In the bunch of archetypes that form the InGen team, at least there’s the brilliant, late Pete Postlethwaite as hunter Roland Tembo (for this is a film that arguably spends a bit more time characterising its dinosaurs than it does its humans, making us feel more sorry for the creatures than the people). We’ll return to that place later in this article, and not with a smile on our faces. The InGen team? They’re capturing animals, to take them off the island, and towards Jurassic Park San Diego. Our ‘heroes’? They want to document things, or in the case of Malcolm, leave. The concoction that mixes things up is the sudden arrival of a second team on Isla Sorna, and that’s one that’s been ordered by Ludlow The Corporate Bastard. Malcolm fails to convince Sarah to leave, they have a disagreement, we see dinosaurs, all seems well, yadda yadda. Thus, the speeding through storytelling continues. The difference they face is that the audience know the rules this time, and the characters don’t. With all this preamble, it takes 21 minutes and 44 seconds of screen time to set foot on the new not-Jurassic Park, and, even without the 45 minutes of education that set up the original film, Steven Spielberg and his team still have some setup work to do. Naturally enough, David Koepp’s script finds a way to get Malcolm’s daughter, Kelly, to the island as well. And The West Wing‘s Toby, Richard Schiff, as Eddie, who may as well pop a red shirt on, so obvious a bit of dinosaur food is he. Bottom line: Hammond has sent three people to Isla Sorna so far.

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