Contrived but sometimes fun

Rating: 6/10 (13 November 2000)

To say this film is almost the clone of Jurassic Park (no pun intended) is to give Spielberg credit. This film is a large drop off from the original and while sequels don't get up to the original, this one does try, but flails. Story has ex mathematician/celebrity Ian Malcolm (played with some clueless finesse by Jeff Goldblum) going to another island by Attenborough with dinosaurs running loose with chaos and other plot things ensuing. Sometimes entertaining compared some other c**p, but to view along side the original is a no-brainer. One other thing, why put the first smashing scene from the first book into the second movie? Best scene for me though isn't T-Rex in San Diego (despite that being fun), but rather Vince Vaughn being chased by little reptile dinosaur things. B-