Lost in Space . Tucson Weekly . 04-27-98

Lost in Space

DIRECTED BY: Stephen Hopkins

REVIEWED: 04-27-98

A family of scientists is sent into space with insufficient dialogue to fight alien spiders and plot-holes. The first half-hour is comically stupid, but boredom sets in after all the cute lines from the original television series have been used up. Nonetheless, this film deserves a special award for least cohesive cast: Putting Matt Leblanc, Mimi Rogers, William Hurt and Gary Oldman together is like casting Moe Howard, Katherine Hepburn, Laurence Olivier and the Great Glildersleeve in a remake of Dracula Vs The Wolfman. Be sure to keep track of the ratio of real dialogue to expository lines: For every "Watch out for the killer robot!" there's five "If my father wasn't a war hero I would have been able to lend emotional support to my son Billy Jr. when he was growing up as a boy genius in the ecologically challenged world we are forced to live in...."

--DiGiovanna

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Lost in Space

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The Ghost and the Darkness

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