Jurassic Park (Widescreen Collector's Edition)

Starring:Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Bob Peck, Martin Ferrero, Joseph Mazzello, Ariana Richards, Samuel L. Jackson, B.D. Wong, Wayne Knight, Gerald R. Molen, Miguel Sandoval, Cameron Thor, Christopher John Fields, Whit Hertford, Dean Cundey, Jophery C. Brown, Tom Mishler, Greg Burson
Director: Steven Spielberg
Studio: Universal Studios
Product Type: DVD

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Jurassic Park
Steven Spielberg's 1993 mega-hit rivals Jaws as the most intense and frightening film he'd ever made prior to Schindler's List, but it was also among his weakest stories. Based on Michael Crichton's novel about an island amusement park populated by cloned dinosaurs, the film works best as a thrill ride with none of the interesting human dynamics of Spielberg's Jaws. That lapse proves unfortunate, but there's no shortage of raw terror as a rampaging T-rex and nasty raptors try to make fast food out of the cast. The effects are still astonishing (despite the fact that the computer-generated technology has since been improved upon) and at times primeval, such as the sight of a herd of whatever-they-are scampering through a valley. --Tom Keogh

The Lost World - Jurassic Park
In the low tradition of knockoff horror flicks best seen (or not seen) on a drive-in movie screen, Steven Spielberg's sequel to Jurassic Park is a poorly conceived, ill-organized film that lacks story and logic. Screenwriter David Koepp strings along a number of loose ideas while Jeff Goldblum returns as Ian Malcolm, the quirky chaos theoretician who now reluctantly agrees to go to another island where cloned dinosaurs are roaming freely. Along with his girlfriend (Julianne Moore) and daughter, Malcolm has to deal with hunters, environmentalists, and corporate swine who stupidly bring back a big dino to Southern California, where it runs amok, of course. Spielberg doesn't seem to care that the pieces of this project don't add up to a real movie, so he hams it up with big, scary moments (with none of the artfulness of those in Jurassic Park) and smart-aleck visual gags (a yapping dog in a suburb mysteriously disappears when a hungry T-rex stomps by). A complete bust.--Tom Keogh

Jurassic Park III
Surpassing expectations to qualify as an above-average sequel, Jurassic Park III is nothing more or less than a satisfying popcorn adventure. A little cheesier than the first two Jurassic blockbusters, it's a big B movie with big B-list stars (including Laura Dern, briefly reprising her Jurassic Park role), and eight years of advancing computer-generated-image technology give it a sharp edge over its predecessors. While adopting the jungle spirit of King Kong, the movie refines Michael Crichton's original premise, and its dinosaurs are even more realistic, their behavior more detailed, and their variety--including flying pteranodons and a new villain, the spinosaurus--more dazzling and threatening than ever. These advancements justify the sequel, and its contrived plot is just clever enough to span 90 minutes without wearing out its welcome.

Posing as wealthy tourists, an adventurous couple (William H. Macy, Téa Leoni) convince paleontologist Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and his protégé (Allesandro Nivola) to act as tour guides on a flyover trip to Isla Sorna, the ill-fated "Site B" where all hell broke loose in The Lost World: Jurassic Park. In truth, they're on a search-and-rescue mission to find their missing son (Trevor Morgan), and their plane crash is just the first of several enjoyably suspenseful sequences. Director Joe Johnston (October Sky) embraces the formulaic plot as a series of atmospheric set pieces, placing new and familiar dinosaurs in misty rainforests, fiery lakes, and mysterious valleys, turning JP3 into a thrill ride with impressive highlights (including a T. rex versus spinosaurus smack-down), adequate doses of wry humor (from the cowriters of Election), and an upbeat ending that's corny but appropriate, proving that the symptoms of sequelitis needn't be fatal. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

Good deal.......2007-06-27

Great fun to watch again these 3 great movies with my daughter. Very good presentation for a good price. Great value.

Beautiful package.......2007-06-27

Jurassic Park is a great movie, no doubt about it. And this package is also great... It's very well made, and opens up revealing beautiful images.
The second movie (The Lost World) is boring and it doesn't get near the first.
Jurassic Park III is another great one... It isn't better than the first, but it's way better than the second.
And the many extras that comes within the discs are good too.

