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Summary: "Never Fear, Smith is Here"
Review: The Year is 2058. Earth's resources are running low. The "Jupiter Mission" will go to a planet called "Alpha Prime", the only other planet that can support human life. The Robinson family is going to Alpha Prime. The Trip to Alpha Prime is 10 long years. However, Dr. Smith tampers with the on-ship robot to destroy the Jupiter 2. Smith's plan backfires, and he's forced to seek the help of the Robinson Family to stop the rampaging robot. The family is truly lost in space.
A good sci-fi flick!
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Summary: Oh the pain, the pain! Excitingly bad, but with great s/fx
Review: This is one of those films that gets you thinking. Thinking things like "What WERE they trying to do?" "Lost in Space" is a strange little film, filled with some spectacular special effects, some fine actors, a reasonably good plot and...disaster, Will Robinson.This film was obviously gone over by a committee, a committee hopelessly deadlocked about what they wanted to do with (to) the film. "It's an adventure film" says one, so throw in special effects and plenty of them. "It's a romance" says another, so put in handsome William Hurt and handsomer Mimi Rogers. "It's a kid's film" , so throw in a couple of punky kids and a cute claymation puppet that looks like Saturday morning cartoons. It's...well, you get the picture. The plot is a good development of the 60's TV show. Dr. Smith is a saboteur, and his stowage aboard the Jupiter 2 is well thought-out. Aside from the sappy family scenes and cliches "You never spend ANY time with the kids. You only think about your career" --the opening 20 minutes are fairly acceptable. But then the film gets about as lost as the Robinson voyage. The time travel subplot is interesting, but you'll probably be thinking, by the end, that Will Robinson should have jumped back into that time vortex himself and seen to it that this film never sees the light of day.
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Summary: More like 3 and half stars
Review: My family and I saw this movie at the theater when it opened and enjoyed it enough to buy the video. I'm now considering the DVD. Why? Because even though this isn't a steller science fiction film it is a lot of fun.Don't trust the fans of the dreadful series to be objective (I watched this series' first run as a kid and was a dedicated viewer and I still came to the conclusion that it was space magic drek). Don't trust the former actors on the old series to like the new handling. I don't hold a grudge against them because they're going to be nostalgic in their recall. The series was not good. Even though I liked the main actors, their acting, and the show's premise, this movie is better.While the special effects seem to be the star here I like the family's struggle to become.... a family. In the beginning we see the typical parental neglect that children recieve these days as well as the parents always promising to make up for it. The parents have good intentions but both of the folks are scientists, with one a celebrity of sorts whose trying to save the entire population of the planet (even though that population is not aware of how bad things really are), and the other parent (scientist/mom) organizing the family's departure from the planet on a mission to build the second half of a stargate at the other end to bring the population through to a new homeworld (the gate will utilize the means to navigate ships with hyperdrive engines so they won't get lost and cut that travel time to almost nothing, unlike the Jupiter2 which will travel by conventional sub light speeds). This is an awfully big ambitious setting for a normal family and needless to say the stress is showing. I like this story even if it's streamlined (probably) for gala special effects.By the end of their first misadventure they are a real family. They rely on each other and appreciate their place in the family.Good stuff: While some of the characterization is not as potent as it could be it is good enough and sometimes very well done given the fact that this is a science fiction adventure inspired by a bad TV series.The special effects are dazzling and well placed.The science is inspired by our latest interpretations of cosmology as well as utilizing those to good effect.Matt LeBlanc was fun to watch and a very different character than those typecast dumb Italian hunk roles that seem to predominate his acting resume'. The bad stuff: The technology, as one reviewer mentioned already, is a bit too high tech for the time period at the rate of our current pace.While I like the terrorist subplot a little more information would have been good.Not enough time is spent explaining the mission's goals much less it's risks.The wrap-up of the story with the older Will was slow and then rushed (like a Star Trek episode using those cliche' last minute saves). I also had little sympathy for that character (are all movie dads supposed to feel quilty for the stupid assumptions their kids make?).I don't like the CGI pet. It's not very convincingly rendered and is an annoyance rather than comic relief. It should have been done better and provided the viewer a sense of kinship with the lost crew since it shared their need for family ties. There will most likely be no sequels so enjoy this romp with a little heart if not a huge audience.
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Summary: "Space" Is Out Of This WOrld
Review: I loved seeing this movie in the theatre despite the critics reviews. It was fun, fanatstic and imaginative. The casting was cool and the many cameos of the original 60's TV cast was a nice touch. I saw it on the biggest screen in Hollywood and it made the experience that much better! The DVD is very good. Lot's of extra features and fun stuff. Extremely organized and a lot bonus videos on the making of it and the casts reactions. This is a good look at the technical side of film making too. Even some deleted scenes and story points that would have made the movie very different. This is a must for all new generation Sci Fi fans! "Danger, Will Robinson, Danger"!
