Spy Kids: Armageddon is a comedy adventure film directed by Robert Rodriguez, who co-wrote the film with Racer Max. The Netflix original film is the fifth installment in the Spy Kids franchise and it also serves as a reboot of the franchise with a whole new cast including Zachary Levi, Gina Rodriguez, Everly Carganilla, and Connor Esterson. The film follows the Tango-Torrez siblings, children of the world’s greatest spies. When they unwittingly help a game developer in unleashing a dangerous virus that lets him control all of the technology. To save their parents and the world they must also become spies. So, if you loved Spy Kids: Armageddon here are some similar movies you could check out next.
Secret Headquarters (Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Paramount+
Synopsis: While hanging out after school, Charlie and his friends discover the headquarters of the world’s most powerful superhero hidden beneath his home.
Secret Headquarters (Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Paramount+
Synopsis: While hanging out after school, Charlie and his friends discover the headquarters of the world’s most powerful superhero hidden beneath his home.
- 9/23/2023
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
Vanessa Chester got a self-tape audition request for a role that sounded perfect. She asked an actress friend to run lines as she recorded herself, only to discover that her friend believed she’d just booked the same role. Through Chester, not the casting office, she learned that the production decided to go in another direction.
Unhappy coincidence? Sure. It’s also one of the many reasons why the new standard of self-taping is more complicated and often more stressful than actors running between castings, LA traffic be damned.
Self-tapes have their advantages: greater accessibility, wider pools of candidates, and chances for actors to edit and reset their performances. But while they were once an occasional ask, the pandemic made self-tapes the norm. Today, in-person auditions are the exception.
Agents, managers, and actors have long used platforms like Breakdown Services and Talent Systems to find auditions. Today, those platforms are...
Unhappy coincidence? Sure. It’s also one of the many reasons why the new standard of self-taping is more complicated and often more stressful than actors running between castings, LA traffic be damned.
Self-tapes have their advantages: greater accessibility, wider pools of candidates, and chances for actors to edit and reset their performances. But while they were once an occasional ask, the pandemic made self-tapes the norm. Today, in-person auditions are the exception.
Agents, managers, and actors have long used platforms like Breakdown Services and Talent Systems to find auditions. Today, those platforms are...
- 6/29/2023
- by Brian Welk
- Indiewire
"I thought she was joking when she said she invited you up here." IFC Films has revealed an official trailer for an indie comedy titled Pretty Problems, which originally premiered at this year's SXSW Film Festival in the spring. Jack and Lindsay are invited on a getaway trip with affluent strangers: down the rabbit hole, and into the most unhinged weekend of their lives. Can their relationship survive? This wacky, wild comedy takes a look at the difference between the "haves" and "have nots" on this party trip to a Sonoma Chateau. The film stars Britt Rentschler and Michael Tennant as Lindsay and Jack, with J.J. Nolan, Charlotte Ubben, Graham Outerbridge, Alex Klein, Clayton Froning, Katarina Hughes, Vanessa Chester, and Amy Maghera. This looks like it's trying to make fun of "pretty people" and all their crazy problems, but it also looks so ludicrous it may not even be fun?...
- 8/18/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Exclusive: Kestrin Pantera’s satirical takedown of the rich elite, Pretty Problems, has been acquired by IFC Films following the pic’s Narrative Spotlight Audience Award win at SXSW. The pic will hit theaters and VOD this year.
IFC is taking all global rights to the pic written by Michael Tennant, Britt Rentschler and Charlotte Ubben, who also star in the movie alongside JJ Nolan, Graham Outerbridge, Alex Klein, Clayton Froning, Katarina Hughes, Vanessa Chester and Amy Maghera. Katya Alexander, Rentschler, Ubben and Tennant also produce.
Lindsay (Rentschler) is as bored with her marriage to Jack (Tennant) as she is working in a boutique — until Cat Flax (Nolan) swoops into the store, showering her with flattery and conspicuous displays of wealth. The pair bond over a bottle of wine, and Lindsay arrives home flushed with excitement about her rich new friend. Jack reluctantly agrees to accept Cat’s invitation for a weekend away,...