I think that the only fault of this box set is the lack of english subtitles. There's english closed captions only.

Dinosaur lovers unite!.......2007-06-15

When the first Jurassic Park movie came out I fell in love with the brachiosaur "Welcome to Jurassic Park" scene and have been hooked ever since. To have the three movies in a set and the additional footage is just a pleasure. True the plot of the second movie (The Lost World) is not in the same league with that first vision, but the dinosaurs are so great that it is still fun. The third movie, however, is much closer to the first in quality and almost equally entertaining, thanks in part to the acting skills of William H. Macy.

It is the dinosaurs, however, that star in this trilogy. It is amazing to me how the well the special efffects have held up! Definitely worth the cost of the DVDs. Dinosaur lovers unite and ENJOY!

THRILL RIDES GALORE !!!.......2007-06-13

I have been a nut for Dinosaur movies since I was a kid and they were shown on a square screen in black & white in theatres. "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms" was the greatest of its time and now here I get to see these three magnificant movies in my living room ! I saw these at the theater and I have to brag that my sourround is better ! The movies are sharp, colorful and the sound is wonderful!!! Dinos tramping all over the place !!! Oh by the way the EXTRAS are superb!! I love seeing these guys loving what they are doing and it shows in the movies! Its amazing how they make this stuff work! What a great job!!! Delightful, and entertaining fantasy fun for the kid in all of us!!! GET THE POPCORN!!!!

Jurassic Park.......2007-05-12

Love this have never been able to see all three together..
Your kids will love it, spell binding

Jurassic Park (Widescreen Collector's Edition)

Average customer rating:

Somewhere in this movie there is the potential for a masterpiece that never quite materializes
Overrated...And It's Aged Over the Years
You'll believe dinosaurs walked the Earth.
365 Million Reasons to Watch
Awesome Movie!

Jurassic Park (Widescreen Collector's Edition)
Starring: Sam Neill , Laura Dern , Jeff Goldblum , Richard Attenborough , and Bob Peck
Director: Steven Spielberg
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
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ASIN: B00003CXAT
Release Date: 2000-10-10

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Steven Spielberg's 1993 mega-hit rivals Jaws as the most intense and frightening film he'd ever made prior to Schindler's List, but it was also among his weakest stories. Based on Michael Crichton's novel about an island amusement park populated by cloned dinosaurs, the film works best as a thrill ride with none of the interesting human dynamics of Spielberg's Jaws. That lapse proves unfortunate, but there's no shortage of raw terror as a rampaging T-rex and nasty raptors try to make fast food out of the cast. The effects are still astonishing (despite the fact that the computer-generated technology has since been improved upon) and at times primeval, such as the sight of a herd of whatever-they-are scampering through a valley. --Tom Keogh

Product Description

Multimillionaire John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) has a plan for a spectacular new theme park: a secluded island where visitors can observe actual dinosaurs. With the latest development in DNA technology, scientists can clone brachiosaurs, tricerotops, velociraptors, and a Tyrannosaurus Rex, using the blood preserved in amber from insects that bit the dinosaurs long ago. Paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill), Dr. Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern), and Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) are duly impressed with the living results during an advance visit. But when a devious employee tampers with the sophisticated security system, the dinosaurs escape, forcing the visitors to fight for their very survival.

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Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Richard Attenborough, Joseph Mazzello, Ariana Richards, Wayne Knight, and Samuel L. Jackson.
Directed By: Steven Spielberg.
Running Time: 127 Min., Color.
This film is presented in "Widescreen" format.
Copyright 2000 Universal Distribution Corp.

Format: DVD MOVIE

Customer Reviews:

Somewhere in this movie there is the potential for a masterpiece that never quite materializes.......2007-05-29

Last night I rewatched Jurassic Park for the first time since the '90s. I still am amazed by the dinosaurs and how real they still look and am charmed by Richard Attenborough's performance as John Hammond. But I don't like this movie as much as I once did. So, lest I get some hateful comments, before I list the problems with this movie let me say that I still feel this is a good movie (good, meaning that it's certainly worth a rent and possibly even buying it). The intent of this review is not to bash this film so much as to challenge the claim that it is a masterpiece. Here is a list of some of those reasons:

1. Trying to hard to make people laugh (The zingy one-liners):

"What do they got in there? King Kong?", "Dinosaurs eat men, woman inherits the earth.", "We're back in the car again", "God bless you". These are examples of some of the many one-liners from the movie, obviously designed to generate a laugh in the audience. Some of them work well. Others not so well.

