Why so much hype?

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

It's the year 2525. The earth's surface has been taken over by machines called Baileys. Mankind has been driven underground. Hel (Gina Torres) and Sarge (Victoria Pratt) fight the Baileys under the directions of the mysterious Voice. They barely survive their comrade who turned out to be a Betrayer robot. At a mutant medical shop, they save Cleopatra (Jennifer Sky) who is a stripper cryogenically frozen in 2001 after a botched boob job. With their reprogrammed Betrayer named Mauser, they survive the labyrithium underground world of mutants and dangers like Joker-esque villain Creegan while fighting against the machines up above.This is a campy sci-fi TV. The premise has good potential with a dose of Terminator along with some wackier sci-fi. The execution is campy with scattered humor. Jennifer Sky tries her best to be fun with pop culture references. She ends up with a lot of squealing. Victoria Pratt is all about her abs. Gina Torres is solid. The half-hour format allows the shows to be a quick flashy action meal and the hour-long episodes do drag a little. Overall, this is stripper-tastic but it's by no means good. The sexy trio does keep one's attention and that reworked 2525 theme song is hella catchy.

A crazy spin-off for guest stars of Xena, so I watch. A stripper who's cryogenically frozen to the future? A little off, but I watched anyway. It really was a 1 hr show in 1/2 and hour and it crewed it up. They finally gave it an hour because Jack of all Trades was dumb. still liked it even though it was silly. It had potential. Someone said the things that controlled the surface's ship looked like the female repro system. I ad to admit it did and it's about time. Most of those things look like phallic symbols in other shows, what a shock. Jennifer Sky played Amarice on XENA, V. Pratt played Cyane, and Gina Torres played a variety of people on XENA and HERCULES. They deserved some air time, lol. It's cancelled now, but I liked it.

Oh, they *did*. Never have I been so happy to hear that a show had been canned. Tapert and Raimi, HANG YOUR HEADS IN SHAME.You can see where the concept for this came from. A cryogenically frozen stripper waking up in a dystopian world *could* have worked, had it been done with post modern awareness and huge panache. There was a parody in here trying to get out, but it was clubbed to death in committee. There are so many sub-genres and shows that could have been gently tweaked while Cleopatra 2525 found it feet and carved it's own niche, but they made the mistake of trying to play it straight from the start, and failed miserably.The three leads are blank faced and anonymous, with no real character or presence, and they either can't act, or aren't bothering to try. The title character is Jar Jar irritating, the scripts are adolescent fanzine quality, and the dialogue is simply nauseating. The premise and outfits suggest titillation will be on offer, but Cleopatra doesn't even have the courage to make good on that promise.Other Action Pack shows make a virtue of their cheesy natures by involving the audience in the joke. Cleopatra instead tries to deny it's own essential idiocy and presents itself as straight faced science fiction. It's not charming, or quirky, it's simply drab and awful, and it should have been drowned at birth rather than allowed to slither its way onto the screen. BAD Action Pack! BAD!

From the setup (a young woman is cryogenically frozen in 2000, is defrosted more than 500 years to arrive in a world overrun by a terrible threat to mankind, and falls in with heroic freedom fighters) to the characters - particularly our heroine, who's very cute in a Chiana-from-"Farscape"-but-non-albino kind of way - "Cleopatra 2525" is as close to a live-action cartoon as any TV series in recent years has come. This in itself is no bad thing, especially since animated shows have long been worthy of more attention than they often get... but unfortunately the show isn't exactly on the level of "Batman," "Gargoyles" or even "Mighty Max." In fact, it veers closer to the quality threshold of "Rude Dog and the Dweebs" - with Cleopatra very definitely being the dweeb in this scenario. It might actually play better if it was animated, and its half-hour length wouldn't seem like so much of an anomaly (the show seems a bit rushed and compressed at this length, perhaps because half-hour action shows haven't been widely made in live-action for decades, whereas in animation they never went away and hence they never lost the knack). But while it can't compare to the Slayer, the Warrior Princess, Seattle's Dark Angel or even Townsville's Powerpuff Girls, you have only to watch "VIP" or the later episodes of "Lexx" to realise that it could be worse. And my thanks to the uncredited people responsible for the special version of the horribly depressing and depressingly horrible "In The Year 2525" - most of the words are changed and the tempo made more upbeat, resulting in a vast improvement over the original. Not that I'm sorry the show got cancelled, but at least it got something right.