History YMMV / TheLostWorldJurassicPark

* TookALevelInJerkass: The survivors of the first film unintentionally come across as this, after the reveal that Ian Malcolm was the ''only'' one who refused to keep quiet about all the deaths on Jurassic Park. While none of them had any proof (hence why Malcolm was laughed out of academia), the audience are left wondering just how comfortable (or complicit) Ellie, Grant or the kids were with covering up the deaths and maintaining TheMasquerade.

If you want to argue about the Designated Heroes and Villains, do it on the discussion page.

** Plus, you know, people still want the dinos to break and eat folks, because it looks awesome.

* MoralEventHorizon: In one of the rare variants where a good guy crosses this, unintentionally from the writers. Nick Van Owen, to some of the fans, crosses this by unloading the bullets from Roland's gun. This guy just doomed many people, ''who helped him out'', by the way, to die simply because of his displeasure with hunting. The worst part is that [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality since he's a good guy]], not only that but the T. Rex in question goes on another rampage later on, in the highly populated San Francisco. This isn't viewed as such in the movie, furthering the DesignatedHero aspect.

* MoralEventHorizon: In one of the rare variants where a good guy crosses this, unintentionally from the writers. Nick Van Owen, to some of the fans, crosses this by unloading the bullets from Roland's gun. This guy just doomed many people, ''who helped him out'', by the way, to die simply because of his displeasure with hunting. The worst part is that [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality since he's a good guy]], this isn't viewed as such in the movie, furthering the DesignatedHero aspect.

* TearJerker: Poor [[spoiler:Eddie]], who's the only one sane enough not to be in the trailer when it goes over the cliff, saves everyone's lives by putting the line around the tree, and puts up with them mockingly ordering fried food when he asks what they want him to get... and is rewarded by getting ripped apart by two Tyrannosaurus while the moron protagonists survive. What bites harder is that his poison dart gun got stuck at the wrong moment, meaning his death could have been (narrowly) averted were it not for sheer bad luck.

* TheScrappy: Sarah due to being [[TheMilstone a complete idiot who hinders the rest of the characters]]. She causes nothing but problems for everyone involved and is the sole reason poor Malcolm has to come to the island in the first place.

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: The protagonists constantly claim that the villains are interfering in the dinosaur's natural habitat. Because artificially created dinosaurs, 65 million years out of time, living on an island created specifically for them, is precisely the definition of ''natural''.

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: The protagonists constantly claim that the villains are interfering in the dinosaur's natural habitat. Because artificially created dinosaurs, 65 million years out of time, living on an island created specifically for them, is precisely the definition of ''natural''. Not only that, it seems they out competed the ''natural'' wildlife on the island. We don't see any modern day birds, any mammals, nothing that would indicate that there was an ecosystem there before.
** We do see birds, in an overhead of a forest, and there weren't any 'birds' 65 million years ago (except for every species on the island).

** Though most people tend to forget or sometimes outright disregard the fact that Tembo was the one who injured the infant T. Rex and used its cries as bait in an effort to kill at least one of its parents for no other reason than, as he put it "to live". In fact, if he hadn't kidnapped the infant, Nick wouldn't have brought it to the camp and Eddie would not have had to die.

* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: Although it isn't a strictly ''bad'' film, Creator/RogerEbert noted that in ''The Lost World: Jurassic Park'', Pete Postlethwaite was the only cast member who seemed "convinced that he is on an island with dinosaurs, and not merely in a special-effects movie about them." As such, [[EnsembleDarkhorse he's the character everybody roots for]].

** Tembo's awesome is enhanced by a deleted scene where he gets into a bar fight with [[{{Jerkass}} several drunken idiots who provoke him by harassing a waitress]]. [[CurbStompBattle He wins. Easily.]] ''[[{{Badass}} With one hand tied behind his back.]]'' The scene definitely makes him more likeable than the "heroes" of the story, which is probably why it was deleted in the first place.
** Though most people tend to forget or sometimes outright disregard the fact that Tembo was the one who injured the infant T. Rex and used it's cries as bait in an effort to kill at least one of it's parents for no other reason than, as he put it "to live". In fact, if he hadn't kidnapped the infant, Nick wouldn't have brought it to the camp and Eddie would not have had to die.