I don't think that caustic remarks, in moderation, is a bad thing. But the movie has so many of these lines that it makes me wonder if the characters are in some sort of unconcious competition with each other to see who can come up with the most biting comment. The overall effect is that this doesn't feel like how people, who are seeing dinosaurs for the first time in real life, would actually talk.

2. The pompous moral rectitude (manipulating the story to fit the ethics):

"We shouldn't tamper with nature because we have no idea what we are getting into because life will find the way." That's, more or less, a paraphrase by some of the dinosaur experts right before a sequence of events would prove them right, as if they had psychic vision of what was to come. I must say that, for people who spend their lives studying these fossils, they had a very lukewarm response to what I would expect to be their childhood dreams coming true. I, as a viewer of the movie, seemed to be more excited to see these CGI images than the characters who were, in the movie, seeing actual dinosaurs. In Spielberg's earlier work (E.T., Close Encounters, Jaws) there wasn't some underlying moral message and it got on just fine.

3. The two kids (especially the girl):

Come on, admit it. These kids were annoying and were obviously included in the story just to please kids their age and get their parents to bring them to the theater.

The girl is the worst of the two. She is supposed to be smarter than her brother but while they were in a car she decides to shine a flashlight at the T-Rex which causes it to move towards them. INCREDIBLY, the girl continues to shine the flashlight at the T-Rex. Through Herculian efforts, I managed not to shout "turn the f***ing light off" at the TV. The kids are just a burden to everything and everyone.

Alright, I hope that wasn't too brutal. Besides those small things, I liked the movie and don't regret buying it. It's just not a masterpiece like many people claim.

Overrated...And It's Aged Over the Years.......2007-05-17

"Jurassic Park" is one of Steven Spielberg's highest grossing films, but can hardly be called his best. While it's still very entertaining, it's aged over the years and seems a little bit cheesy by today's standards. The film stars Sam Neill as Grant, a Dinosaur expert whose job is digging up fossilized dinosaurs. Helping him is Ellie (Laura Dern), his girlfriend and co-worker. One day, at a dig site, they meet Dr. Hammond (Oscar winning director Richard Attenborough) who invites them to be some of the first people to see his new theme park. Once there, they are amazed to find that Hammond has found a way (using fossilized DNA) to recreate living dinosaurs and his theme park, Jurassic Park, will give the public the opportunity to see these long extinct creatures. Aboard a jeep that moves through the park, Grant with Hammond's two grandchildren and a wisecracking scientist (Jeff Goldblum) they begin to explore Jurassic Park and all its wonders. Pretty soon, due to an untrustworthy employee of the park, the power is out and the dinosaurs are given the chance to run free. One thing Spielberg does that makes this film rise above what it could've been (a movie that was popular the summer it came out and quickly disappeared...You all know the kind of movie I'm referring too) is by doing the same thing he did with "Jaws." We see some dinosaurs early on in the film, but before the big reveal (in this case being the T-Rex) he allows us to meet the characters and get a good feel on the plot. Once that's been established an hour into the film, Spielberg unleashes all the monsters. "Jurassic Park" is not a masterpiece of cinema, it's not a great film, but it's entertaining and still interesting...Me writing this is pointless though, because I'm sure that you've already seen it. But, whatever, there's my opinion.

GRADE: B+

You'll believe dinosaurs walked the Earth........2007-05-14

When I was driving home from the theater after this movie, I did look at birds differently. I swore any minute a dinosaur could run out from behind a building. This is and was the best dinosaur movie I've ever seen. Who doesn't like a good dino movie? And how old is it now and it still holds up well against other movies' special effects today.

As for the story, some will say it's slow, but I think the pacing is perfect and although kids now a days might think there isn't enough action, I think the build up to the first time you see the Tyrannosaurus Rex attack is one of the greatest moments in movie cinema. It's intense, scary, even funny, and best of all you don't think about the special effects because you're watching a real 8 ton monster wreak havoc. The movie is worth this scene alone and then when the raptors come you'll be jumping and at the edge of your seat.

