Quite bad, frankly

Rating: 4/10 (12 March 2011)

First off, why isn't movie called 'Jurassic Park 2' or 'Jurassic Park: The Lost World' instead of 'The Lost World: Jurassic Park'? Why invert the positions? The result is a strange title...
Well, this is quite a crummy follow-up to the great original film. I cannot give it much praise. I didn't like it, it was simply not in the same league of the original. I thought its action was often over the top and the story left much to be desired. The cinematography was crude most of the time, even though it still had some nice cinematography but not on the same level as the original. Also, I felt that Alan Grant was greatly missed on this one. The idea of Ian Malcolm having a much bigger role in this one was very bad. Also, Ian Malcolm was more bitter in this film (he is funnier in this original).
Malcolm's girlfriend wasn't very appealing to me either. I prefer Dr. Ellie Sattler from the original. And how come Malcolm has a fully black daughter? Being Malcolm a white man, that doesn't make sense, unless she was adopted. That is one of the many unanswered questions in this motion-picture. I disliked many of the characters. There were too many characters and too many annoying ones. Another thing that disappointed me is that Tim and Lex only have a very minor role and then they just disappear like that. They only appear about 20 seconds. I would have liked them to have a bigger role, even if not as big as they have in the original.
Speaking of Tim and Lex, they run to Malcolm and give him a big hug. He doesn't really spend time with them in the original, so it would make more sense if Alan Grant was in this movie and he was the one the kids ran to and hugged. After all, he was the one who spent time with them in the original and rescued them.
The people who went to the new dinosaur island seemed more stupid. They seemed to just want to challenge the dinosaurs. At least in the original it was something that went awfully wrong. But here they already knew about the events 4 years before. The little dinosaurs bugged me: they were too many and too dull and served no purpose at all.
The lines were nothing special, but I did like Malcolm's line «Mommy is very angry». That was the best line.
This is far more violent and gory than the original. The scene when a T-Rex throws a hinged trailer over a cliff is extremely tense. It's an attempt to repeat the formula of the original's famous scene of the jeep being attacked.
At least in one thing this sequel is comparable to the original: the amazingness of the dinosaurs (how great and real they look and their awesome roars and impeccable animation).