SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Tockinit not horrible nor great

VeteranLight I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Derry Herrera Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Matthew Leese Seriously, it's just not worth watching. I only did because it showed up in my Netflix recommendations and I thought, "Hey, I think I saw part of this a long time ago. Maybe I should try finishing it?" I quickly realized why I hadn't finished it the first time. Horrible writing, cheesy lines, annoying or over-the-top characters, sub-par acting, unrealistic CGI, huge plot holes, and an overall ridiculous premise. Skip it. You've been warned.

westley34 This movie is downright awful. The special effects looks like a video game, even worse than most Syfy channel movies. Matt Leblanc was terribly miscast, he was laughable as Don West. The acting of many of the supporting actors was sub par for a fairly big budget movie with some pretty big name actors. Will Robinson's acting was either particularly bad or just unrealistic. There was no fear or sense of urgency present at all in him as he decommissioned the robot and saved his family and the space ship, as if he were just strolling in the park. I understand he is just a child actor but there are child actors that could have conveyed a sense of urgency there that would have been more fitting to what was happening (his entire family was seconds away from being slaughtered and he himself had just dodged death dealing rays from the robot). Maybe it was just really bad directing that caused him to act that way, but the end result is just another bad scene in a long line of bad scenes. I was being generous giving this 2 stars.

A Oldman plays his typical great bad guy.Most of this feels overacted.Checks his nails :) The uniforms remind me of Silverhawks.The ship got to be horribly fuel expensive to push through an atmosphere.Pillowy docking bay.Thank goodness for the deploying landing gear.Poke it with a stick first! Did he really say "I love you wife"? Dr. Smith is eternally condescending.Robot has a severe Irish Whisper.That was risky hoping he wouldn't make it through.A lone touching moment.Jupiter 2 looks like the Millennium Falcon's bloated uncle.Psychedelic and abrupt credits.Sometimes you feel bad giving a 2/5. Sometimes you DON'T.

Leofwine_draca 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.