Love this movie.

365 Million Reasons to Watch.......2007-04-11

What do you get when you mix the collaborative efforts of Steven Spielberg, John Williams, and Stan Winston? Simply put, the greatest film ever made! The directing is superb, the music is unforgettable, and the visual effects are never to be matched. "Jurassic Park" brings it all to the table in an adventure film for the ages.
I will never forget going to see this movie in the theaters when I was nine years old. For a nine year old to sit down and watch this is mind-blowing to say the least. It was in that moment that I realized I was a "movie person". I was already a huge fan of Spielberg's "E.T.", but now I had another movie to love. This is THE MOVIE!

Awesome Movie!.......2007-03-11

Either you love it or hate it. Its Jurassic and In-Your-Face! Wide screen is great.

Jurassic Park III (Widescreen Collector's Edition)

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awsome
Worst Movie I Ever Saw!!
Jurassic Park 3 Takes a Bite
A much better sequel
This one is my favorite

Jurassic Park III (Widescreen Collector's Edition)
Starring: Laura Dern , John Diehl , Bruce French , Sonia Jackson , and Michael Jeter
Director: Joe Johnston
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
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Surpassing expectations to qualify as an above-average sequel, Jurassic Park III is nothing more or less than a satisfying popcorn adventure. A little cheesier than the first two Jurassic blockbusters, it's a big B movie with big B-list stars (including Laura Dern, briefly reprising her Jurassic Park role), and eight years of advancing computer-generated-image technology give it a sharp edge over its predecessors. While adopting the jungle spirit of King Kong, the movie refines Michael Crichton's original premise, and its dinosaurs are even more realistic, their behavior more detailed, and their variety--including flying pteranodons and a new villain, the spinosaurus--more dazzling and threatening than ever. These advancements justify the sequel, and its contrived plot is just clever enough to span 90 minutes without wearing out its welcome.

Product Description

Adventure runs wild when renowned palentologist Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neil) agrees to accompany a wealthy adventurer (William H. Macy) and his wife (Tea Leoni) on an aerial tour of Isla Sorna, InGen's former breeding ground for prehistoric creatures. But when they're terrifyingly stranded, Dr. Grant discovers that his hosts are not what they seem, and the island's native inhabitants are smarter, faster, fiercer and more brutal than he ever imagined in this heart-stomping thriller.

Please Note: Consumers who wish to purchase Jurassic Park III who already own their preferred copies of Jurassic Park and The Lost World may receive a collectable slipcase and Bonus Disc allowing them to complete their own "Jurassic Park Complete Collection" via mail for only $6.95. This coupon will be inside the disc itself.

Features:
The Making Of Jurassic Park III
Feature Commentary with Special Effects Team
The New Dinosaurs of Jurassic Park III
Tour of Stan Winston Studio
A Visit To ILM: Witness 20 Different Stages in an Exclusive, Rare Step-by-Step Look at the Computer Graphics Created by ILM
Dinosaur Turntables: A Spectacular Three-Dimensional Look at the 12 Dinosaurs Created for the Film
Behind-The-Scenes
Storyboards to Final Feature Comparison
The Jurassic Park III Archives
Theatrical Trailers
Montana: Finding New Dinosaurs: A special visit to paleontologist Jack Horner's dinosaur dig with never-before-seen footage

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Starring: Michael Jeter, Tea Leoni, William H. Macy, Trevor Morgan, Sam Neill, and Alessandro Nivola.
Directed By: Joe Johnston
Running Time: 93 Min., Color.
This film is presented in "Widescreen" format.
Copyright 2001 Universal.

Format: DVD MOVIE

Customer Reviews:

awsome.......2007-06-10

ok if any one has ever enjoyed the frist too. this one is pretty good as well. oh though i kinda wished more people got eatten lol it waz very good. its not as long as the other two films but has more new and old dinos in it. its stilla great buy pluse it has alot more stuff on the dvd then the other two soo overall this is a good movie.

Worst Movie I Ever Saw!!.......2007-05-31

I loved Jurassic Park 1 and 2. But when i saw this i was so pissed that i didnt even want to see the next 1 the 4th Jurassic Park!

