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LOST IN SPACE (1998)
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New Line Home Entertainment  More Info

Directed by
Stephen Hopkins

William Hurt, Mimi Rogers, Heather Graham, Lacey Chabert, Jack Johnson, Gary Oldman, Matt LeBlanc and Dick Tufeld as Robot

Rated: PG-13
Format Used: DVD
Contains: Graphic Violence
Genre: Sci-Fi

THE PLOT:

When the Earth is becoming too polluted to live a Prof. John Robinson and his family decide to be the first to colonize a distant planet. Along with their pilot Major Don West they set out but there is a stowaway the traitorous Dr. Zachary Smith sabotages the robot and the ship and the crew of the Jupiter 2 finds themselves lost in space. With Doctor Smith for his mysterious backers double cross him and leaves him for dead on the ship. Trying to find they are way home they find a ship full of monster spiders, infecting Dr. Smith. Crash landing on a planet they find a hole in time leading to a possible future where all but little Will Robinson was forced to grow up without his family for they were killed by the mutated Dr. Smith?

THE OPINION:

I liked this version of the classic TV show, it has all the famous one liners but John Robinson and Dr. Smith did not have beards.
I GIVE LOST IN SPACE (7 STARS)

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ON THE POSITIVE SIDE (+ HITS)

+ ROBOT (I liked the new design but they got the original voice)
+ ONE LINERS (All the clever one liners they had in the series)
+ EFFECTS (Great visual effects from the ship to monster Dr. Smith)
+ STORY (Great Story, I want a part 2)

ON THE NEGATIVE SIDE (- MISSES):

- BEARDS (John Robinson and Dr. Smith never had beards)
- NO JONATHON HARRIS (I wished Jonathon Harris took the cameo)

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