--- title: Before 'Jurassic World' Watch 'The Lost World' Honest Trailer description: Don't be surprised to root for the dinosaurs canonical: https://time.com/3915788/jurassic-world-honest-trailer-lost-world/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-10T14:22:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:47:26.326Z og:title: Before 'Jurassic World' Watch 'The Lost World' Honest Trailer og:description: Don't be surprised to root for the dinosaurs og:url: https://time.com/3915788/jurassic-world-honest-trailer-lost-world/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf907bc83fdab7734/698853e2524fc05871df30aa/screen-shot-2015-06-10-at-15-25-28.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2015-06-10 at 15.25.28 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Before 'Jurassic World' Watch 'The Lost World' Honest Trailer twitter:description: Don't be surprised to root for the dinosaurs twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf907bc83fdab7734/698853e2524fc05871df30aa/screen-shot-2015-06-10-at-15-25-28.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Before You See _Jurassic World_ Watch The Honest Trailer For _The Lost World_ by [Melissa Locker](/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jun 10, 2015 2:22 PM CUT  by [Melissa Locker](/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Jun 10, 2015 2:22 PM CUT _Jurassic World_ hits movie theaters on Friday. To mark the occasion [Screen Junkies](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOpcACMWblDls9Z6GERVi1A "undefined") are taking fans down memory lane for a frank look at one of the franchise’s less successful installments — _The Lost World: Jurassic Park,_ the 1997 sequel to _Jurassic Park_ that both critics and fans agreed fell far short of Steven Spielberg’s original. The new Honest Trailer, at bottom, starts with the film’s name (“Shouldn’t that title be the other way around? No? Okay.”) and gets more, well, honest from there. According the new trailer, “the unnecessary sequel” features “more deaths, more dangling vehicles, and more giant, practical T. Rex heads passing next to things.” The Honest Trailer finds plenty of flaws to point out in the film, including the strange loss of charisma by Jeff Goldblum’s character, Julianne Moore’s scientist who is dubbed “The Worst” and the overall dullness of the “generic run-away-from-dinosaurs movie.” Ultimately, the trailer asks the important question: “Are we supposed to be rooting for the dinosaurs or the people?” Watch it below: ### See Exclusive Art Inspired By Jurassic Park  Stan and Vince  Franesco Francavilla  Dan McCarthy  Kilas  Gary Pullin  Erica Williams  James Flames  Arik Roper  Nicole Gustafsson  Sam Wolfe Connelly  Teagan White  Rich Kelly [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/autoplay/?xid=spl-fullbrief-article "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3915788/jurassic-world-honest-trailer-lost-world/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3915788/jurassic-world-honest-trailer-lost-world/"},"headline":"Before You See Jurassic World Watch The Honest Trailer For The Lost World","datePublished":"2015-06-10T14:22:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:47:26.326Z","description":"Don't be surprised to root for the dinosaurs","url":"https://time.com/3915788/jurassic-world-honest-trailer-lost-world/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","viral","Jurassic World"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf907bc83fdab7734/698853e2524fc05871df30aa/screen-shot-2015-06-10-at-15-25-28.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf907bc83fdab7734/698853e2524fc05871df30aa/screen-shot-2015-06-10-at-15-25-28.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2015-06-10 at 15.25.28","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3915788/jurassic-world-honest-trailer-lost-world/","name":"Before You See Jurassic World Watch The Honest Trailer For The Lost World"}}]}] ```