Dont buy this movie!!!!!

Jurassic Park 3 Takes a Bite .......2007-05-16

Jurassic Park 3 Takes a Bite
Released: 2001
Rated: PG-13

Picture two people a child and an adult parasailed and the boat driver magically disappeared into the fog. The people glide onto a mysterious island. Will they ever get off the island? Where did the boat driver go? This is best movie I have ever seen you should watch it too.

Then dinosaurs look so real. At some parts in this movie these dinosaurs look like they are coming right out of the TV screen.
This movie has a book to it and it is almost just like the movie. I have also read the book. This book was so good that I told every one that they should read it too. This movie is so good that I had to watch it more than once. I ended up watching this movie at the least seven times.

This movie is one of the best movies I have ever watched in my entire life. I recommend this movie to children thirteen and over because children under the age might get scared of the huge dangerous dinosaurs.
If you were on the island what you think you would see and if you were in this situation would you be scared.

by:m&m

A much better sequel.......2007-03-26

I am a big fan of the original film, Jurassic Park, but found the first sequel, Jurassic Park: The Lost World to be poorly developed character- and plot-wise, with too much reliance on action and special effects. I was so disappointed with my first viewing of the first sequel, that I did not see it again for years, and did not see the third movie, Jurassic III, until very recently, when I bought the DVD version of the trilogy.

In Jurassic III, paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) has vowed to never set foot on Isla Sorna, the island near Costa Rica where InGen, a company owned by wealthy entrepreneur John Hammond, had staff use genetic engineering and DNA harvested from blood extracted from fossilized mosquitoes to clone dinosaurs and raise them. The dinosaurs were to be exhibited on nearby Isla Nublar, in the ultimate theme park, Jurassic Park, with the disastrous results shown in the first installment of the trilogy. After the debacle on Isla Nublar, InGen abandoned both islands, and they were quarantined, until the dinosaurs could die off. But, the dinosaurs flourished.

Now, an apparently rich, divorced couple has talked Dr. Grant into being their guide for an aerial tour of Isla Sorna, but they have a hidden agenda. I don't see this as a spoiler, as it is one of the first scenes in the movie: a man (the divorced woman's boyfriend) and a boy (the son of the divorcees) are stranded on Isla Sorna, after a parasailing trip goes badly. The divorced couple (William H. Macy and Tea Leoni) really want to rescue their son (Trevor Morgan) from Isla Sorna, with the help of Dr. Grant and his assistant (Alessandro Nivola), who do not know they are on a rescue mission, and Michael Jeter and his crew. Of course, the dinosaurs do not appreciate the intrusion, and see the humans as good snacking material.

The dinosaurs: Three dinosaur species were big attractions in this movie. A new "super-predator," Spinosaurus, was introduced, and it was bigger and meaner than Tyrannosaurus rex. A section of the island was set aside for pteronodons, and they were very interesting. And, of course, the Velociraptors were a big part of the film, with the premise being that, had the Earth not experienced a meteor-triggered climatic cataclysm, the Velociraptors might have ended up as the globe's dominant species. The theme of their communication skills was well-done and very interesting, and the portrayal of the animals has been updated, to match recent theories, by having them sport crests of primitive proto-feathers. One of the DVD's special features was a "dinosaur turntable," wherein the different species were presented as monochromatic three-dimensional models revolving on a platform, full-color models revolving in a real-life scene, and computerized models showing their locomotion. This educational feature was great, but could have been expanded, to include information on hunting, feeding, and social interaction facts, to the extent those are known.

Special effects: Amazing. Truly amazing. The movements of all the different animals are done very well, look natural (Right! As if I know how a Spinosaurus should move!), and blend very well with the real aspects of the scenes (like people and trees). The battles between the Spinosaurus and the Tyrannosaurus rex is amazing to watch and, in some bizarre way, I found myself sad about the outcome, which just points out how realistic these beasties seemed to me. The pterosaurs, in their odd manner of walking and graceful flight, were quite credible, and their final scene, reminiscent of the closing scene of Jurassic Park with the pelicans, was loaded with portent, suggesting that, if there ever were a Jurassic IV, it might portray a world where humanity was trying to keep itself off of the Endangered Species list.

