Lost In Space (DVD)

When I was a kid, every Sunday I watched reruns of the popular drama, 'Lost In Space', about a family who went up into space and got lost (funny that, the title kind of gives it away!). So, when they made the decision to remake the series into a film, giving it a futuristic overhaul, I was really excited. The film was released in 1998, and its running time is 130 minutes. The Plot In the year 2058, scientists have realised that in order for the population of Earth to survive, they must relocate to somewhere outside the planet, for it is dying. The Robinson family are sent into space to colonise 'Alpha Prime' to see if this is possible, yet they ...

Lost In Space was one of those films that I really wanted to enjoy. I like science fiction films in a big way, and given the fact that this was supposed to be a major cinema blockbuster I had (relatively) high hopes that this would be a good movie. Initially, I was quite pleasantly surprised, but as the film wore on, that nagging doubt in the back of my mind manifested itself into full-blown disappointment. Although this was based on a cult television series, I am not going to attempt to compare the two, as I have never seen the programme, so this is very much a review of the film in its own right. Set about sixty years in the future, Lost In Space presents us ...

Me and Mrs D try to avoid going to the movies as hard as possible because of very annoying pieces of work like this... We've all seen them, these hyped up big budget films that seem so very exciting in the trailers. Similarly the remakes of either films or 60's TV progs or comic books (The Avengers, etc). Lost In Space falls into both camps and sadly it is one of the worst of its kind, but doubly so because of the level of expectancy raised by the hype. On the face of it it should be a wonderful experience - it's got all the camp humour of the 60's and the memory of those very weird jump suits and the original Dr Zachary Smith (who ...