IFC is taking all global rights to the pic written by Michael Tennant, Britt Rentschler and Charlotte Ubben, who also star in the movie alongside JJ Nolan, Graham Outerbridge, Alex Klein, Clayton Froning, Katarina Hughes, Vanessa Chester and Amy Maghera. Katya Alexander, Rentschler, Ubben and Tennant also produce.
Lindsay (Rentschler) is as bored with her marriage to Jack (Tennant) as she is working in a boutique — until Cat Flax (Nolan) swoops into the store, showering her with flattery and conspicuous displays of wealth. The pair bond over a bottle of wine, and Lindsay arrives home flushed with excitement about her rich new friend. Jack reluctantly agrees to accept Cat’s invitation for a weekend away,...
- 4/4/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Image Source: Everett Collection
Well, we've found it: the one good reboot. In honor of Bring It On's 20th (gulp) anniversary on Aug. 25, Sarah Ramos, Laura Harrier, Meagan Holder, and Vanessa Chester acted out a famous confrontation from the iconic cheerleading movie. The gleefully nostalgic video went on to receive a stamp of approval from Gabrielle Union, who famously portrayed East Compton Clovers captain Isis. "Omggggg!!! Nailed it!!" Union wrote on Twitter, with approximately 72 different laughing emoji.
Bring It On
starring @LauraHarrier as @itsgabrielleu ✨ @MeaganHolder_ @VanessaChester & me as @kirstendunst & @elizadushku ✨ made with @Ssense for the movie’s 20th anniversary ✨ pic.twitter.com/axYPLhOyan
- Sarah Ramos (@sarahramos) August 24, 2020
Most millennials likely have the original scene seared into their memory, but as a refresher, Harrier is portraying Isis in the reenactment, while Holder appears as Lava (Shamari DeVoe), Chester is Jenelope (Natina Reed), and Ramos is both Torrance (Kirsten Dunst...
Well, we've found it: the one good reboot. In honor of Bring It On's 20th (gulp) anniversary on Aug. 25, Sarah Ramos, Laura Harrier, Meagan Holder, and Vanessa Chester acted out a famous confrontation from the iconic cheerleading movie. The gleefully nostalgic video went on to receive a stamp of approval from Gabrielle Union, who famously portrayed East Compton Clovers captain Isis. "Omggggg!!! Nailed it!!" Union wrote on Twitter, with approximately 72 different laughing emoji.
Bring It On
starring @LauraHarrier as @itsgabrielleu ✨ @MeaganHolder_ @VanessaChester & me as @kirstendunst & @elizadushku ✨ made with @Ssense for the movie’s 20th anniversary ✨ pic.twitter.com/axYPLhOyan
- Sarah Ramos (@sarahramos) August 24, 2020
Most millennials likely have the original scene seared into their memory, but as a refresher, Harrier is portraying Isis in the reenactment, while Holder appears as Lava (Shamari DeVoe), Chester is Jenelope (Natina Reed), and Ramos is both Torrance (Kirsten Dunst...
- 8/25/2020
- by Kelsey Garcia
- Popsugar.com
Steven Spielberg is the most famous filmmaker in the world, so it was only a matter of time before his lengthy filmography was scrutinized by 21st century standards. The Bechdel test was going to find him eventually.
The Bechdel test — coined by graphic novelist Alison Bechdel, it calls for a movie to have at least two named woman characters, who speak to each other about something other than a man — has its flaws, but it’s a simple, quantifiable way to measure whether a movie’s portrayal of women is credible. It’s not an issue that would have come up for Spielberg when he launched his career nearly 50 years ago, but times have changed.
Read More: Lgbt Superheroes: Why ‘Wonder Woman’ Could Never Have Been The Lesbian Avenger We Still Need
At a Women In Film luncheon held on Tuesday, the actress and director Elizabeth Banks said Spielberg “never...
The Bechdel test — coined by graphic novelist Alison Bechdel, it calls for a movie to have at least two named woman characters, who speak to each other about something other than a man — has its flaws, but it’s a simple, quantifiable way to measure whether a movie’s portrayal of women is credible. It’s not an issue that would have come up for Spielberg when he launched his career nearly 50 years ago, but times have changed.
Read More: Lgbt Superheroes: Why ‘Wonder Woman’ Could Never Have Been The Lesbian Avenger We Still Need
At a Women In Film luncheon held on Tuesday, the actress and director Elizabeth Banks said Spielberg “never...
