Sorry, this movie sucks

Pretty Good

Memorable, crazy movie

Crappy film

OMG can't believe i've found it at last i watched this series every sat as a kid.Could never remember the title until now,please bring out a DVD!!!!I would love to watch it again but where do i find a copy????? I've always loved things about Egypt and "otherworld" made my imagination run wild,its bugged me for years and years.I can't believe they cancelled ,it was on one minute then just stopped without warning i was gutted.I always hoped they'd do re-runs but never saw any,some one said that it was shown on the sci fi channel. Would be great if it could be shown again just for old times sake.well it must of been good as it was shown over here in england and i know other friends my age who liked it!!!!!!!!

I watched this because there were only meager pickings available in the sci-fi genre, but even at the time I thought it was lame. The family, meant to represent the average American family, was just plain boring. Putting boring people into interesting situations doesn't magically make those people interesting.The premise had promise, but would have worked better if it was either (1) aimed squarely at pre-adolescent children, or (2) involved a group of friends stuck in Otherworld instead of a family. Who wants to have a fantastic adventure in a strange land, but have to drag their parents along for the ride? The only episode that sticks in my mind is the rock n' roll one where the kids sing "I wanna hold your hand" on stage - one of the corniest moment in 80s TV.

I saw this show when it was on, for it's very short run, when I was a little kid, and even then I could see the huge plot holes.A "typical American family" touring Egypt finds a local boy who offers to show them an unauthorized tour of the Great Pyramid, on the day of an eclipse, and the boy suddenly stops in the middle of the pyramid and demands more money. When the family refuses, he extinguishes the light and leaves them alone in the Pyramid, where the eclipse happens and they are mysteriously sucked through into another dimension/world.Now, at this point it seems vaguely akin to Sliders or Stargate SG-1, which treated the concept of other worlds and ancient Egyptian space/dimensional travelers much better, however here comes the big problem.They are barely arrived in this new dimension, where they land in a huge desert with a single road going through it. A futuristic car drives up and out of it comes some strange official-type person, who tries to arrest the family and is quickly beat up, looted of some strange crystal, and the family flees.Apparently this official was a very, very high ranking leader of the "Zone Troopers" this world, and that crystal was a huge, powerful command permit that gives its wielder nigh-unlimited authority over the computer and governmental systems of this world, which turns out to be huge set of vastly different "zones" with different cultures and peoples, all policed by the "Zone Troopers". Also throw in some bit about how they are trying to go home by following a series of obelisks that have the "eye in the pyramid" sign found on US Dollar bills on them that leads to a mysterious capital city they hope can send them home.This is all in the first 10 minutes of the pilot. This leader will be a recurring nemesis as he follows them trying to get his crystal back, but like Colonel Decker of A-Team fame, he's always 3 steps behind.Now, in one of the episodes the son does poorly on a test at school and is promptly drafted into the Zone Troopers. Bad, but it's worse when he finds out that conscription is for life, unless he can excel at the training program so well he's made an Officer and is allowed to resign immediately.Suddenly, that crystal goes from being able to shut down massive power grids, rewrite any computer file, open any lock, override any command, and being nigh-godlike in the system to being ignored. The dad just says something about "I can't use that to get you out of every little problem you get yourself into, you have to take care of these things yourself." The dad just arbitrarily decides to let his son be drafted, probably for life, on an alien world just because he failed a test at school, and decides not to use the plot-device uber-permit (mainly because it would completely shortcut the episode) but it makes the dad look like a real jerk.So the show sets up that the main characters don't have to worry about the bureaucracy of the new world they find, which they decide to arbitrarily ignore early on, and make the main characters look either incompetent or uncaring. They couldn't make it 8 episodes without completely backpedaling on one of the main concepts of the show?

As a television show, Otherworld was a train wreck. And like a train wreck, it's hard to keep one's eyes off it. In trying to portray the typical American family, fallen into a different dimension, they take the viewer to a hideously different dimension of bad taste and poor acting.Because of this short glimpse into how people in another universe fail to entertain or be entertained, I myself became an addict. It actually had some interesting stylistic touches in those few moments when it wasn't being completely predictable and offensive.Highly recommended for someone searching for a diversion from British Science Fiction programming.