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Dotsthavesp I wanted to but couldn't!

Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) "The Robinsons: Lost in Space" is a 42-minute pilot television episode for a series that never got picked up. It is basically loosely based on a much older show that got some Emmy Awards consideration several decades earlier, but this remake did not cause enough attraction so it would get turned into a "real" show. The director here is John Woo who made several pretty famous films already and the writer team is also pretty well-known, one of them even an Oscar winner. Guess in exchange for that they had to save a bit of money on the cast. i don't know anybody there except Adrianne Palicki and she isn't exactly a big star either. The story is basically set in the future, about a family who is stuck between fighting evil alien creatures while also trying to get along with each other. This could have been great material for a comedy, but it is all drama and I miss some lighter moments in here. Maybe that is also one of the reason why I give this one a thumbs-down. I would not have watched a television show based on that short film here.

tomakalinus I thought that another reboot couldn't possibly be worse than the original campy series or the campy '90s movie. I was wrong.The first three segments are all about the teenagers insufferably whining. There's no action at all during this part, nor are the characters doing anything to make us root for them. It's all bad cliché family drama stuff.Finally, an alien ship attacks, but we don't know who the aliens are or why they're attacking. They're generic "bad aliens" and do nothing to increase the interest of what's happening.I find it nearly impossible to believe that this came from John Woo, a director who knows how to shoot more exciting films than this, and Doug Petrie, a really good writer from the Joss Whedon camp. I don't know how this went so wrong, but it did indeed go very wrong.Seek this out to satisfy your curiosity alone. I can very much see why the WB didn't pick this up for a series.

tracy_hannon As someone who grew up watching the series, I was very anxious to watch this. After doing so, I have to say, I hated to see that it was over! I always wondered as a child, how Don came into the picture. This was explained in this version. And although I never knew there was a David, I hated to see him left behind. I think that Mr Smith would be missed though. His character made for many a great episode in the past. No one will ever forget that whining man, lol. All said and done, I was very entertained. Would definitely tune in next week...to see what happens next. I cant believe it was never picked up! Maybe someone will try this again in the future?

Mandemus I guess most people who have seen this unaired TV pilot at this point either worked on the show or saw one of the bootleg versions that pop up on the internet occasionally. I am in the latter group.The Robinsons: Lost in Space was interesting to me mostly for the curiosity factor. The special effects were as good or better than most TV SF in the 1990s or early 2000s. The actors were good. Even the young actors were very professional. There was no low-budget feel to this effort at all, and it would have been great to see where this series might have gone.My main disappointment was the paucity of science fiction present in this science fiction show. The original series (1965-1968), although sometimes silly and childish (it was aimed at children, after all), did indeed focus on some element of science fiction each week. In The Robinsons, the science was mostly in passing. For example, Will's robot experiment was a quick scene. The worm hole was used as a quick device to get them lost, but that's about all.Still, for the Lost in Space completist, or SF fan seeking something that was well made and hard to find, this is well worth a look.