LOST IN SPACE

Lost in Space is a 1998 picture produced by New Line Cinema, starring William Hurt, Mimi Rogers, Heather Graham, Matt LeBlanc, Gary Oldman, Jack Johnson, and Lacey Chabert, and is an version of the 1965-1968 CBS TV sequence Lost In space.

In the year 2058, Earth will be not fit to live in after the unalterable effects of pollution. The United Global space Force serves as the planetary government. Professor John Robinson, main scientist of the Jupiter project, will lead his family to the livable planet Alpha Prime to prepare it for colonization by building a hyper gate in orbit. The Jupiter 2 is equipped with a hyper drive that allows faster-than-light trip, which will be employed to vacate the people of Earth. However hyper gates must be constructed on Earth and Alpha Prime to provide steady points of departure and arrival. The mission is accelerated. Major Don West, a fighter steer from the hyper gate defense force is unwillingly drafted as the new steer of the Jupiter mission.

The Robinson family is having troubles of its own. John has been neglecting his family due to his work. His second daughter, Penny is a rebel teenager who doesn't want to go away from earth, Will, the youngest and only son, is a sharp boy (he builds a "time machine").
Dr. Zachary Smith, the Doctor overseeing the Robinson's health conditions for the journey, is bribed by the Global Sedition to disrupt the project via reprogramming the Jupiter 2's robot's commands to "Sixteen hours in commission destroy Robinson family. Destroy all systems". However before Smith can escape, he is ditched by his employers. The launch goes ahead without any problems. The Robinsons and Major West go into cryostasis before lift off.

Dr. Smith wakes up to realize the ship has taken off and the robot comes online and after damaging of several systems, Will is able to disable the robot. The sabotage causes the ship to swerve towards the sun. Major West and Professor Robinson decide to fly through the sun, using the ship's hyper drive without a hyper gate to distort through, the ship and its crew end up in a random (and apparently uncharted) part of the galaxy. Dr. Smith is immediately confined. Upon arrival, they come across a hole in space. Major West takes the Jupiter 2 into the hole, against John's instructions, where the crew comes across the Proteus, an Earth ship from the future. Attached to the ship is an unidentified, deserted alien ship except for a innocent, child-like alien life form. All soon discovers the ship has been infected with carnivorous and cannibalistic silicon-based spider-like life forms. Amidst the battle to flee the ship, a blast destroys the Jupiter 2, and they crash-land on the nearby planet.

On the planet, they find a feed source in the middle of a huge bubble. Professor Robinson and Major West realize it is in fact an area of time distortion where alternate future versions of Dr. Smith and Will have constructed a time machine, power-driven by their Jupiter 2's power core, and are to Earth before time to check the family from getting lost in the first place. Will (armed) and Smith both enters the bubble in search for Robinson and West, Smith having manipulated Will into thinking that the two adults are in danger. When Smith and Will come across the future Jupiter, Smith disarms Will through further manipulation and both enter the future Jupiter and controls the robot, via the remote he lifted from the Proteus. They are all betrayed by the future Smith, who is revealed to have changed into a huge space spider/human fusion as a result of the spider scratch he received on the Proteus. He knocks the human Dr. Smith unconscious, and imprisons the Robinsons and West.

West and Prof. Robinson plan an flee but Will frees the robot by removing the remote, while the rest of the group with the lifeless Dr. Smith head back to the Jupiter 2 of their time.The alternate Will soon discovers that he repressed reminiscences of Smith killing all the women and alters the time portal's size, limiting the size of a "man" that can enter. Smith then tells his plan to go back in time to Earth and spread his spider race across the Earth. Robinson soon fights Spider Smith, while Major West returns to the other Jupiter 2, without the power source, to try to empty the other Robinsons. Will fruitfully stops Spider Smith by slashing him across the face with a dagger and sticking it into the egg sac on his back, causing the baby spiders to come out and start eating Spider Smith. Spider Smith dies when Robinson kicks him into the time machine's field while it is too small for his giant form, killing him.

The family tries to flee, but the time bubble has made the planet unstable, and it is fiercely breaking apart. As a result of not retrieving more power core, the ship still does not have enough power to reach escape velocity. The marooned John Robinson watches as the Jupiter 2 is hit by remains and explodes in the sky. Future Will realizes his father loves his family, and lets John use the time portal and trip back in time to the Jupiter 2 just before it launched from his planet. The power core could only feed one journey back through time, and Future Will stays behind, wishing his family luck. Instead of trying to escape into the surroundings, John commands West to steer the ship through the planet's core as it is breaking up, enabling them to use the planet's gravity to thrust the ship through the other side. They escape, but the collapsed planet forms gravity well that begins to suck in the Jupiter 2. Once again the Robinsons must start the hyper drive; however, this time they are able to aim Alpha Prime using data downloaded from the Proteus' more detailed star charts. The film ends with the Robinsons and West activating the hyper drive, carrying the ship to Alpha Prime.

It was released on April 3, 1998. Reviews were generally negative for Lost in space, with a 25% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It is like Supernova (2000, Thomas Lee). It was rated PG13 for some intense sci-fi action.