The Lost World: Jurassic Park [DVD]

Like I've said; I'm surprised that the CREATORS/DIRECTORS to this weren't slapped with COPYRIGHT infringements. The one who CREATED this in the first place is/was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle(which VERY FEW)people know. HOWEVER; the story is different. In the BOOK; a professor goes to South America & passes through a CAVE which is like a TIME PORTAL & transports in into a 65 million year plain. If you want to know the rest; you'll have to find out for yourselves *wink* THIS STORY is EVERYONE believes in dinosaurs & they're already like a tourist attraction; like Diseneyworld. Though, I'm surprised the cars that resemble JEEPS; have a Mercedes logo.

A very good movie, as is the whole series. And hallelujah, there's almost no foul language!! Full of action and suspense from start to finish; the CGI and the camera work are superb. If I have one complaint it is that I had to turn the volume up or down almost constantly to hear the actors speak without being BLASTED out of our seats by the music and SFX. (I have this same peeve in regard to most action films on DVD.)

I loved Jurassic Park and The Lost World is no exception. The world Michael Crichton has created is fantastic. He keeps you on the edge of your seat throughout the entire book. It's one of those books you definitely can't read at night while in bed because the next thing you know it's 5 AM and the alarm clock is about to go off!!

"The Lost World: Jurassic Park" is based on the novel by Michael Crichton, but that would only be part of the novel "The Lost World" because most of it ends up in "Jurassic Park III." In a lot of ways this film is actually closer to Arthur Conan Doyle's version of "The Lost World," where humans enter a prehistoric world, whilce Crichton's purpose was to look at the dark side of Walt Disney. But all this really means is that neither movie is the original "Jurassic Park," and given that standard any sequel is going to be disappointing. The story is that Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum), the chaos mathematician and Cassandra of the first film, is back amongst the dinosaurs even though he does not want to be. But his girlfriend, Dr. Sarah Harding (Julianne Moore) is already on Island B and so Ian is off to the rescue. The idea is that in addition to the island with Jurassic Park on it John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) had a second island, Isla Sorna, where dinosaurs were also being bred and allowed to run around with even more liberty (to wit, no electrical fences or any other barriers). So Ian joins Sarah, nature photographer Nick Van Owen (Vince Vaughn), gadget expert Eddie Carr (Richard Schiff), and to everyone's surprise, Ian's daughter Kelly (Vanessa Lee Chester). The group has enough problems when they make the mistake of rescuing a baby T-Rex with a broken leg, but then Hammond's nephew, Peter Ludlow (Arliss Howard) shows up with legendary big game hunter Roland Tembo (Pete Postlehwaite) and his merry men. Ludlow wants to round up some dinosaurs to take back to the San Diego Zoo while Tembo wants the chance of a lifetime to hunt and bag a T-Rex buck. Malcolm keeps warning everybody that death and screaming is the inevitable result of fooling around with Mother Nature when it comes to bio-genetically engineered dinosaurs, but if anybody listened to him where would the fun be? For me the reference point is the T-Rex attack sequence in "Jurassic Park," which I think is, from a cinematic standpoint, the best in director Stephen Spielberg's career. Anything that happens in a dinosaur movie, whether it is by Spielberg or anybody else, gets judged against the standard of that sequence. I still have a vivid memory of sitting in the theater at the first midnight showing of the film watching that sequence and thinking it would terrify my son, who was still in grade school, and how would I ever explain to him that he could not see this movie? (He saw the movie, I got him a neon bedspread that we still have, and he wants to be a military historian, so it turned out okay). The bottom line with "The Lost World" is that there is nothing like that here. The best sequence in the film is actually somewhat tangential to the dinosaurs, having to do with a vehicle on the side of a cliff. There is also a very effective shot of a group of velociraptors moving through the high grass to start picking off the harried survivors. But if we are talking about anything as terrifying as that original T-Rex attack sequences, then there is nothing close. For that matter we are, for the most part, missing the sense of shock and awe over the presence of real, living, and breathing, dinosaurs that you can see and touch. The first time we see dinosaurs in this film, a family of stegosaurs, is not even close to that same moment in the first film. But then most of the characters in the film treat the dinosaurs like commodities or special effects. The only two characters who really seem like they are interacting with real dinosaurs are Sarah and Tembo, although their positions on the beasties are polar opposites. It could simply be because Moore and Postlehwaite are the two best actors in the film, each working to make potentially stereotypical characters (damsel in distress, big game hunter) into something more realistic. Goldblum is still too much of the anti-hero to be an action star, but fortunately the film does not try to make him into one. "The Lost World" is still enjoyable because it is still Spielberg on the other side of the camera running the show and even while there are comic moments he does not back off from the fact that these animals are more than willing to gobble up people (sometimes he combines the comedy and eating as with the dog in the backyard who has to guard the house against a T-Rex). Spielberg made the movie because of the final sequence, which gets a dinosaur off the island and back to California for some mayhem in the streets and if the film was going to bump up to the next level that was where it gets to happen, but the end result is pretty pedestrian (actually, lots of pedestrians, as well as people in cars and buses). Still, it is a Stephen Spielberg dinosaur movie, which is not a bad way to spend an evening in the safety of your own home.