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Summary: "...my regards to oblivion"
Review: Based upon the 1960s television series, LOST IN SPACE, is your average sci-fi adventure. Set in the year 2058, our planet's resources are nearly depleted. The only hope for the human race is sending a ship to outter space. On Board is the Robinson family, their mission is to colonize the only other inhabitable planet in the galaxy, Alpha Prime. However, thanks to the crafty Dr. Smith (Gary Oldman), the ship is taken off course, and left in uncharted space. The screenplay by Akiva Goldsman (who may have won an Oscar for A Beautiful Mind, but also wrote the dreadful scrtpt for Batman and Robin) goes the easy way. The story may strive to be different and exciting but it really isn't Sure there are some neat F/X and a good performance by Oldman, but that's it It uses a lot of tired old plot devices like time travel and hackneyed lines. I know that there are a limited stories to tell, I just wish that it turned out better. The ending has elements that sound like a daytime talk show. The cast is o.k., considering what they have to work with, in the script. The direction by Stephen Hopkins, ... does his best here to try and make it fun... The DVD has 2 commentary tracks, deleted scenes, and various featurettes. The best of those has original cast members talking about the series. Another cool feature is the inclusion of the Apollo Four Forty video of their updated take on the series theme by John Williams. It also has DVD-ROM material for your computer. Overall, the extras aren't that bad, I just wish the script were better. I can only marginally recommended this DVD.
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Summary: I liked it! 1 mild spoiler at the bottom of review
Review: As someone who watched the original series as a kid I thought this was a very credible updated version.
And it certainly had beter characterization of all the women.
Matt Le Blanc was excellent as the new Don West and his scene with Mark Goddard, the original West, was really amusing for fans of the original show.
People complain too much about movies these days and this film was no exception to that unfortunatly.
It was so far and a way better written, acted and looking than the original partialy because of all the media advances over the last 30 years but also because it is just a great cast.
Gary Oldman was more true to how Dr. Smith was in the originals pilot than how he became as the series progressed.
SPOILER follows:
I loved this film and the only major problem I had was that it ends in a cliff hanger with them still Lost In Space! Arghhhh I know they probably hoped for a sequal or two but ooh how iratating, now both family Robinsons have yet to get home!!!!
:-D
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Summary: Not Bad, But Not Great Either; Depthless Eye-Candy
Review: The Story: A Family (the Robinson's), along with a skilled but uncouth and initially unenthusiastic pilot and a robot, are sent on an interstellar mission to start a colony, with more colonists to follow once a space portal is completed. They end up with a stowaway, who had tried to sabotage the mission ahead of time and who belonged to a political movement that opposes the colony project. Thanks to more sabotage, the ship ends up off course and lands on a hostile planet, after encountering a ship run by hostile spiders and picking up a usually cute but sometimes annoying pet, Blarp. On the planet, they find a time-space anomaly with their own ship, far into the future, inside it. Meanwhile, conflicts abound between several different combinations of the crew (mother and father, father and son, younger daughter and parents, father and pilot, older daughter and pilot, everyone and stowaway Dr. Smith). The Cast: The entire Robinson family (William Hurt, Mimi Rogers, Lacey Chabert, Heather Graham, and Jack Johnson) are more like dark cartoon characters than real people, although Heather Graham is moderately realistic at times and Jack Johnson gives the most believable performance of the bunch. Matt LeBlanc, whom I like on television, is unrealistic and a complete caricature of the pilot. Gary Oldman, who can be terrific as a villain, does his best with an anemic script to make his character menacing, and he succeeds about half the time. Technical: The special effects are, in general, spectacular. This is especially true of the spaceships, the aliens (with one exception, noted below), and the space scenes. The pet-like Blarp never looks like he is actually in his scenes, but always looks superimposed onto the scene. Overall: This film has great effects and a fast pace, and the script tries to be complicated, but the dialogue is anemic and juvenile, and Matt LeBlanc fails his part. I'm glad I watched this movie, but I have no plans to watch it again. If a sequel comes out, I'll wait to see it until it's available for rent, and then I'll decide whether to buy it.
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Summary: BORING
Review: Boring. All these actors could have done something better then this junky film. Reasons why because it was long, too descripitive and just plain dumb. ...
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Summary: The movie is a disappointment to Lost in Space fans
Review: I had high hopes for this movie having been a long time fan of the original series. Unfortunately, although the movie uses the original series as a premise, it too quickly ditches what made that series special for so many people, and instead goes for a 90s special effects theme park ride approach. The characters which made the original series are pushed to one side, and the acting in the movie is very wooden. I would have liked to have seen a greater role for the original series cast, and wished New Line Cinema had shown a little more deference to the series. For example, when the Jupiter 2 lifts off from Earth, it looks pretty much like the original ship. But that is only the outer shell, which is crudely 'dumped' by the new Jupiter, which looks positively awful. This mindset then pervades the entire movie. Buy it...but don't expect much... I'm waiting for the original series to be released on DVD... Malcolm
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Summary: I wish this film was lost in space.
Review: U2: "Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a theif." Once again Dr. frankenstein retuns to the grave yeard insearch of a coprpse to reanimate. Get a hint, the brian is Abby Normal. get It? Thif film is the cyber-grunge rewrite of a pretty good tv series, but it is too dark. My law: The quality of the special effects is inversly proportial to the quality of the script. Thire is a way to salvage this movie, and that is by making it a little happiere, instead of somw twisted iron maden.
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