Not as bad as some say it is.

Rating: Null/10 (4 September 2011)

For one reason or another some people seem to have it out for this movie. The general reasoning seems to be that it's not as original as the first Jurassic Park movie, and that's the truth...But not a reason to warrant this as an awful movie. Lets start with what I think is good about it.
(The Good) Jeff Goldblume was born to play Ian Malcolm. Reading the Jurassic Park books I totally get a Jeff Goldblume vibe from the way Dr. Malcolm is portrayed in the books. Another good thing about this movie is that its chocked full of dinosaur action, T-Rex attacks Velocraptor's in the grass, Its got all in the way of deadly dinosaurs.
(The Bad) I've found that I prefer Jurassic Park to be set on an island...The whole city rampage thing didn't really work out for me. A lot of the characters are mixed and matched in this movie with characters from the book and that generally doesn't work out.
(My Thoughts) I feel there's a couple of things that need explanation here...In the book, There were initially seven main characters. Malcolm, Thorne, Eddie, Sara, Richard, Kelly, Arby. In the book Kelly was a 12 year old white girl and Arby was a 10 year old black boy. The Kelly in the movie the lost world, is a 12ish black girl...In essence they combined Kelly and Arby from the book into one character. I've actually heard this was their intent. In the book Thorne was sort of the unsung hero, He kind of took on the role in this book that Dr. Grant took on in the first book. Though oddly Thorne is absent from the movie release of The Lost World...Instead he's replaced by the Greenpeace hippie Nick Van Owen (AKA Vince Vaughn). Don't get me wrong I got nothing against Vince Vaughn...But Thorne or at least a Thorne like character seemed more appropriate for this application. Richard Levine makes a few appearances in the movie...In the book he was ''sided'' with the good guys who just wanted to observe. However in the movie he's sided with the ''bad guys'' who want strip mine the place and make a zoo out of the animals. In the book Levine survives the event's...Barely. In the movie, he's eaten by the Tyrannosaurs while still on the island.
All and all...this isn't a bad movie; though I didn't hate the San-Diego scene with the T-Rex...I have to admit it was a little goofy. Overall a good sequel to a great movie.
8/10