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Even though this probably wasn’t the sequel to Jurraisic Park we really wanted, it has some good moments.
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The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)

________ The Lost World: Jurassic Park - trailer


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Sequel to Jurassic Park (1993): Spielberg returned for the 2nd film in the franchise, bringing back the characters played by Jeff Goldblum and Richard Attenborough (as well as cameos by Arianna Richards & Joseph Mazzello).

Goldblum's Ian Malcolm is told by Hammond that there's a 2nd island. Ian, of course, has no intention of going there (remember, he was the the first to voice his apprehensions about all this in the first film), but Hammond also tells him that his girlfriend (Julianne Moore), a dedicated paleontologist, has already gone there.

So, away Ian goes, as well as his daughter, as a stowaway. The script for this one was way weaker than the first, having a forced quality about it. Besides retreading familiar ground, it throws in all these caricatures and cliches as characters. It's not good when the more entertaining one is played by Peter Stormare, as a sadistic member of the 'bad' group.

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That's the set-up here. There's the good group, led by Ian, and then there's the bad group, led by Hammond's nephew (Arliss Howard), the new head of the corporation. He's brought in a large group of experts, including a big game hunter (Pete Postlethwaite), to capture a bunch of the dinosaurs.

Things go wrong, of course; people are eaten and torn up on both sides, and they finally get a T-Rex, tying it down on a boat transport. But, by the time this reaches San Diego, things have gone wrong again, setting things up for the big setpiece of a large carnivore roaming the city streets. Even with some excitement generated — mostly via great FX — much of this was wrongheaded, even the title. I mean, The Lost World? How unoriginal can you get? Jurassic Island would have been a lot better.

______The Lost World - The InGen Team Arrives


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Jurassic Trivia: Despite a record-breaking opening weekend ($72m), this one ended up with only about two-thirds of the first one's total gross (this is all domestic). The weekend record held until 2001, when the 1st Harry Potter film busted it with just over $90 million. The next sequel, Jurassic Park III, arrived in 2001, without Spielberg, and then there was a long wait until 2015 for the 4th film.

BoG's Score: 6 out of 10


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