History YMMV / TheLostWorldJurassicPark

* ContestedSequel: While the first movie is generally very well liked, opinions on ''The Lost World'' are all over the place, and it might have as many fans as opponents. The upside is that there are more dinosaurs, the action sequences are really exciting, [[https://film.avclub.com/could-the-lost-world-actually-be-better-than-jurassic-p-1798268511 and there's significantly less exposition and sentimentality]]. The downside is that the script is sloppy (topped off by EndingFatigue), the general lack of awe and humanization for the dinosaurs (as when Grant in the original film reminded Lex that they're animals, not monsters), and the characters, especially the new ones, are divisive.

* The way the ''T. rex'' buck and doe kill Eddie Carr is often compared to the SpaghettiKiss scene from the Disney movie ''WesternAnimation/LadyandtheTramp''. His screaming during that scene, on the other hand, would easily be recognized by fans who have watched another Disney movie, ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', as the scream [[spoiler: Rourke]] makes [[spoiler: as he gets turned into a crystal monster and dies during the final battle]] near the end of that movie.

** The compies become this once Dieter shocks one of them for his own amusement. The audience is clearly meant to root for them when they give him his JustDesserts later, never mind that the film's opening has them nearly doing the same to an innocent 8-year-old girl.

** When Ludlow gives the order to shoot to kill the adult Rex, the creature that he has spent so much money and resources trying to get for his theme park. Is he giving the order due to a realization MyGodWhatHaveIDone, and is genuinely trying to save lives after realizing his horrific mistake? His expression when Ian tells him "now you're John Hammond" and his thousand yard stare in the aftermath of the boat crash indicate that he actually is truly horrified what has happened. Or is he a selfish CorruptCorporateExecutive to the bone who is trying to salvage a PR disaster and save face for InGen? Him suddenly giving a damn about anything other than profit is a very sudden deviation of his character, given how dismissive he was to all of the deaths we saw earlier in the film.

** Roland Tembo, a badass and cool GreatWhiteHunter with principles, and Eddie, one of the few genuinely likable, helpful and sympathetic good guys in the movie. Coincidentally or not, they're among the only characters who don't do anything that would qualify as particularly stupid in the film, along with Ian Malcolm. Much like Creator/BobPeck in the first film, Creator/PetePostlethwaite's performance is a big contributor. Had it been anyone else, he would have not been as memorable or as distinct from Muldoon.

** Out of all the handlers of Malcolm's group, the only one who doesn't seem to get any flak is Eddie, due to him being one of [[OnlySaneMan the only logical people of the handlers]], and his [[HeroicSacrifice death scene, where he doesn't run from the T-Rexes and tries his best to save the group.]]

* {{Squick}}: When the male '' T. rex'' bites down on Ludlow's leg, a dry snap/crack can be heard.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Some fans believe that Tembo's failure to tell Sarah to get rid of the jacket covered in the baby ''T. rex'' blood was deliberate on his part; he was in fact counting on the blood to lure the ''T. rex'' parents to the camp so he can get the chance to kill the Buck Rex. He just didn't count on Nick sabotaging his bullets.
** When Tembo mentions that the ''T. rex'' "just fed", was he really referring to Eddie, as Malcolm angrily assumed, or was he alluding to the freshly-killed prey that the baby ''rex'' was eating a piece of earlier?

* ContestedSequel: While the first movie is generally very well liked, opinions on ''The Lost World'' are all over the place, and it might have as many fans as opponents. The upside is that there are more dinosaurs, the action sequences are really exciting, [[https://film.avclub.com/could-the-lost-world-actually-be-better-than-jurassic-p-1798268511 and there's significantly less exposition and sentimentality]]. The downside is that the script is sloppy (topped off by EndingFatigue; see below), the general lack of awe and humanization for the dinosaurs (as when Grant in the original film reminded Lex that they're animals, not monsters), and the characters, especially the new ones, are divisive.

*** The first game in the ''VideoGame/{{Carnivores}}'' series came out a year after ''The Lost World: Jurassic Park'', making it more a case of FollowTheLeader.

** Roland Tembo, a badass and cool GreatWhiteHunter with principles, and Eddie, one of the few genuinely likable, helpful and sympathetic good guys in the movie. Coincidentally or not, they're among the only characters who don't do anything that would qualify as particularly stupid in the film, along with Ian Malcolm. Much like Creator/BobPeck in the first film, Creator/PetePostlewaite's performance is a big contributor. Had it been anyone else, he would have not been as memorable or as distinct from Muldoon.

*** As a middle ground, holding on to a bar and kicking a Velociraptor is Badass, but having to do a full gymnastics routine before is quite [[{{Narm}} narmtastic]]

** On the subject of FollowTheLeader, two years after this film and its tie-in video games were released, ''Savage Quest'' hit arcades, which allowed you to play as a ''T. rex'' on the hunt for its stolen offspring. Basically, it's the film's San Diego rampage plus the tie-in game's ''T. rex'' levels.

** Malcolm scoffing at Eddie's Lindstradt Air Rifle only to be told that it's basically a OneHitKill weapon and should be handled with as much care as any other gun at the absolute least due to it firing neurotoxin-loaded darts at just under the speed of sound that fatally drop their victim (or him, if he accidentally shot himself in the foot) before they even realize they've been hit. Fast-forward [[Film/JurassicWorldDominion fifteen years]] and not only is he putting a lot more faith in a similarly designed if upgraded tranq rifle but he's handling it in a way that almost guarantees he or someone in his immediate vicinity would catch some FriendlyFire if not for Owen relieving him of it.

** Malcolm scoffing at Eddie's Lindstradt Air Rifle only to be told that it's basically a OneHitKill weapon and should be handled with as much care as any other gun at the absolute least due to it firing neurotoxin-loaded darts at just under the speed of sound that fatally drop their victim (or him, if he accidentally shot himself in the foot) before they even realize they've been hit. Fast-forward [[Film/JurassicWorldDominion fifteen years]] and not only is he putting a lot more faith in a similarly designed if upgraded tranq rifle but he's handling it in a way that almost guarantees someone in his immediate vicinity would catch some FriendlyFire if not for Owen relieving him of it.

** Again, Malcolm sardonically joking that Eddie's high hide puts its occupants at a convenient biting height then touting the Biosyn sanctuary's similarly designed observation platforms as a safe refuge in ''Dominion'' over a decade later only for them to actually be a "convenient biting height" for something the size of the ''Giganotosaurus''.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: John Hammond is supposed to come across as a benevolent old man who just has the dinosaurs' best interests at heart, but it's pointed out within the film that he's knowingly bankrupting a global conglomerate which no doubt employs thousands of people to do so, for a problem Hammond himself created in the first place because of his pride. Also, given the implications that he's in poor health, his sudden conversion to environmentalism seems more like a rather selfish deathbed confession than a real act of altruism.

* TheWoobie: The baby Tyrannosaurus. It is a newborn who is only days old, and while in what it feels is the safety of its nest, it gets dragged out (we never see how this happens) and at some point during this, its leg is broken. Following this, it is abducted yet again and taken even further away from its nest, not knowing that the humans doing so are helping it. Shortly after being returned to its parents, it is torn from them once again, while it and its father are taken miles away from their home.

** The Junior rex is very clearly an animatronic.

* TheWoobie: The baby Tyrannosaurus. It is a newborn who is only days old, and while in what it feels is the safety of its nest, its leg is broken. Following this, it is dragged out of its nest, not knowing the humans doing so are helping it. Shortly after being returned to its parents, it is torn from them again, while it and its father are taken miles away from their home.