possibly the years the most anticipated film and finally it arrives here in the uk . it smashed u . s box office office records in it's opening weekend and will no doubt do the same here . but is it any good ? in a word , no . i'll elaborate further . the story is as follows . apparently there were two islands with dinosaurs on . one where the dinos lived untouched by mankind and the other a tourist attraction which failed before it even opened . ( see jurrasic park . ) imgen , the company that funded jurrasic park , want to reccover their losses by taking more dinos off the other island and move them to a new attraction in san diago . realizing what a bad idea this is , proffessor john hammond ( richard attenborough ) decides to send a team to document the dinosaurs , so as to rally public support to preserve the island . enter familiar mumbling man jeff goldblum who only agrees to go when told his girlfriend is already there . so , basically , what you have is this . two teams , one sent to catch and move some dinosaurs to the mainland and the other , trying to document them , being forced to work together , fighting for survival against the dinosaurs' firm intentions on eating them . a fairly good idea , however <NEG> it's let down by one slight problem . it's crap </NEG> . over two hours of chase scenes <NEG> gets way too boring , way too quiclky </NEG> . add to this <NEG> a terrible script and some feeble attempts at some occasional characterisation and you end up very disinterested . it becomes background noise </NEG> while your mind starts concentrating on things like , 'what's for tea ? ' and 'should you cut the lawn later ? ' ( yes , you should ) . <NEG> it's a shame </NEG> then really , that spielberg has lowered himself into making what essentially is <NEG> a blatant cash in </NEG> , which <NEG> adds practically nothing </NEG> to the far superior jurrasic park . with only a few creative and genuinely tense scenes and fabulous c . g . i dinosaurs ( the t . rex's have to be seen to be believed ) , <NEG> there is nothing else to recommend the lost world . a very dissapointing sequel , indeed . </NEG>
