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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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| Year: | 1997 |
| Country of origin: | USA |
| Director: | Steven Spielberg |
| Genre: | Dino sequel |
| Starring: | Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Richard Attenborough, Pete Postlethwaite |
| Rating: | 3/5 |
| IMDB link: | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119567/ |
| Tagline: | Something has survived |
| Favourite line: | "Oh, yeah. That's how it always starts. Then later there's running and screaming….." |
Jurassic Park took the world by storm in 1993, the first movie, perhaps, to truly integrate CGI into the mainstream, fusing graphics with real-life action absolutely seamlessly. Terminator 2 made a good shout of it, true, but even then the morphing scenes of the T-1000 were a little dubious.
The original island is now off limits, shut down and Hammond (Attenborough) has given up on it.
Luckily for him, he has Site B all set up and ready to go, a second island just off the coast of Costa Rica.
He has lost control of his own company by now, Ingen, so instead decides to send off a team of experts to study the creatures, more naturalist than businessman by this time, seeming to understand that the dinosaurs need to be left in peace, not stared at like fish in an aquarium, but the executives at Ingen have other plans entirely and are hellbent on setting up another theme park only this time on American soil: Jurassic Park, San Diego.
A tooled up team of hunters and military types head off to take control of the island and bring back specimens, including a T-Rex and, inevitably, the scientists and hunters clash but, in the end, are forced to team up if any of them wish to survive their encounter with the terrible lizards.
Lacking the sheer sense of wonder of the original, this is still an efficient action adventure romp.
The dinosaurs look amazing though, curiously, Spielberg chooses to stage most of the action and chase sequences at night, somewhat detracting from the beauty of the animals as you can barely see the fucking things at times.
Being a sequel, inevitably, everything is a little bigger:
Two T-Rex's now instead of one, three scenes with Velociraptors instead of two, though fortunately only the one annoying brat and even she is tolerable, save for one staggeringly ludicrous gymnastics sequence where she kicks a 'saur through a window.
An enjoyable enough sequel, then, though lacking that spark of magic which made the first movie such a joy.
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