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I used to like the old LOST IN SPACE series. No masterpiece but I found some entertainment in it. The makers of this film seem torn between being faithful to the original and trying to completely change it. They got the guy who did the original voice for the robot but completely changed the robot's design. The ship starts out looking a bit like the Jupiter II, then changes into an H.R. Giger type thing. Bruce Broughton's score never reprises any of the shows themes (although the song over the end title credits had me running for the exit it was so loud and obnoxious). The CGI spiders are too fakey even for a videogame much less a feature film and that Bloop or Blip or whatever it is will have you looking for something to throw at the screen. The other problem is that the film in trying to be all things to all people, turns out to be nothing to anybody. It's not close enough to the show to please the fans and if you never liked the show, there's no way you're going to pay to see a film with a title of a show you never liked. Some of the special effects are good but can't save this mess. The characters in this just aren't likeable so you don't give a damn what happens to them and just assume Earth will be better off if they stay gone. The film opens with a big STAR WARS inspired/ripped-off space battle that looks neat and has no connection to the rest of the film that I could tell. Savor it though cause it's the best part of the movie and everything after is all downhill. After they crash land on the planet, there occurs a plot twist so twisted that I was lost and couldn't figure out what was going on and to this day, I still don't know what was going on. Smith turns into a spider or something and that was all I got out of that part. The biggest tragedy is that this film easily cost over $100 million to make but if you were to take the LOST IN SPACE title off it and change the name of the characters and drop the voice of the robot, you'd assume you were watching a low-budget 1980s Roger Corman sequel to GALAXY OF TERROR. Frankly, I think they'd have been better off to call it GALAXY OF TERROR 2 and add some gore to it. At least nobody would be disappointed when they got a sub-standard space movie instead of the big-budget update of a popular TV show most audiences were expecting. I would advise avoiding this film at all costs. If you want to see a good space movie, rent GALAXY OF TERROR instead. If you suffer from insomnia, rent this and you will be sawing logs before it's halfway over. I've had a better time staring at the ceiling.
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