Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10041 in DVD
• Released on: 1999-06-28
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 130 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Packed with more than 750 dazzling visual effects, this US$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. Lost in Space is 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 favour of eye-candy and ephemeral storytelling. --Jeff Shannon

Video Description
DVD Special Features

Crew Info
Music Video
Deleted
Scenes
US and International Trailer
Special Effects
Production
Design Stills
Interactive Menus
Ratio: 16:9
Running Time: 130 mins approx
Languages: English

Synopsis
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.

Customer Reviews

amazing
I stumbled on this movie quite "accidentally" on TV, zapping around, and I was transfixed. I had not heard of this movie before and I wonder how, it is breathtaking. Point taken from other reviewers who speak of cliches, poor characters etc, but I actually see this as a strong point. The characters seem quite rigid in some sort of stereotype, and this makes this movie quite orginal I think. Anyway, I had a great time, the action is just non stop, new things happen all the time, it is an amazing rollercoaster ride in space. The special effects are indeed incredible, everybody will have to agree on that.
Anyway: a movie to have a great time, but probably not worth watching more than once.

Eye candy isn't enough to save this movie
The only thing watchable in this movie, aside from Gary Oldman's character, is the special effects. They scream of CGI, naturally, but are amazing to say the least. The extras included in the DVD provide several insights into the making-off and are a plus, but...

The story is one cliché after another, from the disfunctional family and generation gap conflict, to time travel and bugs. Since I don't like bugs, I would have pushed this to 4 stars, but since they are a big part, it goes down to 3. The time travel part has some interesting twists that may put it on 4 stars, but as a whole it goes down to 3. The characters are cliché'd and two-dimensional, failing to entice any other emotion than boredom (again, Gary Oldman managing to save it).

Anyway, special effects can never save a movie if the story or characters don't hold up. It could have been done better, of course, but as is, it's just another sci-fi action movie with plenty of eye-candy.

Pow, zap, wheee - roller coasters in space
This film is not going to satisfy the "it's not totally believable" Sci-Fi fan, but for the rest of us, it's a blast.
It's got everything you would want of a family film - heros, villians, monsters, speed, scenery - it's all here folks!
The special features are nothing to write home about, but then, the film is going to be the reason you want to buy this film