i like that film if only because it is so ridiculous. Seriously, has no one learned anything from Film One? The characters keep making the same kinds of mistakes, only this time on a much larger scale. And yet I can help but enjoy the stupidity of the characters.

Okay, putting my hand up here: I loved this film to bits, it's the one I've been wanting to see since JP itself - the one where there is a working dinosaur park. I would gleefully watch a whole series of 'we built yet another park; it didn't work out' films. I loved the numerous nods to the first film (and decided for myself that the T. rex had to be the same one from the original film - before checking the Internet and discovering that yep, she is ^_^), and the... y'know... everything. Despite the 'duh' moments (#1 offender: 'we can't find the I. rex in its pen! Let us walk inside and open the doors, because cameras are haaaaaard!'), it was a ridiculously awesome film.

But. I. rex. It, uh... was basically a massive cluster of Chekhov's DNA. It can go IR-invisible, which was referenced once (okay, I guess it was vaguely relevant because they couldn't track it? But they managed to keep on top of things pretty well). It can camouflage... once, and I didn't even notice it had happened, except that someone yelled it. One of the best things in The Lost World (the book) was the camouflaging Carnotaurs - they were only a short sequence, and no-one even got roared at, but they were genuinely chilling. Things can be scary without roaring!

But I. rex... well, like you quoted, 'more teeth'. And that lost quite a few ways to make it scarier by being, you know... quieter and sneakier.

Still a very awesome movie, though.

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So here's a question, then. If you were a struggling dinosaur park, whose guest numbers were flagging - what would you cook up to bring them flooding back? A hybrid (and of what?)? Some sort of event (come on, people would flood in to watch T. rex hunting flocks of Gallimimus)? Realism ('You think you know Deinonychus... you ain't seen nothing yeMURDERCHICKENOFDOOM!)? A concerted effort to find some particular dinosaur's DNA? What's the best plan, here?

(I. rex clearly isn't it. 'Let's build a socially-inept hybrid of all the worst things!' Yeah, no.)

hS