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

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


Starring:Ian Abercrombie, Richard Attenborough, Camilla Belle, Vanessa Lee Chester, Thomas F. Duffy, Jeff Goldblum, Arliss Howard, Harvey Jason, Joseph Mazzello, Julianne Moore, Ross Partridge, Pete Postlethwaite, Ariana Richards, Thomas Rosales Jr., Robin Sachs, Richard Schiff, Peter Stormare, Cyndi Strittmatter, Vince Vaughn
Studio: Universal Studios
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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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
Jurassic Park Adventure Pack (Jurassic Park/ The Lost World: Jurassic Park/ Jurassic Park III)
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Good deal
  • Beautiful package
  • Dinosaur lovers unite!
  • THRILL RIDES GALORE !!!
  • Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park Adventure Pack (Jurassic Park/ The Lost World: Jurassic Park/ Jurassic Park III)
Starring: Rona Benson , Blake Michael Bryan , Laura Dern , John Diehl , and Bruce French
Director: Joe Johnston
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
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Release Date: 2005-11-29

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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:

5 out of 5 stars 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.

5 out of 5 stars 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.

5 out of 5 stars 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!

5 out of 5 stars 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!!!!

5 out of 5 stars Jurassic Park.......2007-05-12

Love this have never been able to see all three together..
Your kids will love it, spell binding
The Lost World - Jurassic Park (Widescreen Collector's Edition)
Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
  • 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
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B00004U8JV
Release Date: 2000-10-10

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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:

1 out of 5 stars Aweful.......2007-04-07

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

4 out of 5 stars 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.

3 out of 5 stars 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!

2 out of 5 stars 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.

3 out of 5 stars 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.
The Lost World - Jurassic Park (Full-Screen Collector's Edition)
Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
  • 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 (Full-Screen Collector's Edition)
Starring: Ian Abercrombie , Richard Attenborough , Camilla Belle , Vanessa Lee Chester , and Thomas F. Duffy
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
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ASIN: B00004WIDR
Release Date: 2000-10-10

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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:

1 out of 5 stars Aweful.......2007-04-07

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

4 out of 5 stars 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.

3 out of 5 stars 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!

2 out of 5 stars 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.

3 out of 5 stars 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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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
After the global phenomenon that was Jurassic Park, it was a given that novelist Michael Crichton would conjure up a sequel and that Steven Spielberg would then commit it to film. Considering the potential profit involved, it was practically a commercial mandate. Perhaps it was inevitable that both efforts were contrived, and well below the talents of Crichton (well, maybe) and certainly Spielberg, who just didn't have the heart for this recycling after the artistic triumph of Schindler's List. What we're left with, for better and worse, is a redundant blockbuster that still benefits from Spielberg's mastery of high-intensity action sequences and the further development of amazing computer-generated special effects. What's missing is the awe and wonder that made Jurassic Park a technical marvel and a dazzling product of scientific imagination. The story's a no-brainer: after the deadly fiasco of the original dinosaur theme park, we're taken (along with returning star Jeff Goldblum) to a second island where genetically engineered dinosaurs still thrive under the watchful eye of Goldblum's biologist girlfriend (Julianne Moore). But a devious capitalist (Arliss Howard) is determined to export dinosaurs to a new park in San Diego, financing a hunt-and-capture expedition that results in another series of fatal disasters. In Spielberg's hands this movie's more exciting than it has a right to be, given the creative paucity of Crichton's novel and David Koepp's adapted screenplay. The special effects are state-of-the-art, and the T. rex's rampage through the streets of San Diego is nothing short of spectacular; but apparently an improvement upon the shortcomings of Jurassic Park was too much to hope for. --Jeff Shannon

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5 out of 5 stars It is Fantastic Package.......2007-03-10

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5 out of 5 stars These are truly great films.......2005-09-12

I love both of these movies. Althought I must say that The Lost World: Jurassic park is the supirior film in this set, Jurassic Prk is a classic too. Go on and buy theses two classic movies.

5 out of 5 stars well done work.......2005-09-01

I own /love this Jurassic Park & Lost World Limited Collectors Edition Box Set,,It rocks :)

5 out of 5 stars awesome & authentic!.......2005-04-30

I love this movie.it is scary, interesting,sci fi,and smart.the dinos are very real looking. you should really get this DVD.