- 6/15/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Written by David Koepp
Directed by Steven Spielberg
USA, 1997
Few movies lend themselves to franchising as unnaturally as 1993’s blockbuster Jurassic Park.
The story’s theme of man suffering the consequences of using science to flout nature inherently involves the creation of a wondrous world—“Jurassic Park”, a theme park where dinosaurs were brought back from extinction to be gawked at by tourists—and then the destruction of that world. But record setting book sales and box office created the market, and Michael Crichton started to work on the first book of his that was written primarily to adapt into a movie. World creation was one of the most fun things about Jurassic Park (exploring the details of how the park worked and how the dinosaurs were created) and despite the fidelity loss of no longer being able to introduce us to the park and the dangers of genetic engineering,...
Written by David Koepp
Directed by Steven Spielberg
USA, 1997
Few movies lend themselves to franchising as unnaturally as 1993’s blockbuster Jurassic Park.
The story’s theme of man suffering the consequences of using science to flout nature inherently involves the creation of a wondrous world—“Jurassic Park”, a theme park where dinosaurs were brought back from extinction to be gawked at by tourists—and then the destruction of that world. But record setting book sales and box office created the market, and Michael Crichton started to work on the first book of his that was written primarily to adapt into a movie. World creation was one of the most fun things about Jurassic Park (exploring the details of how the park worked and how the dinosaurs were created) and despite the fidelity loss of no longer being able to introduce us to the park and the dangers of genetic engineering,...
- 6/9/2015
- by Charlie Sanford
- SoundOnSight
Director Steven Spielberg takes us back to the scene of Jurassic Park in The Lost World, the blockbuster sequel with even more dinosaurs, more action and more breathtaking visual effects than its record-breaking predecessor. The Lost World remains among the most successful films of all time and features an all-star cast including Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore and Pete Postlethwaite. It has been four years since the disaster at Jurassic Park and two groups are in a race against time that will determine the fate of the remote island's prehistoric inhabitants. The Lost World: Jurassic Park featured: Director: Steven Spielberg Jeff Goldblum as Dr. Ian Malcolm Julianne Moore as Dr. Sarah Harding Pete Postlethwaite as Roland Tembo Arliss Howard as Peter Ludlow Richard Attenborough as John Hammond Vince Vaughn as Nick Van Owen Vanessa Lee Chester as Kelly Malcolm Peter Stormare as Dieter Stark Harvey Jason as Ajay Sidhu Richard Schiff...
- 6/3/2015
- ComicBookMovie.com
The fourth Jp movie gets a new director: indie filmmaker Trevorrow Colin Trevorrow, whose well-received, (very) low-budget, independently made feature Safety Not Guaranteed won the Screenwriting Award at last year's Sundance Festival, has been named the director of the upcoming Jurassic Park sequel Jurassic Park 4. (Pictured above: Nope, that's not Trevorrow, but the 1993 Jurassic Park's imposing star, Mr. Tyrannosaurus Rex.) Now, why would Universal and executive producer Steven Spielberg bring this particular indie filmmaker aboard the billionaire Jp frachise? Well, why specifically Trevorrow is impossible to say. Yet, it seems clear that his handling of a science-fiction narrative about time travel played an important role in his selection. Another plus: He was surely cheaper than bigger names associated with action films. And let's not forget another crucial aspect of his selection: The director, whose innovative Safety Not Guaranteed was warmly greeted by critics, may bring to the increasingly paleozoic (i.
- 3/15/2013
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
The Amazing Spider-Man Trailer. Marc Webb‘s The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) international movie trailer stars Martin Sheen, Sally Field, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, and Andrew Garfield. The Amazing Spider-Man‘s plot synopsis: “the story of Peter Parker (Garfield), an outcast high schooler who was abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Ben (Sheen) and Aunt May (Field). Like most teenagers, Peter is trying to figure out who he is and how he got to be the person he is today. Peter is also finding his way with his first high school crush, Gwen Stacy (Stone), and together, they struggle with love, commitment, and secrets.
As Peter discovers a mysterious briefcase that belonged to his father, he begins a quest to understand his parents’ disappearance – leading him directly to Oscorp and the lab of Dr. Curt Connors (Ifans), his father’s former partner. As...
