Lost in Space (1998)

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Lost in Space was one my favorite series together with Land of the Giants and The Time Tunnel,in this movie unfortunately they got disgrace everything built in the original series as follow:1-That Fuc*** monkey is totally bizarre and needless.2-Dr. Smith was never evil mind,just con and coward. 3-Penny never was so shallow...writing diary where?? 4-Too many unnecessary FX. 5-the new Robot is a scary monster!!! 6-The soundtrack apart LIS theme the remains is a crap!! 7-Dr. Smith became a Spider is TOOO MMMUUUCCH!!! 8-Bill Mumy could be an older Will...another fail!! 9-Jonathan Harris still lives in 1997...Big mistake!!For the memories of Irwin Allen,Guy Williams and Jonathan Harris whose already passed away and cameo appearances of Mark Goddard,Angela Cartwright,June Lockhart and Marta Kristen l'll give 6 out 10 just for them!!Resume:First watch: 2004 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 6

A fact that this film is one of those which provided me through my early childhood makes me difficult to criticize it. Anyway I want to tell that this is something which may suite anybody from your child to your grandma. This film has a decent plot, good graphic effects and a very well casting. I'm sure that Hopkins wanted to make a film for everybody, the whole family. I guess he succeeded. I watched it first time on TV in early 00-th and was totally blown away. Today a can say that there is nothing too special in this movie, but it looks just nice. Hope you will enjoy.

Several decades into the future, life on Earth is becoming less viable, due to the effects of pollution. The Robinson family set out to the planet of Alpha Prime in order to colonise it, so that earthlings may move there. On the way, they get lost...Dull. I haven't seen the 1960s TV series so can't comment on this movie in the context of the series. However, the movie just seems very silly. Plot seems random, and what there is is not very original.All star cast - William Hurt, Gary Oldman, Heather Graham, Mimi Rogers, Matt LeBlanc - is wasted. Performances are unconvincing and wooden. Surely the director's fault, considering the talent on display.Not worth watching, even if you are a fan of the series.

Here's a brain dead blockbuster which is pretty to look at but fails to engage the brain whatsoever. Fans of the '60s television series who are curious to find out how this filmed version holds up would be wise to give it a miss, as it's just an excuse for lots of cool special effects and not a lot else. Once again the plot seems to have been made up as they went along and is full of holes and indiscrepancies. Things get really bizarre at the end of the film, in which the script writers seemed to dig themselves into a hole and then decide to confuse the audience with technobabble to get them out of it again. By that time I really didn't care and was praying for the obnoxiously sentimental characters to get brutally butchered by a marauding horde of space-spiders.Where to begin with the faults of the cast? (I guess we can't just blame the actors, as the dialogue and characterisation is terrible and contrived too). William Hurt takes the lead as John Robinson, and never has a character been so dull! Truly this guy sent me to sleep every time he opened his monotonous voice. His wife is played by Mimi Rogers, one-time star of THE X-FILES, who flounders aimlessly in a nothing role. Matt LeBlanc is the Robinson's pilot (he can't be a family member as you have to have romance in there too) and is as you would expect, a good-looking but bone-headed meat head who looks good in his space costume but fails to create a realistic character. Heather Graham lends her fragile beauty to the film as Judy Robinson, a daughter, but she has basically nothing to do in the story other than flirt with LeBlanc.For some reason there are lots of extraneous family members added into the story in order to make it appeal to each and every age (we've got child, early teen, 20-somethings and middle-aged folk - what happened to the token old or black person though?). Most grating of all is the incredibly irritating Penny Robinson, played by Lacey Chabert. Penny spends the film speaking into her video camera and is played as a stereotypical dumb American girl. I was seriously ready to kill her by the end of the film. Jack Johnson is the annoying cute kid Will Robinson, the less said about him the better. The only character I did like was Gary Oldman as the evil baddie Zachary Smith. Despite the fact that he mumbles half of his lines, Oldman is still good value as the unlucky bad character who I ended up rooting for unsurprisingly. Edward Fox also appears to disgrace himself in a cameo appearance along with a few returning original cast members.The action sequences are well-staged but flashy, enlivened by some excellent special effects work (especially the alien spiders and the spider-thing that Smith turns into at the end of the movie). Not so great is the CGI used to animate the space sequences which just looks tacky. The CGI used to portray minor things - like the helmet which rolls down over LeBlanc's head - looks much more impressive. Basically the film has no plot, just scene after scene of the family being menaced by irritating robots and aliens and fighting for their lives. You know already that nobody is going to die, this being a family-orientated movie, so that suspense is ruined as well. And whoever thought to include the obnoxious alien monkey should be shot dead on the spot. LOST IN SPACE is an extremely light weight, flashy sci-fi story with good effects but nothing else.