around and kicks a Raptor trough the wall. Yeah, right. Much like the merc pulling that trailer up.
Well... I certainly have no hopes at all for the third Jurassic Park, which, I hope, will come too late to inspire yet another buying frenzy, which is really why they make the movies number two and three at all.