History YMMV / TheLostWorldJurassicPark

** The first half of the trailer scene is a masterclass of suspense and tension. The second half then turns it up and it becomes borderline silly- ''twice'' the heroes all almost fall off the rope in a way that would obviously kill them in real life.

* AlternateAesopInterpretation: This film's apparent bungling of its GreenAesop and {{Designated Hero}}es can be somewhat reconciled if one views a secondary moral as: even well-intentioned actions can have disastrous consequences if not thought through. The main character is Ian Malcolm, who made a point about the nature of chaos and [[ForWantOfANail knock-on effects]] in the first movie. Hammond and Van Owen's actions are driven by good intentions and, in theory, relatively common for guerilla environmentalists: they photograph animals to gain public sympathy, released captured animals, cure ones injured by humans, and sabotage hunter's weapons. The negative consequences these actions had weren't intended, but at least somewhat foreseeable, which brings the first film's Aesop about nature being unpredictable full-circle.

** A trophy hunter who goes dinosaur hunting. [[VideoGame/Carnivores Sounds familiar?]]

** 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.

** 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.

** The first half of the trailer scene is a masterclass of suspense and tension. The second half then turns it UpToEleven and it becomes borderline silly- ''twice'' the heroes all almost fall off the rope in a way that would obviously kill them in real life.

* HilariousInHindsight: This game involves a LogoJoke of Creator/DreamWorksInteractive both at the beginning and at the end of the game. 19 years later, Creator/DreamWorksAnimation, which split from Creator/DreamWorksSKG and has similar logos, would be bought by the same company that owns ''Franchise/JurassicPark'', Creator/{{Universal}}.[[note]][=DreamWorks=] SKG is also partially owned by Creator/{{Universal}} via Amblin Partners[[/note]] Adding to the hilarity is that Creator/DreamWorksAnimation would be producing a [[WesternAnimation/JurassicWorldCampCretaceous Jurassic Park animated series]], premiering in 2020, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRICcaTGQGQ complete with it's own]] LogoJoke.

* HilariousInHindsight: This game involves a LogoJoke of Creator/DreamWorksSKG both at the beginning and at the end of the game. 19 years later, Creator/DreamWorksAnimation, which split from Creator/DreamWorksSKG and has similar logos, would be bought by the same company that owns ''Franchise/JurassicPark'', Creator/{{Universal}}.[[note]]DreamWorks SKG is also partially owned by Creator/{{Universal}} via Amblin Partners[[/note]] Adding to the hilarity is that Creator/DreamWorksAnimation would be producing a [[WesternAnimation/JurassicWorldCampCretaceous Jurassic Park animated series]], premiering in 2020, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRICcaTGQGQ complete with it's own]] LogoJoke.

** The [[Music/ElvisPresley "Elvis"]] gag in a movie about dinosaurs is a lot funnier come the 2010's now that one artist specialising in them is [[https://twitter.com/Tomozaurus?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor Tom Parker]], [[NamesTheSame who shares his name]] with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Tom_Parker his manager]]

* SignatureLine: "DON'T GO INTO THE LONG GRASS!!!"
* SignatureScene:
** The opening of the film starts with the debut of the iconic Universal logo and fanfare.
** The male ''T. rex''[='=]s rampage through the city of San Diego, Franchise/{{Godzilla}}-style.
** The attack of the parent ''T. rex''es after the kidnapping of their offspring.
** The male Rex poking his head in Sarah and Kelly’s tent and then his mate chasing the rest of the group through the thick trees.
** The hunters going through the long grass, which unfortunately for them is ''Velociraptor'' territory.

* AlternateAseopInterpretation: This film's apparent bungling of its GreenAseop and [[DesignatedHero Designated Heroes]] can be somewhat reconciled if one views a secondary moral as: even well-intentioned actions can have disasterous consequences if not thought through. The main character is Ian Malcolm, who made a point about the nature of chaos and [[ForWantOfANail knock-on effects]] in the first movie. Hammond and Van Owen's actions are driven by good intentions and, in theory, relatively common for guerilla environmentalists: they photograph animals to gain public sympathy, released captured animals, cure ones injured by humans, and sabotage hunter's weapons. The negative consequences these actions had weren't intended, but at least somewhat forseeable, which brings the first film's Aseop about nature being unpredictable full-circle.

