This movie is a good time - PERIOD!

Rating: 10/10 (25 September 2001)

How people can bash this movie is beyond me - can you find flaws in the plot line - yes. Are there occasional inconsistencies - yes. Are they any worse in this movie than the ones in Star Wars and Indiana Jones - no. Instead of nitpicking every little thing that Speilberg did wrong, why not take a step back and look at all he did right. This movie has some excellent acting (Goldblum and Postlewaite),a very good story, certainly good enough to string together all the incredible action sequences and movie magic that we're engulfed by throughout the entire film, and it actually pulls off a little moral statement about our society (both the stupidity of some hunters wanting to kill anything they can, and the stupidity of some tree hugging peace-niks that think everything should be saved.) The suspense is there too - I actually jumped out of my seat watching the movie again last night during the raptor/shack scene. People were obviously expecting something else from this movie when they bash it, but what WERE they expecting?!?! This movie has all the coolness of the first film and delivers extra - 2 t-rexes, new dinos, great capture sequence, and the entire SanFran ending is fantastic (who as a child didn't have nightmares that looked EXACTLY like what happened to the little boy?). If this movie had been the first Jurassic Park movie, people wouldn't have enough good things to say about it, and the first one would be a pretty weak follow up - wouldn't it? To throw in a personal music opinion it is like the band Boston's first two album releases. The first one became an instant classic and one of the most played albums possibly ever - because it was great and nothing had ever sounded like it before. Their second album sounded just as good as the first, same strong songwriting and catchy riffs, only something already sounded like that before, so people were less taken by it. Take my word for it - this movie is a good time, even though it's the SECOND dinosaur movie to be a good time.
9 of 10, but it gets a 10 to make up for idiots that bombed it.