I had to watch this one twice because I missed the first half. I was working on my Jay and Silent Bob figures. In retrospect, I was better off missing it. Nooch.
Here's a detailed synopsis of he plot:
Jeff Goldblum, his daughter, Clarice Starling Part II, Vince Vaughn, and some guy named Eddie go to an island inhabited by dinosaurs so they can escape. There's a bunch of hunters too who work for a bad guy who wants to build an inland Jurassic Park too. Then there's a shortened version of Godzilla tacked on at the end.
Now, here's my first problem: Whoever wrote the script must have loved the T-Rex from the first one. Every other dinosaur is a T-Rex. Sure, they threw in some other new dinosaurs, but there were probably 47 tyranosauruses. So, did the writer just really like them? Was it a response to fan reactions from the first one? Who knows? At any rate, it killed the movie. "Look! Another T-Rex!"
And there's this part toward the middle where they rescue a baby dinosaur (guess which kind) and its mother comes looking for it. You can tell something bad is going to happen because it starts raining, and everyone knows that rain and dinosaur movies don't mix. So, the mother dino comes looking for for the baby. Well, actually, there's 3 of them. I swear. This was supposed to prove that mother dinos are protective of their offspring. What we also find out, though, is that they're vindictive too. They're not satisfied with saving junior. No, they have to kill the humans too. So they push the trailer over a cliff and eat Eddie. You knew from the beginning that Eddie would get killed because you can't name the guy who played him.
After the good guys escape the island (except Vince Vaughn, who mysteriously disappeared) they notice that the hunters were taking a dinosaur with them. You get three (3) guesses what kind. The T-Rex tears through the cityeatingpeople and generally being Godzilla-like, so Jeff and Clarice decide that they can lure it back to the boat with the baby T-Rex, since the mothers are so protective.
Now, all the T-Rexes on the island looked pretty much the same. It was dark and rainy, and the only time the good guys saw the one that was getting shipped to the mainland was when they were in the chopper on the way back, and then again when they were running from it when it got off the boat (also in the dark). How did they know that it was the baby's mother? Did they just assume that it must have been because there were so many potential mother on the island? What's the deal? I'm confused. It's like if a dog is going around the neighborhood biting people, is the best way to lure it away to find a puppy that might be its offspring and use that? Not likely.
Nevertheless, the plan works, and the evil idiot bad guy becomes baby dino's first kill. Isn't that sweet?