The very wanted sequel to the original Jurassic Park, an amazing freaking movie, filled with really interesting characters, like Ian Malcom (Jeff Goldblum), and even more interesting and cool dinosaur shenanigans, like compys actually killing a guy, people getting licked by a T-Rex, and alot of cool velociraptor moments, and the finale of bringing a freaking T-Rex to San Diego, wrecking havoc everywhere it goes, all in all a really fantastic movie.

The Lost World is a worthy sequel to the awesome Jurassic Park. Spielberg is back at the director's chair- though not many knew at the time he'd never helm a Jurassic film again- and the script is sound. Many criticize the last segment when it becomes a sort of King Kong with Dinosaurs aka a T-Rex loose in the city but I didn't mind it. The effects are great, acting is good though no one really cares about the characters as long as there are dinos chewing people and the direction is sound. The Lost World may not be as good as Jurassic Park but it's a good sequel.

This film is similar to the original Jurassic Park, but introduces some much darker, scarier themes, and the highest death toll in any Jurassic Park film as of now, though this may change with the upcoming Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.This movie had more dinosaurs than the original, introducing the Stegosaurus, Pachycephalosaurus, Mammenchisaurus, and Compsognathus, as well as finally giving the Parasaurolophus and Triceratops properly exciting scenes. It's the only movie in the franchise to properly portray herbivores as dangerous animals, with Sarah Harding being attacked by Stegosaurus, a rampaging triceratops destroying a camp, etc. And the carnivore scenes were a lot of fun, particularly the worker village with the raptors.Some people don't like this film because it focused too much on the horror element, and not the wonder and beauty seen in the first movie. I say this makes it more realistic, a properly accurate portrayal of what would happen should the dinosaurs return. The deaths were gory, memorable, and creative, with my two faves being Dieter Stark's demise by Compsognathus, and Eddie Carr being torn in half by the T-Rex parents. A great movie that just barely falls short of the bar set by it's predecessor.

Continuing my plan to watch every Steven Spielberg movie in order, I come Jurassic Park: The Lost WorldI think this movie is the worst type of sequel. A Box Office sequel. The whole site B idea is awful. We seen eggs hatch and all the Dino DNA on the island in the first one. Lazy. Lazy. Lazy. And, because it doesn't offer anything new or innovative, it seems rather familiar and almost boring.It does have some cool bits. The image of the trail of the raptors approaching the survivors in the field looks great. The trailer over the cliff sequence looked good and was intense when Moore was on the glass, but over all it made little sense and was just one of the movies many action sequences. The human character are as cardboard as they come, and are scripted to do stupid things (than nobody would ever do in this situation) so the dinosaurs can chase and eat them.An awful lot of it is set at night!! The night scenes allow Spielberg to use his most familiar visual trademark, the visible beams from powerful flashlights. Another Spielberg trademark is the absent Dad (this time played by Goldblum) Even a press conference announcing a dinosaur park is held at night. The Lost World was the third highest grossing movie of 1997. Only Men In Black and Titanic grossed more than its $229 million domestic haul.