![]() An awesomely rendered environment with nothing in the foreground. But that, unfortunately, is all there is. The art department clearly put a mind-boggling amount of effort into creating a fully realized world. I can't quite decide which is more impressive: the hyperkinetic ride through the immaculately detailed robot city or a complicated sequence involving thousands of dominoes. ![]() And don't get me wrong: those visual sequences are pretty cool. There are a few funny bits of dialogue (provided by off-Broadway scribe David Lindsay Abaire), but mostly the script is just the filler before the next elaborate visual sequence dreamed up by the animators. The storyline, such as it is, could probably fill a single half-hour slot on Nickelodeon. During this epic quest he encounters a series of Disney-ish archetypes, including: wacky robot sidekick (voiced by Robin Williams, natch), bland robot love interest (Halle Berry, spending all of maybe three hours in the recording studio), and a spunky tomboy robot (voiced by some unmemorable tween star). So about the story: boy robot leaves his home for the big-city, must defeat evil robot trying to control the robot world. Not because I literally ingested anything before arriving at the theatre, but because the movie provided that familiar feeling of one's brain being reduced to a muddled receptor for bright colors and funny noises. He does not even have Earthbound origins.I left this film feeling high. Now the Robot is even more advanced than ever. Robot’s significance to the plot of Lost in Space becomes even more crucial in the 2018 Netflix series. Even after his unfortunate devouring, he remains the best part of a mediocre movie because, well, how could he not be? He’s the Robot. He just remains Will’s steadfast friend and after he’s eaten “alive” by killer space spider’s, Will even downloads his software into another Robot form that happens to resemble the original Robot quite a bit. Ultimately Robot does not factor into Lost in Space ’s end game that much. Robot learns about the beauty of baseball and friendship, as all robots should be so lucky to do. Young Will Robinson is able to gain control of the Robot and the two become fast friends. Smith hacks the Robot and forces him to attack the Robinson’s Jupiter II while they are in stasis. The events of Lost in Space (1998) are put into motion when the evil Dr. He also shoulders a much larger narrative burden. Instead of a glass bubble head, he has more of a sleek forward-facing sensor. He has broad shoulders and spindly arms ending in claws. The Robot of the film is a large, hulking creature. The film itself was largely unsuccessful both critically and commercially but its failures cannot be laid at Robots feet… or tracks rather. The 1998 film adaptation Lost in Space got the first crack at recreating the brilliance that was Robot. “Does not compute.” “Danger, Will Robinson.” Those are two incredible greatest hits for any pop cultural entity.Īnd for as strong and simple a premise as the original Lost in Space had ( Swiss Family Robinson in space) one can’t help but think that the show has been rebooted twice now only so that new creators can play with as fun a blank slate as the Robot. ![]() ![]() ![]() Almost everything that has entered our cultural memory from the original Lost in Space comes from Robot. He was about as lovable a robotic creation as could possibly exist. ![]()
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