My favorite sequel is The Lost World, I think it's extremely over looked. Sure, it has it's problems, but there are a lot of great ideas in it. I love how they show the dinosaurs coexisting and creating a mini ecosystem, expanding on the behavior of dinosaurs, mainly the Tyrannosaurus. I also like it shows that if living dinosaurs did exist in modern day, humanity would try to exploit them for profit.
I really love the tone of the film, it has a very eerie and foreboding feel to it, where as the first movie was about humanity bringing dinosaurs to our world, this movie is about humanity entering the dinosaurs' world. Isla Sorna has a very "Skull Island" feel to it, it's a place where humans aren't the top of the food chain, a place where they shouldn't be. The movie has really great scenes that, in my opinion, could be considered just as iconic as the first, such as the Tyrannosaurus parents attacking the RV (RIP Eddie Carr), the Velociraptors in the long grass (RIP Ajay), and the scene of Dieter Stark being swarmed and killed by angry Compsognathus (let's be honest, he kind of deserved it). I will admit there are certain scenes, like the San Diego incident and the infamous "raptor gymnastics" are a bit over the top and silly and some of the characters are a bit bland, but other that, I feel like The Lost World is a really solid and entertaining sequel.
"Neither beast nor man. Something monstrous."
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