After the setup, in which the Robinson family — father John (William Hurt, looking and sounding as spaced
out as he does in interviews), mother Maureen (Rogers,
wasted), daughters Judy (Heather Graham, ditto) and Penny (a heavily made - up Chabert, looking like a junior version
of Neve Campbell in Wild
Things), and son Will (young newcomer Johnson, making the best
of it)-- and pilot Don West (LeBlanc, doing a bad Han Solo impression) find themselves lost in space after their ship is sabotaged by evil stowaway Dr. Smith (a watered - down but still - lively Oldman, cashing a paycheck and loving every minute), the script's «
stream»
of events becomes so fragmented and random that it seems to be made up as it goes along — and Hopkins does little to make what does go on the slightest bit interesting.