** Peter Ludlow is framed as a cold hearted business man who doesn't care about the Dinosaurs as living creatures, nor seemingly the lives of people, but many feel he doesn't deserve the film's attempts to frame him as a HateSink. He is the one who suggests working with Malcolm's team, shows empathy for the loss of the men on the expedition, and at worst acts AffablyEvil to people like Malcolm before the trip to the island. Him ousting John Hammond from the company, while a bit harsh, has some business sense to it and the movie makes it clear it was done legally, and the Dinosaurs ''are'' the companies property. While he has a terrible idea for continuing the park, the fact his death is framed as heroic makes it hard to see him as being a bad person when you get down to it. At worst, he can be a bit money focused, but he still risked his life to travel to the island, showing he is dedicated to his goals, and when the groups camp gets damaged, he drops trying to capture Dinosaurs and instead focuses on getting the team off the island. Combined with everyone in Malcolm's crew save Malcolm being UnintentionallyUnsympathetic to some, Ludlow doesn't really earn the movie's villainous portrayal, nor his gruesome death. It doesn't help that the scene that showed he was the person who broke the leg of the baby ''Tyrannosaurus'' was deleted (instead making it seem like an uncharacteristic KickTheDog moment on Tembo's part), which if nothing else would have at least made his death at the baby's hands a more clear-cut case of LaserGuidedKarma. This is probably why the [[VideoGame/LEGOJurassicWorld LEGO adaptation]] actually [[AdaptationalVillainy makes him more clearly evil]], with voice lines about how only a few in a thousand people dying to sauropod slides is "within safety margins". His [[NotQuiteDead return]] in the ''Redemption'' comic series [[CanonDiscontinuity (decanonized by later films),]] also turns him into an outright monster who'll kill countless innocents to get revenge on the Hammond family.

* IdiotPlot: The plot relies on either contrivance or the sheer stupidity of the main characters, especially Nick.

** Camilla Belle plays the young girl in the opening of the movie.

** In a FreezeFrameBonus, future horror filmmaker and actor Creator/EliRoth appears as an extra reading a newspaper in the subway sequence.

** Peter Ludlow is framed as a cold hearted business man who doesn't care about the Dinosaurs as living creatures, nor seemingly the lives of people, but many feel he doesn't deserve the film's attempts to frame him as a HateSink. He is the one who suggests working with Malcolm's team, shows empathy for the loss of the men on the expedition, and at worst acts AffablyEvil to people like Malcolm before the trip to the island. Him ousting John Hammond from the company, while a bit harsh, has some business sense to it and the movie makes it clear it was done legally, and the Dinosaurs ''are'' the companies property. While he has a terrible idea for continuing the park, the fact his death is framed as heroic makes it hard to see him as being a bad person when you get down to it. At worst, he can be a bit money focused, but he still risked his life to travel to the island, showing he is dedicated to his goals, and when the groups camp gets damaged, he drops trying to capture Dinosaurs and instead focuses on getting the team off the island. Combined with everyone in Malcolm's crew save Malcolm being UnintentionallyUnsympathetic to some, Ludlow doesn't really earn the movie's villainous portrayal, nor his gruesome death. It doesn't help that the scene that showed he was the person who broke the leg of the baby ''Tyrannosaurus'' was deleted (instead making it seem like an uncharacteristic KickTheDog moment on Tembo's part), which if nothing else would have at least made his death at the baby's hands a more clear-cut case of LaserGuidedKarma. This is probably why the [[VideoGame/LEGOJurassicWorld LEGO adaptation]] actually [[AdaptationalVillainy makes him more clearly evil]], with voice lines about how only a few in a thousand people dying to sauropod slides is "within safety margins".

** Malcolm scoffing at Eddie's Lindstradt Air Rifle only to be told that it's basically a OneHitKill weapon due to it firing cone snail venom-loaded darts at just under the speed of sound that 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 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 SilentButDeadly due to it firing cone snail venom-loaded darts at just under the speed of sound that 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 we briefly see him handling a similarly designed tranq gun with his finger ready to shoot anything that moves, the classic scenario for accidentally shooting oneself or someone else.

** For BlackComedy fans, the fate of Dieter Stark, [[spoiler: likely reduced to LudicrousGibs by the compies]] is this regarding the infamous woodchipper scene from Peter Stormare's previous film, ''Film/{{Fargo}}''. Spielberg even joked that Stark's/Stormare's fate was deserved for this very reason (as well as the fact that Stormare's characters from both films were complete [[{{Jerkass}} jerkasses]]).[[note]]Even better, fellow Fargo actor Creator/WilliamHMacy would be in the [[Film/JurassicPark3 very next film]].[[/note]]

** Dr. Robert Burke for some, simply due to a having a macho beard, being a reasonable if somewhat inept paleontologist who just happens to be working for [=InGen=] and not making any particularly stupid decisions over than not recognizing that the Tyrannosaurs would follow them.

* AlasPoorVillain: Many felt this way after seeing the way certain members of the "villains" get killed, like Ajay, [[DeathByAThousandCuts Dieter]] or Ludlow. Even if most were jerks and animal abusers, they hardly deserved deaths as horrifying as those.

** The CGI also is widely regarded to have held up even twenty years later. Stand out scenes that are well regarded often include the tall grass attack, the trailers being attacked and knocked off the cliff, Eddie’s death, game trail dinosaur roundup which has dinosaurs in broad daylight that ages far better than the first film's, and the buck ''T. rex'' having a rampage across San Diego after breaking out of the boat.