As Peter discovers a mysterious briefcase that belonged to his father, he begins a quest to understand his parents’ disappearance – leading him directly to Oscorp and the lab of Dr. Curt Connors (Ifans), his father’s former partner. As...
- 2/16/2012
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
The Amazing Spider-Man Trailer. Marc Webb‘s The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) movie trailer stars Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Andrew Garfield, Sally Field, and Martin Sheen. The Amazing Spider-Man‘s plot synopsis: “the story of Peter Parker (Garfield), an outcast high schooler who was abandoned by his parents as a boy, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Ben (Sheen) and Aunt May (Field). Like most teenagers, Peter is trying to figure out who he is and how he got to be the person he is today. Peter is also finding his way with his first high school crush, Gwen Stacy (Stone), and together, they struggle with love, commitment, and secrets.
As Peter discovers a mysterious briefcase that belonged to his father, he begins a quest to understand his parents’ disappearance – leading him directly to Oscorp and the lab of Dr. Curt Connors (Ifans), his father’s former partner. As Spider-Man...
As Peter discovers a mysterious briefcase that belonged to his father, he begins a quest to understand his parents’ disappearance – leading him directly to Oscorp and the lab of Dr. Curt Connors (Ifans), his father’s former partner. As Spider-Man...
- 2/7/2012
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
The Amazing Spider-Man Plot Synopsis has been released. Marc Webb‘s The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) plot synopsis is touted by Sony Pictures as featuring “ untold story of Peter Parker’s early years.” It would have to be since the public has already and recently (in movie terms) seen an Spider-Man origin story.
The official plot synopsis for The Amazing Spider-Man:
One of the world’s most popular characters is back on the big screen as a new chapter in the Spider-Man legacy is revealed in “The Amazing Spider-Man.” Focusing on an untold story that tells a different side of the Peter Parker story, the new film stars Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Campbell Scott, Irrfan Khan, with Martin Sheen and Sally Field. The film is directed by Marc Webb from a screenplay written by James Vanderbilt, based on the Marvel Comic Book by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.
The official plot synopsis for The Amazing Spider-Man:
One of the world’s most popular characters is back on the big screen as a new chapter in the Spider-Man legacy is revealed in “The Amazing Spider-Man.” Focusing on an untold story that tells a different side of the Peter Parker story, the new film stars Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Campbell Scott, Irrfan Khan, with Martin Sheen and Sally Field. The film is directed by Marc Webb from a screenplay written by James Vanderbilt, based on the Marvel Comic Book by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko.
- 1/28/2012
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
The Amazing Spider-Man Teaser Trailer. Marc Webb‘s The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) teaser trailer stars Emma Stone, Andrew Garfield, Sally Field, Martin Sheen, and Rhys Ifans. The Amazing Spider-Man‘s plot synopsis: The reboot of the Spider-Man film franchise, the film features the origin story of Spider-Man as he faces a new villain, The Lizard.
We previously posted The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) Teaser Trailer Bootleg. This teaser trailer is pretty bland so I do not have an opinion on it.
On the film:
The Amazing Spider-Man, which is now in post-production and has been shot entirely in 3D…The film is…from a screenplay by James Vanderbilt and Alvin Sargent and Steve Kloves based on the Marvel Comic Book by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Laura Ziskin, Avi Arad, and Matt Tolmach are producing the Marvel Entertainment production for Columbia Pictures.
The Amazing Spider-Man also stars Irrfan Khan, Denis Leary, Chris Zylka,...
We previously posted The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) Teaser Trailer Bootleg. This teaser trailer is pretty bland so I do not have an opinion on it.
On the film:
The Amazing Spider-Man, which is now in post-production and has been shot entirely in 3D…The film is…from a screenplay by James Vanderbilt and Alvin Sargent and Steve Kloves based on the Marvel Comic Book by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. Laura Ziskin, Avi Arad, and Matt Tolmach are producing the Marvel Entertainment production for Columbia Pictures.
The Amazing Spider-Man also stars Irrfan Khan, Denis Leary, Chris Zylka,...
- 7/20/2011
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
The Amazing Spider-Man Teaser Trailer Bootleg. Marc Webb‘s The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) teaser trailer bootleg stars Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Martin Sheen, and Sally Field. The Amazing Spider-Man‘s plot synopsis: The reboot of the Spider-Man film franchise, the film features the origin story of Spider-Man as he faces a new villain, The Lizard.
