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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Universal Studios
Salesrank: 7541
Released: October 10, 2000 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Two teams head for Site B, an island where the dinosaurs have been left alone for four years. One is for research, and the other for exploitation. They are forced to team up to survive, despite their differences.
Genre: Science Fiction
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 24-AUG-2004
Media Type: DVD
Description of The Lost World - Jurassic Park (Widescreen Collector's Edition):
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
The Lost World - Jurassic Park (Widescreen Collector's Edition) Reviews:
Jp 2 
2009-11-09 - JP 2 is awesome Steven spielberg brings you back to jp, in the sequale to the smash hit. jp 2 is pretty good. i love this movie and so will you. recommend it for everyone
Its about time
2009-10-26 - I have really enjoyed all of the Jurassic Park movies. I am egerly awaiting the forth installment if it is really going to exist. The only really great thing I can say is that its about time someone started carrying the Full Screen version. What good is wide screen if a person don't have one.
A Classic That's Gained A Bad Reputation
2009-07-18 - I'm probably one of the few people that likes The Lost World waaaaay better than Jurassic Park 3. Apart from Sam Neill and Laura Dern, I thought the acting was horrendous in 3 and about ruined the whole film. They didn't have much of a good script to work with, though. In this one however, everybody is great and Jeff Goldblum is brilliant as usual. I don't think the plot is as poor as people've made it out to be. It possibly could've happened, and sure the girl doing gymnastics on the raptor was silly but the trailer hanging over the cliff scene was much scarrier than anything on JP3. There's more deaths and violence in Lost World which could take away from the magic but it adds more to the concept that they're very dangerous creatures. Both Lost World and JP3 have a lot of action, but it feels overkill and monontonous in JP3. Maybe I'm being unfair and should watch the 3rd one again, but this movie definitley doesn't deserve all the criticism it's received!
Excellent Service
2009-06-30 - Came really quick, within 2 days! and it was used, but worked and looked great.
Good Effects, Not Much Else - Very Disappointing 
2009-06-24 - The second Jurassic Park movie, "The Lost World", was a huge let down from the first movie Jurassic Park (Widescreen Collector's Edition). While sequels seldom live up to the original movie, this one miss the mark by a wide margin. About the only thing to recommend about the movie are the outstanding CGI effects, everything else was poorly conceived and executed.
This movie centers around Dr. Malcolm (played heavy handed by Jeff Goldblum) as he tries to rescue his girlfriend (Julianne Moore) from more of Hammond's (brief appearance by Richard Attenborough) dinosaurs. There is also a brief appearance of Ariana Richards and Joseph Mazzello (Hammond's grandchildren from the first movie), but sadly they really play no part in this movie. What we get instead is Dr. Malcolm's young daughter (not a bad actress at all, but laughable casting) as a plot device to provide more incentive for the main characters to be heroic.
While most moves require some suspension of disbelief, this movie has plot holes so large that you could fit a herd of Brachiosaurus through them. All of the characters are caricatures that are so incredibly flat and poorly fleshed out that they act in ways no human would behave in a real life or death situation. The list includes Malcolm's non-stop "I told you so", the experienced field researchers ignoring basic interaction protocols, the daughter's surprising development of Ninja like fighting skills, the evil hunter who only wants to destroy something beautiful, the greedy incompetent corporate executive, and, perhaps most annoying of all, the "Earth First'er" who would jeopardize human life to save an animal. It is bad enough that the movie is tedious, but sadly it is also preachy.
Unfortunately this movie should be watched to get the full Jurassic Park experience, but don't take it too seriously.
