could of been a lot better but still a lot fun

Rating: 7/10 (12 May 2006)

I heard that they were making the sequel to Jurassic Park, I was excited because I read the novel and since Spielberg was directing I hoped he was stay as a somewhat faithful as he mostly did to the first book, I was wrong.
The thing that hurt this movie was the stuff they did NOT need. Malcolm did NOT need to have a daughter, there did NOT need to be two teams (though Roland was one of my favorite characters in the piece.), Ingen did NOT need to come in strip mind the place, some of the original characters and story lines could and SHOULD of been shown, and last but not least the entire sequence in San Diego with T.Rex could of been cut or made a heck of a lot shorter, though the scene with the little boy seeing big Rex was very funny. It just these little thing that gripe when should have been enjoying.
Despite it short comings, the film was just as good visually as it was the first time around, Golblum surprised me where he took the character of Malcolm, not being the smart cocky Mathematician that he was in Jurassic Park, turning him into somewhat more darker and fear filled man (who would NOT after surving the ordeal he did) but still have dry witty humor that audiences loved about him.
Also the spirit of the first film is very much there, a survival man vs. nature piece, sort of magnified seeing how this band of explorers and hunters do not have a park security system or a team of techies backing them up and knowing that this place is the dinosaurs home and they are the intruders.
Though not being the ground-breaker is predecessor was, the lost world will entertain audiences, I mean come on, everybody loves a baby T.Rex :)