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| LOST IN SPACE (1998) - PG-13
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ReviewScore: 42 out of 100
SBD Star Rating:
by Lew Irwin
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Critics are mostly joining in a chorus of "Get lost!" to greet Lost in Space. (Unaccountably, "Get Lost" is the slogan New Line Cinema marketers are using to promote the film.) Noting that the producers reportedly spent massive amounts on the special effects for the film, Rita Kempley writes in the Washington Post, "Hardware doesn't make a movie; characters ... do. And as so often happens with such outsize undertakings, they are overwhelmed by the gizmos." Steve Murray in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution comments that the plot of the movie "plays like outtakes from Star Trek." "This is an $80-million toy commercial," concludes Toronto Star critic Peter Howell, an observation expanded upon by others. "When actors get the unaccountable yen to see themselves as plastic action figures," writes the New York Times' Janet Maslin, "maybe a toy-crazy extravaganza like Lost in Space looks like a smart career move." Says Rod Dreher in the New York Post: "Lost in Space is about great production design and selling toys. Period." Almost all of the critics use the word "cheesy" in their reviews. But Bruce Westbrook in the Houston Chronicle suggests that the film ought to be judged on its own terms, as a "film for a generation raised on video games and spectacular special effects. In that respect they deliver -- big-time." Adds Philip Wuntch in The Dallas Morning News:"Basically, Lost in Space will be enjoyed by those who go to the movies because the theaters' lobbies have such cool computer arcades." |
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