Oh no, not again!

Rating: 8/10 (14 August 2000)

Jurassic Park, of course, is a great movie. No one in his or her right mind can say otherwise. And in today's cinema market, any great movie is going to be followed by a sequel that may, or may not, live up to the first. Well, in the case of The Lost World: Jurassic Park, I can't help but feel that it fell just short of Jurassic Park's greatness, however being a great movie itself. The Lost World picks up 4 years after Jurassic Park left off. The premise is that all the dinosaurs on the island that Jurassic Park took place on were transplanted there from another where they lived before being put into the `zoo' that Jurassic Park was to be. There is a slight flaw in this though. There is a scene in JP where a dinosaur egg is hatching, and we are led to believe that all are hatched in that lab on the island. In The Lost World, Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum), is contacted by Jurassic Park creator John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) to help stop a group of hunters that want to catch these dinosaurs, and bring them to the mainland to be put on display. This is where most people that didn't like this movie began to get turned off. The faction that wants to bring the dino's to the U.S. manage to get a T-Rex, among others, onto a ship, and set sail for San Diego. Well by accident some veloceraptors hitched a ride too.
***Warning*** ***Spoiler Ahead***

Ok, here is a major flaw in the movie. When the raptors have killed everyone on the ship, who is left to navigate it to San Diego? While I liked the scenes of a Tyrannosaurus Rex running free in downtown San Diego, many felt it was too `unrealistic'. Yea, like having an island full of dinosaurs is more realistic. J Anyhow, The Lost World: Jurassic Park is a great film to compliment an even better film, and has also been a great film to hold us over until summer of '01 when a much anticipated JP:3 is released.I can't wait!