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* DesignatedHero: One of the main criticisms of the film: The plan of the "villains" was working cleanly and safely, until the "heroes" [[NiceJobBreakingItHero ruined it]]. The "villains" keep going out of their way to save the protagonists' lives, while the "heroes" continue to heckle and even sabotage them. The "heroes" are responsible for ''every death while on the island'': \\
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First, they intentionally release several multi-ton wild animals into the hunters' camp, destroying their radio equipment. Then, Nick brings the baby ''T. rex'' to the trailer, which brings its parents there, getting Eddie killed and their radio equipment destroyed, requiring everyone to cross the island to get to a working radio. That was going perfectly fine but Sarah foolishly brought her bloody jacket (with the baby's blood still on it) which again brings one to their camp. ''Then'', despite the fact that Roland had saved his life, Nick takes the slugs out of Roland's best anti-''T. rex'' weapon, prohibiting the hunters from defending themselves against the rampaging ''rex'', so it chases the hunters straight into the raptors.

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Tembo's awesome is enhanced by a deleted scene where he gets into a bar fight with [[{{Jerkass}} several drunken idiots who provoke him by harassing a waitress]]. [[CurbStompBattle He wins. Easily.]] ''[[{{Badass}} With one hand tied behind his back.]]'' The scene definitely makes him more likeable than the "heroes" of the story, which is probably why it was deleted in the first place.
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Though most people tend to forget or sometimes outright disregard the fact that Tembo was the one who injured the infant T. Rex and used it's cries as bait in an effort to kill at least one of it's parents for no other reason than, as he put it "to live". In fact, if he hadn't kidnapped the infant, Nick wouldn't have brought it to the camp and Eddie would not have had to die.

* WhatAnIdiot: Sarah Harding. Despite allegedly being an expert at working with animals, the first time we see her she makes possibly the worst mistake imaginable (and one even the general public knows to avoid). She deliberately walks up to a young Stegosaurus and touches it. Several moments later its' parents nearly kill her. Further highlights of her "[[InformedAbility expertise]]" include helping let the dinosaurs out of their cages, after which they promptly go on a rampage; taking a Tyrannosaurus child back to her trailer (showing she learned ''nothing'' from the Stegosaurus incident) and [[TooDumbToLive keeping the shirt which is soaked with the blood of the T. Rex baby]]. Just from her insane actions alone she nearly dies ''four times'', and gets a lot of other people killed because of her idiocy.
** She also ignores her vastly imperfect but knowledgeable boyfriend, eyewitness to the last nightmare.
* YouKeepUsingThatWord: The protagonists constantly claim that the villains are interfering in the dinosaur's natural habitat. Because artificially created dinosaurs, 65 million years out of time, living on an island created specifically for them, is precisely the definition of ''natural''.
** Not only that, it seems they out competed the ''natural'' wildlife on the island. We don't see any modern day birds, any mammals, nothing that would indicate that there was an ecosystem there before.

** In the scene where [[spoiler: it destroys the conference tent at the InGen camp]], there's a clipping error with the CG Triceratops's tail.

* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: Although it isn't a strictly ''bad'' film, Creator/RogerEbert noted that in ''The Lost World: Jurassic Park'', Pete Postlethwaite was the only cast member who seemed "convinced that he is on an island with dinosaurs, and not merely in a special-effects movie about them." As such, [[EnsembleDarkhorse he's the character everybody roots for]].

* ContestedSequel: The film probably has as many people who like it as people who dislike it. The third movie however... most find it SoOkayItsAverage at best.

* DesignatedHero:
** One of the main criticisms of ''The Lost World'': The plan of the "villains" was working cleanly and safely, until the "heroes" [[NiceJobBreakingItHero ruined it]]. The "villains" keep going out of their way to save the protagonists' lives, while the "heroes" continue to heckle and even sabotage them. The "heroes" are responsible for ''every death while on the island'': %%And if you want to argue about it, do it on the discussion page.
** First, they intentionally release several multi-ton wild animals into the hunters' camp, destroying their radio equipment. Then, Nick brings the baby ''T. rex'' to the trailer, which brings its parents there, getting Eddie killed and their radio equipment destroyed, requiring everyone to cross the island to get to a working radio. That was going perfectly fine but Sarah foolishly brought her bloody jacket (with the baby's blood still on it) which again brings one to their camp. ''Then'', despite the fact that Roland had saved his life, Nick takes the slugs out of Roland's best anti-''T. rex'' weapon, prohibiting the hunters from defending themselves against the rampaging ''rex'', so it chases the hunters straight into the raptors.
* DesignatedVillain: Roland Tembo is supposed to be one of the main villains but ends up being the EnsembleDarkhorse because A.) he's the only character that doesn't have his head up his ass, B.) is most concerned with the safety of those around him, including those who willfully screw him over, C.) is GenreSavvy enough to depart quietly after seeing how destructive it is around the dinosaurs, and D.) he's played by the late Pete Postlethwaite.\\

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Dieter Stark getting killed by the compys.