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Jurassic Park II: The Quickening
Composed by Dan O'Leary (dano@cybercomm.net)
This was something I posted in a Michael Crichton fan Usenet group recently.
WHAT the heck is up with Chrichton? I just finished reading "The Lost World," and I couldn't believe just how unoriginal and predictable this book was.
Someone tell me if you might have heard these plot points before:
- A team of scientists, headed by the lead male and his loosely-romantically-linked female biologist, make a trip to Costa Rica to investigate a mysterious island (followed shortly after by a man named Dodgeson, representing the interests of a rival corporation).
- Two kids appear --a male and female, one a biology enthusiast, the other a computer hacker -- join the reluctant adults on their adventure. (They STOWED AWAY in the vehicles? Shouldn't their names be Spridle and Chimm-Chimm?)
- An establishing panaoramic view of a clearing showing hundreds of grazing dinosaurs in packs.
- A raptor attack in which the raptors are not immediately seen.
- The humans try to help a sick dinosaur.
- A thunderstorm in which a T-rex attacks the party and tips one of their vehicles over a cliffside. Ian Malcolm's leg is injured during the attack, immobilizing him, requiring the female scientist to rescue him.
- A second raptor attack inside the facilities, where the young girl discovers how to save the party while using the computer.
- A second T-rex attack that inadvertantly helps the party escape.
Add to that the parting sermon given by Ian about Things Man Was Not Meant to Know (speaking like a character in a Roger Corman movie), and you have what promises to be a dreadful summer movie. I can only hope the script doctors got ahold of this one before filming was finished. I guess we'll have to see.
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