Not AS good as the original, but OK

Rating: 10/10 (10 October 2000)

As a person who has seen and read both Jurassic Park works, I admit the film version is completly different than the novel. However, reasons for that are, if they were to be verbatim and have the exact same story line, the movie would be over 6 hours long, and pretty dull as much is not dialogue, but action. Some stuff in the books could not even be feasible in the movies. Read any novel that has become a film, and you can see it. In addition, I thought Lost World was pretty good. Not as good as the first, but pretty good. Kelly wasn't the best, but she did ok for a younger actress. The story line could have been added to, but it was pretty good.
To those who thought the "Godzilla" scenes were stupid, I thought it was one of the funniest things I had seen. It is just after they get off the island where many died for nothing, and they added COMIC RELIEF to the film. Yes, it was a little random, but the reason they brought the Rex to the city was to start the JP: San Diego, not so it would run a muck and kill people. It was the screenwriters idea of what could happen if a t-rex would happen to stumble into downtown San Diego today. A bit like the newer Godzilla where it goes into New York. Godzilla, a bit, but still creative in how they accomplished it. Also, the whole Compy's killing the hunter: very good with the foreshadowing. I mean as soon as Sarah and the rest go back to camp you hear her say, in the background, something about changing the course of things, one of these things is: blood in a river. They killed him because he was the one who shocked the little compy first which probably made them HATE HIM, and after he gets killed, you see that pool of blood start to form, I didn't catch that until I watched it this afternoon (the palentologist makes reference to them not having a reason to fear humans). Also look what they did to the little girl. The point of this is, no one really knows what these EXTINCT animals would do in this situation because we cannot judge through the evidence we have how they MIGHT react in 1997 San Diego. These are just my thoughts, they may not be true, but hey, it is what I think. I thought it was a really good movie, it was meant to be funnier than the first and I think it was accomplished 100%. Not as good as the first, but completely different sequels usually are. I am in anticipation for Jurassic Park 3!!!!