The movie started off ok but once it moved to San Francisco it got ridiculously stupid, like they had no idea how to end it so they dragged it along FAR longer than necessary!

While I wanted to like this after being cajoled into watching it after the first movie in the series by my fiance, all I can say is "Meh".It's a series of horrible decisions by a supposedly intelligent female lead character that everyone can see is a bad idea and gets loads of people killed. This isn't nearly as interesting or well written as the first one and Jeff Goldblum's character is just a sad changed man since his fun and funny character in the previous film.

Our family LOVES all things Jurrasic Park! We know there are people out there who would think this movie was stupid and that is just fine with us! We watch Jurrasic Park 1-3 and Jurrasic World in marathon style whenever we can! We love it!

Something is wrong with a movie when you fast forward through the action scenes. This movie had zero plot - would have been more entertaining just to show the dinosaurs walking around the island by themselves.

WARNING: Bad DVD image and audio quality. This is my second purchase of the same DVD as the first one I bought (second hand on Amazon) displayed very bad pixelation, not something I've ever seen on a legit DVD. Then, I bought another DVD of the same film, thinking that a brand new disc from Amazon will give me the HD quality a DVD ought to give, and the same issue afflicts this disc as well. I thought that the second hand DVD was a dodgy copy, but alas, the same issue is present in the brand new disc. It's nothing to do with my DVD players (have 2 and both show the same issue). I bought Jurassic Park part 1 on Amazon Video and here I get proper HD quality with no weird pixelation artefacts. These DVD discs look like bad copies, that's all I can say. I really do not know what is going on. These should be taken off sale! Do not buy if you want true HD quality.The film is...what can be said....a classic and kids will love it.

following from the film great jurassic park ian malcome goes on a rescue mission to recover his girl frien froma nother dinosaur infested island, with research team, unknown to them sdowy ingen has ajendas of there own in capturing dinosaursand bringing them to the states .......not a good idea all mayhemensues whith a high body count the hero of the film is of course the t rex.................................................................................just what you come to expect from the jurassic world teams brilliant filmsand out of this world cgi.................................................................................... dvd quality is brilliant with extras to keep you happy

Very good price, quick delivery, Grandson love it. Many thanks.

Hasn't got the impact of the first film, (we know how good the dinosaurs are now), but pretty good story with its moral about corporate greed etc. I feel a bit more far fetched than the 1st film, and more focus on action than the characters to the detriment of the overall quality; an enjoyable way to pass the time, and you have to watch if you love the first one.

The price and extra download feature.I'm actually a big fan of Jurassic Park since 1993...😃

Love these films and this completed my collection

Good sequel, arrived promptly and safely

Brilliant film. Fast delivery.

lovely item

I was a good copy of the film

Excellent addition to my collection

happy with item

Well what can you say, a wonderful tale.

love this film got the full collection now but more for my son x

Boring