5 out of 5 stars Great Movies!.......2004-10-08

I got this, I already had "Jurassic Park" on VHS, but I wanted it on DVD. And I'd never seen "Lost World" before. I actually liked it, not as much as "Jurassic Park" but it was still good, oh, and one more thing, the "Jurassic Park III" trailer SUCKS! In part one, Doctors Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler are invited by John Hammond to spend a weekend at Jurassic Park. On the way they meet Dr. Ian Malcolm, and as Hammond says, "I bring scientists, you bring a rock star." He says it to Donald Gennaro, head of InGen, the company bringing dinosaurs back to life. Well, a man named Nedry sets everything wrong, and the dinosaurs escape and wreak havoc, 'cause they were behind electrified wire, and Nedry turned it off.

In part two, Hammond asks Malcolm to visit Site B. They visit it and all the animals are loose. They have to get to the communications center in the center of the island, infested by raptors, to get out. And I won't ruin the spectacular ending for you. Adios, amigos!
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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

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1 out of 5 stars Aweful.......2007-04-07

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

4 out of 5 stars 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.

3 out of 5 stars 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!

2 out of 5 stars 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.

3 out of 5 stars 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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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
After the global phenomenon that was Jurassic Park, it was a given that novelist Michael Crichton would conjure up a sequel and that Steven Spielberg would then commit it to film. Considering the potential profit involved, it was practically a commercial mandate. Perhaps it was inevitable that both efforts were contrived, and well below the talents of Crichton (well, maybe) and certainly Spielberg, who just didn't have the heart for this recycling after the artistic triumph of Schindler's List. What we're left with, for better and worse, is a redundant blockbuster that still benefits from Spielberg's mastery of high-intensity action sequences and the further development of amazing computer-generated special effects. What's missing is the awe and wonder that made Jurassic Park a technical marvel and a dazzling product of scientific imagination. The story's a no-brainer: after the deadly fiasco of the original dinosaur theme park, we're taken (along with returning star Jeff Goldblum) to a second island where genetically engineered dinosaurs still thrive under the watchful eye of Goldblum's biologist girlfriend (Julianne Moore). But a devious capitalist (Arliss Howard) is determined to export dinosaurs to a new park in San Diego, financing a hunt-and-capture expedition that results in another series of fatal disasters. In Spielberg's hands this movie's more exciting than it has a right to be, given the creative paucity of Crichton's novel and David Koepp's adapted screenplay. The special effects are state-of-the-art, and the T. rex's rampage through the streets of San Diego is nothing short of spectacular; but apparently an improvement upon the shortcomings of Jurassic Park was too much to hope for. --Jeff Shannon

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5 out of 5 stars It is Fantastic Package.......2007-03-10

I must thankful for Amazon.com for giving such DVD. It is very fantastic, picture clarity and sound is just very fine. My friends also appreciated after seeing the same.

Thank you very much for such quality

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5 out of 5 stars These are truly great films.......2005-09-12

I love both of these movies. Althought I must say that The Lost World: Jurassic park is the supirior film in this set, Jurassic Prk is a classic too. Go on and buy theses two classic movies.

5 out of 5 stars well done work.......2005-09-01

I own /love this Jurassic Park & Lost World Limited Collectors Edition Box Set,,It rocks :)

5 out of 5 stars awesome & authentic!.......2005-04-30

I love this movie.it is scary, interesting,sci fi,and smart.the dinos are very real looking. you should really get this DVD.

5 out of 5 stars Great Movies!.......2004-10-08

I got this, I already had "Jurassic Park" on VHS, but I wanted it on DVD. And I'd never seen "Lost World" before. I actually liked it, not as much as "Jurassic Park" but it was still good, oh, and one more thing, the "Jurassic Park III" trailer SUCKS! In part one, Doctors Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler are invited by John Hammond to spend a weekend at Jurassic Park. On the way they meet Dr. Ian Malcolm, and as Hammond says, "I bring scientists, you bring a rock star." He says it to Donald Gennaro, head of InGen, the company bringing dinosaurs back to life. Well, a man named Nedry sets everything wrong, and the dinosaurs escape and wreak havoc, 'cause they were behind electrified wire, and Nedry turned it off.

