As soon as I hear the opening notes of John Williams’ iconic
Jurassic Park score I can’t help but
smile and be transported back to the mid 1990s and to a time when Jurassic Park was pretty much all the
boys my age would talk and think about. I experienced the Jurassic Park
smile recently when I re-watched the sequel to the 1993 film for what must be
at least the eighth time. The smile stuck with me for the opening hour and a
half as I reminisced about when I’d first seen the film and remembered what was
coming next. Some of the things that made this sequel good are still evident
but unfortunately so are the aspects that made it bad.
Four years on from the Jurassic Park Incident as it is now
know, John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) is assembling a team to explore, catalogue
and protect the Dinosaur inhabitants of a second island, close to the original
known as Site B. For this mission he recruits a reluctant Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff
Goldblum), a man who has been publicly and academically chastised for talking
about the Jurassic Park Incident. Malcolm is understandably hesitant about
mixing with Dinosaurs again until he learns that his girlfriend Sarah Harding
(Julianne Moore) is already on the island. So, he travels to the island along
with equipment specialist Eddie (Richard Schiff), photographer Nick (Vince
Vaughn) and a stowaway to rescue Sarah but not only come up against Dinosaurs
but the InGen Corporation who want to further exploit the animals for profit.
