Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Glimmerubro It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) "The Robinsons: Lost in Space" is a 42-minute pilot television episode for a series that never got picked up. It is basically loosely based on a much older show that got some Emmy Awards consideration several decades earlier, but this remake did not cause enough attraction so it would get turned into a "real" show. The director here is John Woo who made several pretty famous films already and the writer team is also pretty well-known, one of them even an Oscar winner. Guess in exchange for that they had to save a bit of money on the cast. i don't know anybody there except Adrianne Palicki and she isn't exactly a big star either. The story is basically set in the future, about a family who is stuck between fighting evil alien creatures while also trying to get along with each other. This could have been great material for a comedy, but it is all drama and I miss some lighter moments in here. Maybe that is also one of the reason why I give this one a thumbs-down. I would not have watched a television show based on that short film here.

Joseph Godfrey I ran across this pilot maybe 10 years too late, but I'm here to say how happy I am that Warner Brothers did not pick this garbage up. And by "garbage", I mean the kind you see on the side of a highway; Trash so bad that it goes ignored without ANY attempt to pick it up.The first thing I disliked was the older brother David. I thought to myself how does Will get to be that lonely kid I identified with from the original series? If Will has always had an older brother then it misses the dynamics of what molds a young child's imagination ... A loneliness that allows such a child to live in their own heads or find surrogate friends through robots. David was completely unnecessary and it became more evident when he was left behind surrounded by aliens. David was just a future plot device.Judy & Penny ... They immediately focused on Judy and I was a little thankful for this. The original series Judy was a background character for Don West to play with. Here she was granted a larger role, but she was still just the love interest. The Judy & Don relationship I remember was built up over time rather than the late-night fling these two began with. I actually preferred Heather Graham's Judy from the 1998 movie; She was a central character not thrown into the cliché "girl meets boy" BS of Hollywood.Penny was reduced to an infant ... maybe to make Maureen Robinson appear more motherly. It irritated me to no end. Penny was my first television crush. She also had the plain tomboyish look that allowed young girls to identify with ... frak knows there's no way to identify with her Barbie doll older sister played by (boob distraction) Adrianne Palicki.Will was the main focus of the original series. Here (much like Jayne Brook's Maureen Robinson with baby Penny) he's a background staple to make Brad Johnson's John Robinson look like a father. Sure Johnson reminded me a great deal of Guy Williams, the original John Robinson. I found myself enjoying him because of that. But the dynamic of father & son are left to one moment of a baseball glove being handed down to a boy that doesn't even know what a baseball glove is. This John Robinson at least tried to be there for his son, the original John Robinson constantly overlooked Will adding to the loneliness of the character.There wasn't really any character here to identify with.Don West. Why bother talking about this guy? I won't even waste your time. He was that dull.John & Maureen Robinson? Nope not interesting enough to discuss. Although perhaps to look at the star of the show which was John Robinson. Why make him the focal point? He became an action hero because that's basically all John Woo can do. The original father of the family was a professor. Here he was updated as some retired Marine or some crap apparently to justify the lame slow-mo action scenes.I suspect Woo grew up with a house full of action heroes that he acted out fight scenes with with no more dialog than "booosh" and "guhhhh". Sure in the original series both John & Don handled the fight sequences ... but Lost In Space was always about the science-fiction NOT some choreographed drop kicking shoot 'em up. It's a Swiss Family Robinson revision that happens in outer-space. The fight/action scenes here were used as FILLER, designed to stretch the story to complete an hour long time period. It made no sense.THE ROBOT. Anytime anyone remembers 'Lost In Space' ... whether it's the old television series or the failed 1998 film ... the biggest attraction has always been the damn ROBOT. What do we get in it's place? A legless C3PO reject. Seriously WTF? Go to the Lost In Space Wikia and see the image of it. Try not to laugh, I dare you ...The face is a bent piece of metal with two holes drilled in it for eyes. It was a metal Muppet. A bad joke. Especially considering they blew 2 million on this pilot. 2 freaking mill and we get a glowing 3D Operation™ game Dr Zachary Smith was not in this pilot. Not sure why. But on the single interesting note that could have worked here - that someone evidently overlooked ... While the protagonists were generic alien rubber suits rather than a terrorist doctor ... it left an opportunity for the Dr. Smith role to actually be an alien. Would have been the only interesting thing about this series if they had seen fit to use such a twist.All in all, I would hope that any future endeavor teaches the idiot executives hired in family that THIS IS NOT HOW IT'S DONE!!! I say Hell Yeah" reboot the show but put (maybe) someone like Ronald D. Moore in charge. Someone that knows character development & a thing or two about science fiction.

wwgrayii Third time around for the Robinsons. This time, John Robinson is a retired space marine colonel/war hero who insists on taking his family wife Maureen,teens David and Judy, ten year-old Will, Will's robot and baby Penny) to another planet to become peaceful farmers and live off the land. After some by-the-book family melodrama (none of them, it seems, want to go on this trip), the Robinsons are on their way. Their mother ship (the "Jupiter") is soon under (unexplained) attack by clichéd aliens. David appears to be killed and the rest of them (along with hot young pilot Don West) are forced flee through a black hole in their landing craft (the "Jupiter 2"), ending up, well, you know...Overall, typical action pilot. There's a lot of exposition to pack into 40-some minutes, and too much of that time is wasted on setting up the Robinson's dysfunctional dynamics, so it's hard to tell where this is all supposed to lead. It's a fair bet, however, that since it was made for the WB, had this been picked up, we would have seen a lot of Judy and Don.John Woo's American career had pretty much derailed by 2003 and he was reduced to making this pilot for the WB. Actually he does an OK job, even managing to work in his trademark doves and slow motion.As for the cast, about the only ones who impress are Ryan Malagrini as Will Robinson and Adrianne Palicki as Judy.As is usual for unsold pilots these days, there are no credits (other than a crudely animated main title) and several visual effects (e.g. wire removal)were never finished.As a side note, the sets were bought by the producers of "Battlestar Galactica" and after some modifications, were used as the interiors of the Battlestar Pegasus.

huh_oh_i_c I found this while browsing, don't remember where. The quality kinda sucked (352x240 at 1150 kbps) but I was curious about it. Sadly, I wasn't overly impressed with it. It was kinda standard TV, but still almost entertaining enough.Huge goof: When Will and David are threatened to get sucked out into space, they seem to be suspended in mid-air, just grabbing some handle, However, Will's cables are clearly visible in two or three shots.Also kinda goofy is the use of 2003 Battlestar Galactica music (Richard Gibbs' "Are You Alive?", "Main Title" and "By Your Command") and right after that, Thomas Newman's music from American Beauty (track no. 9 Bloodless Freak").The morphing of Penny into a baby is mildy surprising, maybe they were gonna use it as an arc, like Penny gets sucked into so time-space warp and returns as a teen, preteen or fully grown adult, depending on which actress the network owes a favour to.And Jayne Brook as mom Maureen is hotter than Adrianne 'big chin' Palicki as daughter Judy, that's never a good sign. I'm not sad that it's not picked up, but i'd not have minded watching it on TV. Buying it or giving it space on my hard drive, nah.