The intangibles: Jurassic Park showed us some moments of movie magic, most notably the wonder of Drs. Grant and Sattler seeing the brachiosaurs for the first time, and realizing how their world had just turned upside-down, plus the primitive, terrifying glory of the triumphant Tyrannosaurus rex near the end, as she inescapably declared the world to belong to her. The Lost World had none of that wonder, charm, or emotional power.

What about Jurassic III? Trevor Morgan, William H. Macy, Tea Leoni, and Allesandro Nivola helped Sam Neill restore an element of human emotion and connectivity to the film, and the idea that the Velociraptors were even more advanced than previously thought, added an element of both terror and wonder (as in "I wonder what life will be like now?") to the story. This third installment in the series did not have as much emotional impact as did the original, but it came close enough to call it a worthy sequel.

Pros: Action, special effects, pterosaurs, a real story

Cons: It still lacks some of the wonder of the first film.

The Bottom Line: This is a better sequel to Jurassic Park than was The Lost World, with more story, better acting, and just as much action and great special effects.

Recommended: Yes

Viewing Format: DVD
Suitability For Children: Suitable for Children Age 13 and Older

This one is my favorite.......2007-01-29

Let's be honest, after "The Lost World" did anyone have high hopes for the third installment? I certainly didn't. I came late to the Jurassic Park movies, only seeing them a few years ago, so I don't have any real attachment to the first movie. I enjoyed it but I couldn't stand the child actors and enough with the Chaos Theory, Jeff Goldbum. For me, number three was the best. It was fun and entertaining. Don't get my wrong, I understand why the Emmys overlooked this movie. However, I thought that the actors were good; the story was well thought out and it was overall an enjoyable, exciting movie. Don't get caught up comparing it to the original, because odds are you like that one best. Feel free to compare it to the "The Lost World," because odds are you don't like that better... than anything. In closing, let me say this: "Jurassic Park III" is worth your time and money and at the very least it will get the horrible taste that is "The Lost World" out of your mouth.

The Lost World - Jurassic Park (Widescreen Collector's Edition)

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Aweful
Not as good as the first Jurassic Park, but still Awsome
Dinosaur Eats Man-It gets old!
A jokey dinosaur movie don't make for good cinema
Darker in tone and weaker characters than the first movie

The Lost World - Jurassic Park (Widescreen Collector's Edition)
Starring: Ian Abercrombie , Richard Attenborough , Camilla Belle , Vanessa Lee Chester , and Thomas F. Duffy
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In the low tradition of knockoff horror flicks best seen (or not seen) on a drive-in movie screen, Steven Spielberg's sequel to Jurassic Park is a poorly conceived, ill-organized film that lacks story and logic. Screenwriter David Koepp strings along a number of loose ideas while Jeff Goldblum returns as Ian Malcolm, the quirky chaos theoretician who now reluctantly agrees to go to another island where cloned dinosaurs are roaming freely. Along with his girlfriend (Julianne Moore) and daughter, Malcolm has to deal with hunters, environmentalists, and corporate swine who stupidly bring back a big dino to Southern California, where it runs amok, of course. Spielberg doesn't seem to care that the pieces of this project don't add up to a real movie, so he hams it up with big, scary moments (with none of the artfulness of those in Jurassic Park) and smart-aleck visual gags (a yapping dog in a suburb mysteriously disappears when a hungry T-rex stomps by). A complete bust. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews:

Aweful.......2007-04-07

Not good at all compared to the first. I also am not sure but it doesn't look digitalized.

Not as good as the first Jurassic Park, but still Awsome.......2007-02-10

This wasn't quite as good as the First Jurassic Park in 1993. But this is still the action packed And it's my second favorite Jurassic park. The lost world jurassic park came out in 1997. This one had even more dinosaurs. And much more carnovors eating people! YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS FILM!!! Also see these films Jurassic park & Jurassic park 3.

