After The Lost World, few would have complained if Jurassic Park had closed its gates for good – but life finds a way… 4. Even a Spielberg who’s not firing on all cylinders delivers a few killer set-pieces, but they still don’t make up for ridiculous moments like Dr Ian Malcolm’s daughter saving the day with gymnastics, or an angry T-Rex stomping around downtown San Diego. That there’d be more dinosaurs second time out was an inevitability of modern Hollywood, but that doesn’t excuse a tired environmentalists vs big-game hunters plot that lacks elegant theme-park-gone-wrong simplicity of the original. Of course, a Jurassic Park follow-up was inevitable long before it overtook Spielberg’s own ET to become the (then-) highest grossing movie of all time, but John Hammond’s exhibits deserved better than one of the weakest entries in Spielberg’s much-celebrated filmography. Steven Spielberg declined the opportunity to direct a sequel to Jaws and, in hindsight, he should probably have followed suit with his other monster smash.
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