Too much of everything

Pretty Good

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

No wonder this never got past the pilot! The characters (with the exception of Kryten) are generic looking, acting, and speaking with none of the wackiness of the UK version; UTTERLY uninteresting.The jokes fall flatter than an amoeba in a centrifuge. Even the jokes ripped straight from the UK version are delivered so badly they don't even elicit a smile.No understanding whatsoever of UK RD's "trench humor". The music adds nothing.The whole mess is just... PUTRID BEYOND WORDS!Ho1ywood* just cannot seem to make any kind of comedy except banal machine-gun-rapid "spray stupid sex jokes and hope a few work", sort. Compared to this the minute long "Pigs in Space" segments of the Muppet Show were absolute masterpieces!* misspelling intentional

Red Dwarf, like any established sci-fi show carries a baggage of nerds with it - they attend filmings, conventions and book signings. They don't realise that they make up a tiny proportion of any show's audience.Given that, it's no surprise that the RD nerd crew did not like the US pilot. The main reason seems to be the recasting of Lister, who was in fact played by a fine actor who fitted into the role well. I understand that Chris Barrie was asked to do the US pilot but declined, while Cat was always going to be a US actor, another factor to upset the nerds.The things that spoil the pilot are:-Dreadful music. Poor editing, especially the inclusion of the UK scenes at the end.Overall, I laughed out loud several times, yet when watching The End I only managed a chuckle at one line.

This has to be one of the worst adaptations of any program I have ever seen. The acting is wooden, there's no spark between the characters, and the jokes are purely recycled.The pilot episode takes jokes from across the range of the BBC series, and tries to compress them into one episode, failing miserably.The actors who play Lister, Rimmer and the Cat try hard, but they just cannot achieve the same level that the original actors had. Kryten looks purely uncomfortable acting with them, and the whole cast lack the camaraderie that the original crew have.If you're new to Red Dwarf, watch the original. If you're a die-hard fan, don't even bother with this version.

Oh dear. They tried, but I'm afraid that a 28 minute pilot in Britain DOES NOT GO INTO 22 minutes. Well it would if you didn't have an extra character, more plot and changing lines like "My library books are overdue" to some rubbish about Baseball cards. Too rushed, too short - the only redeeming features being Jane Leeves and of course the always excellent Llewelyn.