The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)'s comments

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Dieguito

Always cool to watch the special effect Dinosaurs again, but not quite a good movie..

12 years 8 months ago

margie

I think that this was an alright sequel. Not good, not bad either. The first Jurassic Park movie was so much better, in my opinion.

12 years ago

Spielberg returned to Jurassic Park with The Lost World, which has some good-looking dinosaurs (both old and new) and makes good use of top-shelf animatronics to cement its reality. Jeff Goldblum also returns, with a new affable team you don't want to see get killed - in fact, he's probably the one hero character who normally WOULD die in a thing like this - including a daughter he suddenly seems to have (because the Jurassic Park formula requires kids in jeopardy). Different island, which gets discovered because Hammond's company didn't put buoys around it, and while the goodies try to snap pictures, big game hunters are trying to bag animals for a zoo or a wall. Spielberg knows how to fill a frame and create tension, which he sometimes extend beyond endurance here (the truck off the cliff bit lasts way too long, for example), but it's the script that really leaves a lot to be desired. There's no caring for the villains - is the big white hunter meant to be NOBLE at the end? It doesn't really work - big reveals are lame, and I really wish Julianne Moore's paleontologist would use a SHRED of scientific expertise to get out of problems instead of just doing the same action everyone does. Problems often generated by characters acting stupidly, I might add. And then after an anti-climactic ending, there's a brain dead fourth act that doesn't make any kind of sense (what ate the crew? what are those quiet suburbs next to the waterfront? why doesn't the kid care a dinosaur ate his dog?). I've gone on record saying the original J-Park dazzled you with fx so you didn't noting the huge plot holes. As this one plays out, we take the dinos for granted so there's no hiding the writing problems.

3 years 5 months ago

DJPowWow

Spent the whole time rooting for Vince Vaughn's douche-bag eco-terrorist character to get killed by raptors, since most of the plot's conflict is driven directly by his irresponsible actions. Was sorely disappointed when he survived. And don't even get me started on the whole part with the little girl fighting off dinosaurs with gymnastics... ugh

11 years 12 months ago

DisneyStitch

There's a weird sort of "second rate" feel to this sequel. The kind of jokes that were genuinely funny in the first film are goofy and thrown in at the oddest times in this one. The action is good but at the same time it has that "King Kong" feel that another commenter nailed perfectly. Because of the urban climax to the film we don't get quite as much time on Isla Sorna and I think that is somewhat disappointing.

Pete Postlethwaite's character feels like he should be interesting and maybe even a cousin of Muldoon from the first movie but he isn't given any character development, just a few odd lines that are supposed to be powerful but it just doesn't cut it. If you are going to use him as a way of highlighting humanity's drive of being the top predator than don't go half-hearted with it.

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