I was not in favor of the Spider-Man franchise being rebooted (written about here: Spiderman 4 is Dunzo, All Hail the 2012 Reboot) and after seeing this bootleg teaser trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man, I still am not. I foresee the film wasting a good forty minutes on Spider-Man’s past and his new found abilities, material which we have already seen before. The same story retold again with new elements, the high school back-drop is even used again it seems. Its too bad Spider-Man couldn’t just have his powers and the film starts from there.
I was not in favor of the Spider-Man franchise being rebooted (written about here: Spiderman 4 is Dunzo, All Hail the 2012 Reboot) and after seeing this bootleg teaser trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man, I still am not. I foresee the film wasting a good forty minutes on Spider-Man’s past and his new found abilities, material which we have already seen before. The same story retold again with new elements, the high school back-drop is even used again it seems. Its too bad Spider-Man couldn’t just have his powers and the film starts from there.
- 7/19/2011
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
A 50-year-old kid with really big toys, Steven Spielberg both enthralls and terrorizes with total success in "The Lost World: Jurassic Park". Arriving nearly four years after the super-blockbuster "Jurassic Park" and the Oscar-winning "Schindler's List", Spielberg's "Lost World" is hardly subtle in its approach or earth-shattering in its themes, but it delivers several big payoffs that will please fans of the first film and help propel the sequel into the outer limits of the boxoffice universe.
Spielberg and screenwriter David Koepp ripped up and stomped on author Michael Crichton's best-selling book, reworking characters, dropping most of the narrative and introducing a formidable human antagonist who wants to exploit the monstrous creations of the InGen company and commands a small army to hunt and trap the re-created reptiles on an island off the Costa Rican coast.
With Jeff Goldblum and Richard Attenborough reprising their roles from the first film, "Lost World" pits an able crew of adventurers against big, ugly and obviously unreasonable tyranosaurs, but in this scenario even the cute little scavengers called "compys" are bad news. The movie makes good on its promise to feature more kinds of dinos, and it revels in dazzling monster movie thrills.
There are moments that recall the first film's amusement-park-gone-berserk gambit, but the sequel swings toward sympathy for the once-extinct creatures, particularly a T-rex family including an adult and baby that roar through the fantastic finale. Still, a furious raptor attack and other scenes where humans get munched provide the basic guilty pleasures one pays for.
After some routine character development, the film gets into the groove when the protagonists -- including Julianne Moore as a paleontologist, Goldblum as her boyfriend, Vince Vaughn as a videomaker and Richard Schiff as the nuts-and-bolts guy -- convene on "Site B" to record its denizens for InGen's beleaguered founder.
They come with the most expensive gear and only the best intentions. Goldblum's justly fearful character correctly predicts catastrophe, while even he is caught by surprise when his daughter Vanessa Lee Chester) appears as a stowaway.
The ailing creator of Jurassic Park, John Hammond (Attenborough), has lost control of his company while his odious nephew (Arliss Howard) smells big money in the zoo business. Hammond sends his group, but the upstart nephew heads his own mission to the hitherto secret, uninhabited-by-humans island where the dinosaurs of the first film were created.
Leading the larger expedition is a tireless hunter (Pete Postlethwaite), who dreams of killing a T-rex. As things go terribly wrong, after the opportunists kidnap a baby T-rex, all parties come together on the forested, fright-filled isle. There's a major treat after the primary action is through. "Lost World" improves on the original in many ways -- from the performances to the darker tone -- and it contains a few priceless moments to add to the Spielberg canon.
Taking place mainly at night, the film is superbly photographed by Janusz Kaminski ("Schindler's List"), and the murky, dripping-in-dread locations in Northern California's Redwood Forest are bully. Production designer Rick Carter and editor Michael Kahn are in top form, while the many special effects sequences create wondrous illusions that will be marveled at for some time.
Veteran composer John Williams sparingly uses the first film's stately theme and uncorks a rugged, sometimes savage score. The film's most important feature -- the best dinosaurs ever seen on the big screen, whether full-motion, live-action or CGI -- are the inspired work of Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Michael Lantieri and many other praiseworthy folks.
THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK
Universal Pictures
An Amblin Entertainment production
A Steven Spielberg film
Director Steven Spielberg
Writer David Koepp
Based on the novel by Michael Crichton
Producers Gerald R. Molen, Colin Wilson
Executive producer Kathleen Kennedy
Director of photography Janusz Kaminski
Production designer Rick Carter
Editor Michael Kahn
Music John Williams
Casting Janet Hirshenson, Jane Jenkins
Color/stereo
Cast:
Ian Malcolm Jeff Goldblum
Sarah Harding Julianne Moore
Roland Pete Postlethwaite
Peter Ludlow Arliss Howard
John Hammond Richard Attenborough
Nick Van Owen Vince Vaughn
Kelly Curtis Vanessa Lee Chester
Eddie Carr Richard Schiff
Running time -- 124 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
Spielberg and screenwriter David Koepp ripped up and stomped on author Michael Crichton's best-selling book, reworking characters, dropping most of the narrative and introducing a formidable human antagonist who wants to exploit the monstrous creations of the InGen company and commands a small army to hunt and trap the re-created reptiles on an island off the Costa Rican coast.
With Jeff Goldblum and Richard Attenborough reprising their roles from the first film, "Lost World" pits an able crew of adventurers against big, ugly and obviously unreasonable tyranosaurs, but in this scenario even the cute little scavengers called "compys" are bad news. The movie makes good on its promise to feature more kinds of dinos, and it revels in dazzling monster movie thrills.
There are moments that recall the first film's amusement-park-gone-berserk gambit, but the sequel swings toward sympathy for the once-extinct creatures, particularly a T-rex family including an adult and baby that roar through the fantastic finale. Still, a furious raptor attack and other scenes where humans get munched provide the basic guilty pleasures one pays for.
After some routine character development, the film gets into the groove when the protagonists -- including Julianne Moore as a paleontologist, Goldblum as her boyfriend, Vince Vaughn as a videomaker and Richard Schiff as the nuts-and-bolts guy -- convene on "Site B" to record its denizens for InGen's beleaguered founder.
They come with the most expensive gear and only the best intentions. Goldblum's justly fearful character correctly predicts catastrophe, while even he is caught by surprise when his daughter Vanessa Lee Chester) appears as a stowaway.
The ailing creator of Jurassic Park, John Hammond (Attenborough), has lost control of his company while his odious nephew (Arliss Howard) smells big money in the zoo business. Hammond sends his group, but the upstart nephew heads his own mission to the hitherto secret, uninhabited-by-humans island where the dinosaurs of the first film were created.
Leading the larger expedition is a tireless hunter (Pete Postlethwaite), who dreams of killing a T-rex. As things go terribly wrong, after the opportunists kidnap a baby T-rex, all parties come together on the forested, fright-filled isle. There's a major treat after the primary action is through. "Lost World" improves on the original in many ways -- from the performances to the darker tone -- and it contains a few priceless moments to add to the Spielberg canon.
Taking place mainly at night, the film is superbly photographed by Janusz Kaminski ("Schindler's List"), and the murky, dripping-in-dread locations in Northern California's Redwood Forest are bully. Production designer Rick Carter and editor Michael Kahn are in top form, while the many special effects sequences create wondrous illusions that will be marveled at for some time.
Veteran composer John Williams sparingly uses the first film's stately theme and uncorks a rugged, sometimes savage score. The film's most important feature -- the best dinosaurs ever seen on the big screen, whether full-motion, live-action or CGI -- are the inspired work of Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Michael Lantieri and many other praiseworthy folks.
THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK
Universal Pictures
An Amblin Entertainment production
A Steven Spielberg film
Director Steven Spielberg
Writer David Koepp
Based on the novel by Michael Crichton
Producers Gerald R. Molen, Colin Wilson
Executive producer Kathleen Kennedy
Director of photography Janusz Kaminski
Production designer Rick Carter
Editor Michael Kahn
Music John Williams
Casting Janet Hirshenson, Jane Jenkins
Color/stereo
Cast:
Ian Malcolm Jeff Goldblum
Sarah Harding Julianne Moore
Roland Pete Postlethwaite
Peter Ludlow Arliss Howard
John Hammond Richard Attenborough
Nick Van Owen Vince Vaughn
Kelly Curtis Vanessa Lee Chester
Eddie Carr Richard Schiff
Running time -- 124 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
- 5/19/1997
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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