Definitely Entertaining!

Rating: 7/10 (11 March 2011)

I have seen this movie about 10 times in total. It was a real favourite of mine when I was younger and having just watched it today, being a young adult, I still enjoyed it. What reviewers need to remember is this: Jurassic Park was in many ways a kid's film. The Lost World has sought to do something similar which explains why I loved it as a youngster.
I think it deserves more than simply 6.0/10 from IMDb, but I know why it has received this overall rating. Various people have written reviews of this film which are little more than rants: and then they have given a 1/10 rating, which is absurd. It's surprising that quite a lot of people have done this kind of thing and unfortunately it has taken the overall vote of the movie to just 6.0, when it deserves about a 7.
The direction is the kind of thing you would expect from Spielberg. It is certainly not his greatest work, but it is worthy of his name. His direction outshines all the other contributors to this film, even the actors. It is certainly a film you come away from saying: "Yep! Only Spielberg could do that!"
The acting is good: especially Goldblum and Postlethwaite. The young actress, Chester, is also impressive as is the earlier Vaughn. I am also glad that Attenborough plays his part again, as he was crucial and outstanding in the first movie.
The story I think is actually quite good. I couldn't follow some of the earlier bits of the movie dialogue when I was younger but today I finally knew in total what was going on. Interesting...
The special effects are becoming the slightest bit dated: but they are still special.
Finally, the music is very good.
There are obviously criticisms of this movie. I do think the film lost a considerable amount of it's seriousness when the T-Rex entered the city. But, nevertheless: it is what we all wanted to see! And let's not forget that a lot of this movie was "for the kids". Still, I'm glad the city scene is in the film. I also cannot work out how the T-Rex got out and killed the crew and then got itself back into the vault, whilst for the rest of the journey the ship managed to head straight on target for the harbour without losing it's way: though everyone had been eaten ... But there were some big defects in the original movie too. I have thought about this and I don't think it's such a big deal in an action movie, because all we really want is action. Whether it makes sense is, to some degree, irrelevant. What is intolerable is bad acting in order to simply produce an action film: but this film does not suffer from this problem.
This is a far better movie than the majority of films which have been made. It is everything you want to see in the cinema: it is good, fun entertainment!