Dinosaur Eats Man-It gets old!.......2007-01-29

Jurassic Park was amazing. That might have been because it was the first monster/horror film I've ever seen. But it was action-packed, and it was suspensful. THE LOST WORLD starts that way, but it wears off a quarter of the way through the film. This movie runs in a basic cycle: T-rex comes out of the forest. People run from T-rex. T-rex eats people. T-rex goes back into the forest. Over, over, and over again. The only real suspensful part is about forty-five minutes into the film, when the three main characters are trapped in a trailer that is slowly falling over a cliff into the ocean five hundred feet below. That was the only part that made me gasp.
It starts to get old, and then it just starts to get insane. This is a jungle movie. In the end, it takes a turn for GODZILLA and has a big T-rex stomping his way through San Diego. Half way through the movie you're ready to turn it off, and by the end you're breathing a sigh of relief. It is true that THE LOST WORLD had more dinos, better visual effects, and more action (if you can call eating people action)than the original Jurassic Park. But in my opinoin, just watch the first one and forget that there are any sequels. You'll enjoy it!

A jokey dinosaur movie don't make for good cinema.......2007-01-29

Everyone in my generation has to remember seeing the first movie in theaters, and how great it was to see dinosaurs come to life thanks to a mixture of stop-motion, robotics, and the first major use of modern computer graphics. The story wasn't the greatest in the world, but it was entertaining nonetheless, and seeing the movie as an adult later I still loved it. Many more of us probably saw this movie when it came out in theaters. At the time I didn't think much of it, but seeing it again as an adult...willickers, was this bad.

The plot consists of Ian Malcom (Jeff Goldblum) being called to John Hammond's mansion. It turns out that he is a member of the company InGen, and has a snotty rich nephew looking to move in on his dinosaur science. It's also revealed that the dinosaurs were actually bred on ANOTHER island (all this fits into the "we forgot to tell you this in the first movie" category of film rules) and Hammond wants Malcom to lead a team there before his greedy nephew can try and utilize the dinosaurs to make money. Malcom agrees because it turns out his girlfriend is there, (Julianne Moore, who never quite picked up how to act) and his black daughter (don't ask) stows away in their trailer. While on the island Hammond's greedy nephew arrives with their team, with the goal of capturing dinosaurs, including a T-Rex.

There are so many faults to this movie, but I think I'll start with the characters. It's very safe to say the dinosaurs are the best part of this film, as most of the humans deserve to be extinct in their own right. In the first movie Malcom was great; he was a kind of Cassandra-like character who spoke cynical wisdom but was ignored. In this one he's just annoying, because he makes sarcastic jokes ALL THE TIME. It's much like how Lucas ruined Yoda in the new Star Wars movies by overdoing his backwards talk. This is combined with the fact that every other character in this film makes a sarcastic comment at every occasion, whether it be about the death of their friends or their dire situation. Also, let's talk about Julianne Moore's character, who is the greatest offender. She's supposed to be smart, and she's supposed to be independent. You're supposed to laugh at Malcom's attempts to save her, but you realize he's right - because she's a complete idiot! She's also an amazing hypocrit. She tells people not to interfere with the island or even "bend a blade of grass" yet walks right up to a baby dinosaur and touches it, causes a stampede, takes in a baby T-Rex, intermingles with the dinosaur population, and in general bends a lot of grass. She also warns people that some dinosaurs have a strong sense of smell, then continues to wear a jacket covered in baby T-rex blood. This gets a lot of people killed, but we're still supposed to like her as a character. Oh yeah, and there's John Hammond's nephew. You liked John Hammond in the first movie because - despite all his faults - he was a very human character. His nephew is the typical corporate villain character you'd find in any other horror movie.

Now let's talk about the film itself, which is just bad all around. There are so many problems with the story that Ed Wood would shake his head in shame. Take for example how the carnivores are supposed to be on the interior of the island, yet a little girl is attacked by carnivores on the island's beach and InGen personnel find a T-Rex nest right near where they park on the island's exterior. Or how about how no one knows the island is secretly called "The Five Deaths" even though it's clearly shown on their trailer map as being labeled "The Five Deaths?" Or what about that whole scene with the boat, where the T-Rex somehow escaped, killed everyone, then the captain became a zombie and shut the T-Rex back in its haul before dying for good. (at least, that's the only way I can explain it) Speaking of that whole sequence, how'd you like the T-Rex walking around San Diego? Especially since it seems to do so for about ten minutes without causing ANY KIND OF MASSIVE CHAOS! And then when police come they turn around and drive away as if they didn't know what was walking about the city. (there's even an "animal control" van there with them...I think that's an attempt at humor, but I'm not laughing) By the way, I think this is the only world where a T-Rex could sneak up on people, as one does so in three scenes. Do dinosaurs tiptoe?

