Packed with more than 750 dazzling visual effects, this $70 million adventure does more (and less) than give the 1965-68 TV series a state-of-the-art face-lift. Aimed at an audience that wasn't born when the series originally aired, the sci-fi extravaganza doesn't even require familiarity, despite cameo appearances by several of the TV show's original cast members. Instead it's a high-tech hybrid of the original premise with enough sensory overload to qualify as a spectacular big-screen video game, supported by a time-travel premise that's adequately clever but hardly original. It's certainly never boring, and visually it's an occasionally awesome demonstration of special effects technology. But in its attempt to be all things to all demographics, the movie's more of a marketing ploy than a satisfying adventure, thankfully dispensing with the TV show's cheesy camp but otherwise squandering a promising cast in favor of eye-candy and ephemeral storytelling. --Jeff Shannon
Detailed item info
The space family Robinson is on a journey to Alpha Prime in the hopes of establishing a colony there and thereby saving humanity from extinction. Their plans are foiled by the evil Dr. Smith (Oldman) and they find themselves curiously enough, lost in space. Cameos by Mark Goddard, Angela Cartwright, Marta Kristen and June Lockhart from the original cast of the TV show of the same name.
Product Details
Edition: Edited for Family Viewing
Number of Tapes: 1
Rating: Not Rated
Film Country: USA
Sound: Stereo Sound, Surround Sound
UPC: 794043526138
Additional Details
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy, Television
Format: VHS
Display Format: Edited for Family Viewing
"...There's plenty of eye candy to crunch on, gaudy graphics and gee-whiz gadgets galore..."
USA Today - Susan Wloszczyna (04/03/1998)
"...An alluring miasma of special effects..."
Entertainment Weekly - Owen Gleiberman (05/08/1998)
"...This mission has fuel to burn..."
Premiere - Christine Spines (04/01/1998)
