Review – Lost in Space

There must be a formula for making 1960s sci-fi series into 1990s sci-fi movies. More expensive productions. Better special effects. Stronger female characters. Nineties themes like family bonding in place of the more straightforward battles with men in monster suits made of shag carpet. They even added big-name talent including William Hurt and Gary Oldman. But still it somehow just seems to fall short. Maybe part of it is that I’m no longer eight years old (though when I was, the original series was the centerpiece of many an after-school social gathering). Heck, even Penny’s pet is a high-tech shadow of her former self. And when you’re a high-tech shadow of a chimp with a big-ears wig stuck to its head ... See if desperate