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The Lost World: Jurassic Park

1997

Steven Spielberg

Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Vince Vaughn, Pete Postlethwaite ...

5.7

51,193

Sci-Fi. Adventure. Fantasy John Hammond summons chaos theorist and onetime colleague Ian Malcolm to his home with some startling information -- while nearly everything at his Jurassic Park had been destroyed, engineers were also operating a second site, where other dinosaurs, resurrected through DNA cloning technology, had been kept in hiding. Hammond has learned the dinosaurs on the second island are alive and well and even breeding; Hammond wants Malcolm to ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"The movie, at its best, is good fun: deft, scary, engrossing. Yet it's never great fun"	NEU
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Where is the awe? Where is the sense that if dinosaurs really walked the earth, a film about them would be more than a monster movie? Where are the ooohs and ahhhs? (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"The biggest sequel of the summer has more dinosaurs, better special effects and more action than the original... But the inspiration is gone, and with it most of the fun"	NEU
United States	Leonard Klady Variety	The dinosaur creations are even better than those in the first film --- credible, breathtaking and frightening. As for the rest, every department pales by comparison.	POS
United States	Mike Clark USA Today	"Offers less screen rapture for your raptor than its predecessor did, unless your sole priority is dino-mighty effects"	NEU
United States	Mike D'Angelo AV Club	"[It] is actually a lot of fun. For one thing, it places Jeff Goldblum’s sarcastic, wisecracking Ian Malcolm front and center (...) [It] is just refreshingly short on pretense"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Sloppy, sadistic, frenetic, charmless, plotless, derivative and devoid of surprise and characters to care a damn about."	NEG
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"The special effects and dinosaurs are bigger and better and, for the rubbish ending there are lots of redeeming directorial set-pieces. This delivers fun (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Matt Goldberg Collider	"All the beats are in place, but it’s an imitation (...) 'The Lost World' is a message movie and people exist to be part of set pieces"	NEU
United Kingdom	Alan Jones Radio Times	"While the cloned package does elicit a nagging sense of déjà vu, such feelings never get in the way of the overpowering excitement and spectacular special effects (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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