The Lost World - Jurassic Park (Full-Screen Collector's Edition)
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Features
• Closed-captioned
• Color
• Dolby
• DVD-Video
• Full Screen
• NTSC
In Theaters : 23 May, 1997
DVD Release : 10 October, 2000 |
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The Lost World - Jurassic Park (Full-Screen Collector's Edition) description
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 theoreticia ... review details
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Less impressive than the first yet still very enjoyable...
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So as far as sequels go, this is far from the train-wreck many reviewers make it out to be. Is it as amazing as the original Jurassic Park'? No, but that doesn't make this a failure of a film. In fact, I happen to much enjoy The Lost World' and feel that, while it could have been better I can't really find much I dislike about it. There is lots of intense sequences, some stylized deaths and there's that whole T-Rex gone mad' scene at the end that makes this whole rendezvous worth it. Sure, the plot is a little tired and it's a little ridiculous when you think about it (albeit Jurassic Park III' is even more ridiculous) but if you just want a good action flick with realistic special effects then The Lost World: Jurassic Park' will not disappoint.
So we meet up with Ian Malcolm again this time played less annoyingly by Jeff Goldblum (I was not a fan of his character in the first film but here he seems to have gotten a hold of his performance and ironed it out). Ian is still shaken by his encounter with the cold-blooded beasts in the first film, and rightfully so. When he finds out that there is a second island hosting the dinosaurs he is far from interested until he hears that his girlfriend Sarah Harding is already on the island studying the dinosaurs (it's ridiculous to me that she would go there alone...that would NOT happen) and so he immediately gets together a rescue team to travel to the island. Little does he know that he has a stowaway aboard, his daughter Kelly.
The rescue team is thwarted by the efforts of another team sent for an entirely different purpose. This makes big trouble for the group, especially when they take matters into their own hands.
Remember that this is an action film. The story is assumed less important than the graphics and so it does take a backseat unfortunately. The acting is descent for a film of this nature. Like I said, Goldblum ups his game in that he is far less annoying this go around (which is a good thing since he has a much larger role). Julianne Moore can add another film to her rA sumA she can be ashamed of, but at least her performance isn't horrid. Vince Vaughn to me was a standout, but again, he's been much better in many other films. Vanessa Lee Chester is a descent young actress.
The real actors though are the people in charge of creating the dinosaurs and they do a dynamic job once again. There are a slew of creative action scenes that make up for the lack of depth in the plot. The raptor attack through the field is great, as is their ambush at the communications tower (although the whole acrobatics scene is horrifically stupid). The T-Rex though is champ here for his two main scenes are the best in the film. The whole trailer over the cliff' scene (which was the best part of the novel by the way) is brilliantly constructed, and the whole T-Rex loose through the city' scene at the end (which is so King Kong') is just amazing. They also introduce a new dinosaur this go around, these little devils that hunt in packs.
So, while The Lost World' is not as well crafted as the original Jurassic Park' it is still very enjoyable and worth our attention. I'm sure most everyone has seen this movie so I don't think it's a movie you recommend' as much as discuss. So, for all of you who have your own opinions of this movie, what do you think? Am I right, wrong or somewhere in between? |
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