3.5 stars--Good sequel

Rating: 8/10 (28 August 2008)

Jurassic Park is one of my all time favorite movies so it would be hard for The Lost World to measure up. However, taken on its own merits, LW is a good action movie. Jeff Goldblum is back as Ian Malcolm and finds out there is a Site B, a different island where the dinos were bred. he also finds out his girlfriend has gone down to the island to study them. Malcolm goes down to bring her home before she is eaten. While there, another group from Ingen arrive to hunt and capture as many species of dinosaurs as they can to turn them into a travleing sideshow. Once again the effects are tremendous and I don't really understand some people's complaints that the story isn't good. I didn't see anything wrong with the basic concept. It's not as good as the first movie because you don't have Sam Neill and Laura Dern and you don't have that same awe as the first time you laid eyes on the dinosaurs trying to put yourself in the place of the paleontologists. I think all in all though that this was a strong sequel and an enjoyable movie.