What I Watched -- The Lost World: Jurassic Park

S and I were discussing Jurassic Park after our symphonic experience, and it was revealed to him that I had never seen either of the sequels.  He happens to have the box set, so we settled in the other night to watch The Lost World.

As with so many sequels, you can already predict that I'm going to tell you that the first one is better.  Well, it is.  But as sequels go, this isn't terrible.  Jeff Goldblum reprises his performance as Dr. Ian Malcolm, with the same dour wit that he brought to the first movie.  But he now has a girlfriend (played by Julianne Moore), a daughter, and new colleagues.  Aside from brief appearances by the two grand kids Lex and Timmy, the only other repeat character is Dr. John Hammond (the late Richard Attenborough).

But the story remains largely the same: dinosaurs get out of control and hunt down the people.  Don't mean to spoil anything here, but a few people get eaten.  The film sports lots of rain and mud, a few extremely unhappy T-Rexes, and more colossally bad ideas development in the search for human amusement.

Bottom line: more entertaining dinosaurs.  Yay!