For Sale: one Special Edition Collectors pack VHS copy of The Lost World, Jurassic Park--listed price $ 1.00

Rating: 3/10 (7 May 2014)

Manages to be preachy while still able to sell action-figures, video games, fast-food tie-ins, and children's wear. The analogy would be a bible quoting grandmother who also runs a child sex slave ring. This movie feels like it was made as an afterthought to the Universal Studios theme park ride of the same name. This movie features legitimately talented actors: Julianne Moore, Jeff Goldblum, and Pete Postlethwaite stand out in the credits, but their abilities are sorely wasted on one clichéd action sequence after another. Spielberg is given director credit but obviously his personal assistant directed this movie via the telephone from her office in L.A.--that or Steven Spielberg really lost touch by 1997.