Never seen it myself. I'm actually a bit surprised it got filmed, even with the success of the first one. I can't imagine looking at a Clarke novel and thinking, "this would make a great movie." I mean, Kubrick co-wrote 2001 with Clarke - a joint venture based on a short story Clarke had written some time before IIRC - so you can see the parallels. But the subsequent novels were pure Clarke, and Clarke is only slightly more cinematic than Asimov. Sure, he comes up with some stuff that would look cool done right (the world-interior of the spacecraft in Rama, the aforementioned conversion of Jupiter to a sun), but his stories are totally cerebral and not at all action-y. (Not that 2001 is an action film, or anything, but not many directors who aren't Kubrick can get away with that, and Kubrick wasn't involved in the second film.)