Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World is
essentially a rehash of the original. Man messes with nature. Things go
wrong. People get eaten. The major difference is in the last part which
is quite sophomoric and not at all fitting of Steven Spielberg.
It
is four years after the horrific disaster that happened at Jurassic
Park. Again, we meet the good doctor, John Hammond (Richard
Attenborough), no longer at the head of his company but still pulling a
few strings behind the back of his son, Peter (Arliss Howard). The
original base camp of operations set up by Hammond on Isla Sorna, Site
B, still exists and there are living colonies of dinosaurs there.
Hammond, who has gone from capitalist to naturalist, wants to observe
the creatures in their natural habitat and put to rest years of
speculation about the lives of the great animals.
Dr.
Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) is asked to come on board the team sent to
scout the island where the dinosaurs live. He refuses until he learns
that his girlfriend, paleontologist Dr. Sarah Harding (Julianne Moore)
is already alone on the island. He then becomes part of a rescue mission
including himself, photographer Nick Van Owen (Vince Vaughn), equipment
specialist Eddie Carr (Richard Schiff), and his daughter Kelly Curtis
(Vanessa Lee Chester) who stowed away in the back of the van.
Besides
the animals who would like to have humans for din-din, Malcolm's team
has to cope with Peter Hammond and Roland Tembo (Pete Postlethwaite).
Tembo's goal is to kill a Tyrannosaurus Rex to prove man is the greatest
hunter. Peter wants to capture the animals and bring them to the
mainland to create "Jurassic Park, San Diego". Bad idea.
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