And how about the great dialogue, like when Hammond's nephew wants to set up camp and Pete Postlethwaite's character says to him:

"Peter, if you want me to run your little camping trip, there are two conditions: first, I'm in charge, and when I'm not around, Dieter is. All you have to do is sign the checks, tell us we're doing a good job, and open your case of scotch when we have a good day. Second condition: my fee? You can keep it. All I want in return for my services is the right to hunt one of the tyrannosaurs. A male, a buck only. How and when is my business. Now if you don't like either of those conditions, you're on your own."

Uh, shouldn't they have settled all this BEFORE they left for the island?

Admittedly I used to see this movie in a brighter light. A few months ago I would've given it three stars. I used to think this was a fun-bad movie - the kind of "craptastic" film you could laugh at. After a while, though, it became unbearable. And I know exactly when I snapped. It was when they showed those Japanese businessmen running from the T-rex. HA HA HA HA HA!! GET IT FOLKS?! JAPANESE PEOPLE RUNNING FROM A GIANT REPTILE!! HA HA, THAT'S COMEDY GOLD!! HA HA...HA...ha...

Yeah, just avoid this movie. They constantly play it for laughs, which makes it a campy just-for-the-money sequel. Just stick with the first one and pretend it ended there.

Darker in tone and weaker characters than the first movie.......2006-11-25

Like Jurassic Park, "The Lost World" is based on a novel by Michael Crichton, who was a co-writer on both screenplays. The original novel was darker than the movie; this movie reflects that darkness.

The main character is Ian Malcom (Jeff Goldblum), a supporting role in the original, and a non-surviving character in the book. The only other movie character that has a role more than a cameo is John Hammond (Richard Attenborough), a character that likewise did not survive the book. To me, the first hint on the tone of the movie was to make cynical Malcolm the star instead of the more typical heroic Dr. Grant (Sam Neill) from the original. Even the humor is darker.

The first scene in this sequel is actually from the opening of the original novel (I have not read the novel "The Lost World"), partially used because it introduces a dinosaur not in the original movie, though these critters played a role in the original novel.

This sequel, though, is more of a horror story than a true science fiction story. Its goal is to terrify you. As a result, many of the human characters are meant to be victims for the monsters (e.g. dinosaurs), instead of characters you really care about.

This movie follows the formula of the original movie: 1) an attack by a dinosaur; 2) an introduction to why the characters come to the island; 3) some wonderful dinosaur footage, and lighter hearted plot/character development; 4) the attack of the tyrannosaur(s); 5) more action; 6) the attack of the velociraptors; and 7) the rescue of the survivors. This sequel does add a second ending, where a tyrannosaur is allowed to roam the streets of San Diego as you would expect from a B-grade horror movie.

If you like horror movies, this will be to your liking. It is well crafted as far as the special effects. However, I would not recommend this movie.

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Somewhere in this movie there is the potential for a masterpiece that never quite materializes.......2007-05-29

Overrated...And It's Aged Over the Years.......2007-05-17

You'll believe dinosaurs walked the Earth........2007-05-14

365 Million Reasons to Watch.......2007-04-11

Awesome Movie!.......2007-03-11

Either you love it or hate it. Its Jurassic and In-Your-Face! Wide screen is great.

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Worst Movie I Ever Saw!!.......2007-05-31

I loved Jurassic Park 1 and 2. But when i saw this i was so pissed that i didnt even want to see the next 1 the 4th Jurassic Park!

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Jurassic Park 3 Takes a Bite .......2007-05-16

A much better sequel.......2007-03-26

This one is my favorite.......2007-01-29

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Aweful.......2007-04-07

Not good at all compared to the first. I also am not sure but it doesn't look digitalized.

Not as good as the first Jurassic Park, but still Awsome.......2007-02-10

Dinosaur Eats Man-It gets old!.......2007-01-29

A jokey dinosaur movie don't make for good cinema.......2007-01-29