the magic is gone(warning may contain spoilers)

Rating: Null/10 (13 June 2004)

This may contain spoilers
On paper this film was never going to hold up to the original.But i expected more.
What bugged me about this film was "Site B". Now it is a good idea, i mean an island inhabited by Dinosaurs alone, without cages or fences. But the fact that this island was never mentioned in the first film, left to big of a gaping hole in the story for me.
Also another massive let down was the lack of and portly Velocorapters. Sure we get them near the end of the film, but the scenes with them in are too short, but the most damming part is unlike the first film, where they intelligent creatures, in this film they seemed more like mindless killing machines.
But the worst part of the film was the magic of seeing Dinosaurs was gone. When you first see the Brachiosaur in the first film, even to this day you are in awe, but in the lost world there are never moments like that.
The redeeming features of this film are Pete Postlethwaite, who is brilliant in the role of "Roland Tembo" and i really enjoyed how the Tyrannousaurs looked and acted, like they were caring parents.
This film is overall enjoyable, and a lot better than most of the muck that is on in cinema's today, but it just doesn't hold up to the first one.