In part two, Hammond asks Malcolm to visit Site B. They visit it and all the animals are loose. They have to get to the communications center in the center of the island, infested by raptors, to get out. And I won't ruin the spectacular ending for you. Adios, amigos!
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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
After the global phenomenon that was Jurassic Park, it was a given that novelist Michael Crichton would conjure up a sequel and that Steven Spielberg would then commit it to film. Considering the potential profit involved, it was practically a commercial mandate. Perhaps it was inevitable that both efforts were contrived, and well below the talents of Crichton (well, maybe) and certainly Spielberg, who just didn't have the heart for this recycling after the artistic triumph of Schindler's List. What we're left with, for better and worse, is a redundant blockbuster that still benefits from Spielberg's mastery of high-intensity action sequences and the further development of amazing computer-generated special effects. What's missing is the awe and wonder that made Jurassic Park a technical marvel and a dazzling product of scientific imagination. The story's a no-brainer: after the deadly fiasco of the original dinosaur theme park, we're taken (along with returning star Jeff Goldblum) to a second island where genetically engineered dinosaurs still thrive under the watchful eye of Goldblum's biologist girlfriend (Julianne Moore). But a devious capitalist (Arliss Howard) is determined to export dinosaurs to a new park in San Diego, financing a hunt-and-capture expedition that results in another series of fatal disasters. In Spielberg's hands this movie's more exciting than it has a right to be, given the creative paucity of Crichton's novel and David Koepp's adapted screenplay. The special effects are state-of-the-art, and the T. rex's rampage through the streets of San Diego is nothing short of spectacular; but apparently an improvement upon the shortcomings of Jurassic Park was too much to hope for. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars It is Fantastic Package.......2007-03-10

I must thankful for Amazon.com for giving such DVD. It is very fantastic, picture clarity and sound is just very fine. My friends also appreciated after seeing the same.

Thank you very much for such quality

Menon

5 out of 5 stars These are truly great films.......2005-09-12

I love both of these movies. Althought I must say that The Lost World: Jurassic park is the supirior film in this set, Jurassic Prk is a classic too. Go on and buy theses two classic movies.

5 out of 5 stars well done work.......2005-09-01

I own /love this Jurassic Park & Lost World Limited Collectors Edition Box Set,,It rocks :)

5 out of 5 stars awesome & authentic!.......2005-04-30

I love this movie.it is scary, interesting,sci fi,and smart.the dinos are very real looking. you should really get this DVD.

5 out of 5 stars Great Movies!.......2004-10-08

I got this, I already had "Jurassic Park" on VHS, but I wanted it on DVD. And I'd never seen "Lost World" before. I actually liked it, not as much as "Jurassic Park" but it was still good, oh, and one more thing, the "Jurassic Park III" trailer SUCKS! In part one, Doctors Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler are invited by John Hammond to spend a weekend at Jurassic Park. On the way they meet Dr. Ian Malcolm, and as Hammond says, "I bring scientists, you bring a rock star." He says it to Donald Gennaro, head of InGen, the company bringing dinosaurs back to life. Well, a man named Nedry sets everything wrong, and the dinosaurs escape and wreak havoc, 'cause they were behind electrified wire, and Nedry turned it off.

In part two, Hammond asks Malcolm to visit Site B. They visit it and all the animals are loose. They have to get to the communications center in the center of the island, infested by raptors, to get out. And I won't ruin the spectacular ending for you. Adios, amigos!
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    Acclaimed novelist Michael Crichton talks about his new sequel to the bestselling Jurassic Park, The Lost World. He also discusses his background as a novelist and physician, his new television show E.R., and his plans for future projects. Then, art historian Sir Ernst Gombrich discusses his book The Story of Art, the evolution of artistic styles, and how music influences artistic people.
    The Lost World: Jurassic Park [Region 2]
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    • Darker in tone and weaker characters than the first movie
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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:

    1 out of 5 stars Aweful.......2007-04-07

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

    4 out of 5 stars 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.

    3 out of 5 stars 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!

    2 out of 5 stars 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.

    3 out of 5 stars 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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    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:

    1 out of 5 stars Aweful.......2007-04-07

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

    4 out of 5 stars 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.

    3 out of 5 stars 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!

    2 out of 5 stars 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, kil