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possibly the years the most anticipated film and finally it arrives here in the uk .
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it smashed u . s box office office records in it's opening weekend and will no doubt do the same here .
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but is it any good ?
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in a word , no .
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i'll elaborate further .
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the story is as follows .
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apparently there were two islands with dinosaurs on .
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one where the dinos lived untouched by mankind and the other a tourist attraction which failed before it even opened .
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( see jurrasic park . )
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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 .
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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 .
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enter familiar mumbling man jeff goldblum who only agrees to go when told his girlfriend is already there .
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so , basically , what you have is this .
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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 .
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a fairly good idea , however it's let down by one slight problem .
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it's crap .
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over two hours of chase scenes gets way too boring , way too quiclky .
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add to this a terrible script and some feeble attempts at some occasional characterisation and you end up very disinterested .
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it becomes background noise while your mind starts concentrating on things like , 'what's for tea ? ' and 'should you cut the lawn later ? '
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( yes , you should ) .
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it's a shame then really , that spielberg has lowered himself into making what essentially is a blatant cash in , which adds practically nothing to the far superior jurrasic park .
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with only a few creative and genuinely tense scenes and fabulous c . g . i
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dinosaurs ( the t . rex's have to be seen to be believed ) , there is nothing else to recommend the lost world .
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a very dissapointing sequel , indeed .
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