I laughed more than anything else. SPOILERS

Rating: 6/10 (28 July 2001)

Most people thought this was the biggest cinematic disappointment that they had ever seen, that is, until Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace was released two summers afterwards. I write this right after having come home from the third installment, Jurassic Park III, and I can safely say that JPII is the worst of the first 3 (apparently they're going to make one more, at least). Still, I didn't despise it as much as the majority of people.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park is the king of unintentional comedy. I've seen honest-to-God Godzilla movies that were less corny than this film. I had sat through the first half-hour, 45 minutes getting more and more irritated, but then came the scene where the trailer was dangling from a cliff. The characters are all hanging onto a rope on the inside of it, and, when it falls, everyone miraculously is able to hang onto the rope and keep it steady so that, say, a door didn't knock them off. My friend sitting next to me shouted "Bull Sh*t!" I laughed. After that, it all became a laugh-fest. Whether it was Peter Stormare being devoured by tiny dinos or a little black girl (from the where-the-heck-did-you-come-from files) spinning around a randomly placed bar and kicking a raptor in the head (Jeff Goldblum's immortal unintentionally funny line: "So you failed the gymnastics test, huh?"), I was almost on the floor at times. The best scenes result when, King Kong-style, the characters idiotically haul the T-Rex back to San Francisco, where she can munch on dogs and Japanese people (I've heard a rumor that the Japanese fellow it devours says: "Why does this always happen to me?" in Japanese, although that sounds like a tall tale to me).

Yes, this is a terrible movie, but it is one that contains as many laughs as 90% of the comedy being released nowadays. 6/10. Heck, if it weren't for the fun-killing acting of Jeff Goldblum and Julianne Moore (easily the lowest point in her otherwise shining career), I would recommend this movie.