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Good review. I think the main culprit here is whoever wrote the screenplay. Effects good, actors capable, costuming & music fine -- script abysmal, deeply unfunny, and crass as hell: cringe before cringe.

At least the song Will Smith did for the movie was good

The radio series is my definitive version, followed by the books, then the TV series. The film is awful - I understand why they aimed it at a more American audience but all the British eccentricity was lost. I still have all my cassette recordings of the original radio broadcasts and they still sound great.

Linda Thorson‘s Tara King was the best - so beautiful!

This film is 15yrs after the series - Ricardo Montalban did not age well.

Honestly if you take out the ableism and the unfortunate transphobia, this wouldn't be so bad. It's just too off-kilter to be a blockbuster.

Completely disagree. This is a great movie. A fun, "what the heck comes next" popcorn movie. I don't care if critics hated it. It is so much fun.

I watch this movie in the theaters as a kid, I think for some reasons the giant mechanical spider and all of loveless machine just fascinate me and I enjoyed the entire movie and had a great time cause I guess giant mechanical spider looks super cool as a kid.

Seenem !

As a Pen and Paper Roleplayer since 1982 at the age of 11, all of my fellow Roleplayers over the decades have agreed that this is a Perfect 'Roleplayer's Film'. Even though the filmmakers weren't gamers, they still managed to capture the 'Romp of the Imagination' that is the cornerstone of what makes PnP RPG's so compelling.

To this day one of my all time favorite TV series. Loved the humor and the 4th wall breaking. Because of Magnum I started to grew a beard.

Mr. Sheffield once mused to Niles that before he met Miss Fine he never thought he would have need for an emergency transvestite, but much like Joseph Joestar trying to enter the base in Mexico, that seems to be Plan A with these two.

The song Wild Wild West sampled a Stevie Wonder tune, so of course it slaps. :D Also, Will Smith is such a charismatic actor (his real-life antics notwithstanding) that this movie is still watchable, even if not very good. Plus...Salma Hayek.

Huge fan of the comic and Dave Stevens so I saw this right when it came out (it was the first film shown at the then newly restored El Capitan theater) I absolutely loved this film even though they toned down the character of Bettie Page to Jenny Blake. James Horner’s soundtrack is one of his best!

I used to watch the show in reruns as a kid and absolutely loved it and when this came out I purposely avoided this film and I think I’ll continue to avoid it.😂

It's kind of amazing that such stunningly ill-conceived projects as this ever see the light of day.

Anyone else enjoy this movie ironically?

I saw this in the theater. At one point this guy in the row in front of me stood up and said, "Horseshit!" and then walked out.

I'll be honest, I think Wild Wild West is a terrible movie, but kind of a guilty pleasure anyway. I've rewatched it at least a few times....it's one of those movies that bad but entertaining enough. I'd probably give it a 6 out of 10.

I recognise it isn't a "great movie". Having since seen the TV show it was based loosely on, I can even see it was a terrible movie adaptation of a pretty cool show. But - and this is important - there is a 15 year old version of me who couldn't get enough of this movie when it came out back in the day, and for 40+ year old me it'll always be a guilty pleasure. For better ir worse, I can sit down with this movie any time and enjoy it as much as the first time I ever saw it.

This movie was awesome as a kid and going back to it now its just a fun turn you brain off time

Britain and France working together to carve up the USA - why not? They worked together to carve-up the middle-east. How do you think all those straight lines came to be drawn across the deserts...?

I like it, its cartoonish. But i also like waterworld were kevin costner seems to be the only person taking it seriously. Hated independence day.

Well thanks for rewatchign this so I don't have to. I think your compilation of many of the scenes represents about what I reember of the film, so that's enough.

"Tom Cruise being Tom Cruise." You mean Tom Cruise having two of his movies in the top five in 1996?

Great review I’m glad your not blindly hating on this movie for no reason like some people

The best reaction I heard about this film was a review that was titled, “Men in Bleccch!”

Really cool mechanical spider, totally wretched in every other sense. Watch the end with the spider and skip everything else.

I love the space program! I can’t believe it’s not NASA!

It appears to have been made by people who never actually watched the show, which, BTW, was heavily in syndication in the 70s. The script is garbage. The special effects are not good, as was pointed out by critics at the time. Most of the roles were miscast. Salma had already done Desparado, From Dusk Till Dawn, Fools Rush In, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Faculty, Dogma and many others. The idea of Artemis in drag was actually based on a joke made by Robert Conrad to the makers of the TV movie The Wild Wild West Revisited (1979). They hadn't watched the series so they didn't know it was a joke and used it in the movie.

Its a shame. All of the clips I see of this film. Look like it should be good fun.

7:47 "self-interest is the natural order of life" - Ayn Rand?

WWW would have been 10X with George Clooney not Will Smith as Jim West. Kevin Kline could of done his Gordon role well.

Seriously why they did not made a live action movie of the épisode of fireflash. It might be the most recognizable eposode from the serie.

I grew up with the original series, in syndication (I was an infant and toddler, when it was in its original run), which was fantastic. Well written, imaginative and with great actors doing their thing. This was complete shit; poorly written, crude, dodgy effects, and a cast of actors tying to polish a turd. An Evening With Kevin Smith highlights the central problem: Jon Peters. His bad decisions and obsessions threw this down a sinkhole. The sad thing is that if they had been true to the series, it could have done great business and had a lower budget. It's a litany of Hollywood excess. The series was hardly forgotten, though. It lived in syndication through the 70s and had a pair of reunion movies, which were highly rated, in the 80s. It was being shown on the TNT network (if memory serves), to great numbers. Watch the original series, especially the Dr Loveless episodes and then compare Michael Dunn to Kenneth Branaugh. Dunn, as Loveless, was a fine actor, with wit and charm, a beautiful singing voice and he relished the part. Loveless was a rare sympathetic (or almost sympathetic) villain, who had cause to rail at a world the devalued him, because of his size. His Dr Loveless, no matter how extreme, was believable. Don't get me started comparing Ross Martin to Kevin Kline. I like Kline, but he does not compare well. Much was made of the idea of a black secret agent, in the period of the film and it would have meaning, if this had any sense of reality; but, it is pure fantasy, so you can let it slide. Problem is, this Jim West is an obnoxious jerk, which doesn't endear him to audiences. Robert Conrad's Jim West was smooth and deadly, with just the right amount of smirk. I went with friends, to see the movie, which is the only reason I didn't walk out.

'Harry Potter shot'? I don't think Harry Potter had been invented in 1984.

Attempted Steam Punk

Funny you should bring this up. I’m making a comic where I mix this and men in black called “Aliens West”. The men in black hunting aliens in the old west. #alienswest. I’ll make this movie a hit for sure.. 😂 (it paused homage to South Park too, it’s competition)

King of the Rocket men

I like it!

As far as I'm concerned...this was the last Doctor Who episode...What a great one this is!

Another great vid. Keep them coming

The Two Doctors makes terrible use of Troughton. He’s the star of the show in the opening scenes in the space station. But then he’s incarcerated and then he gets turned into an Androgum so he’s not even exhibiting the personality that was so fun to revisit in The Three Doctors. His character is also more abrasive and less playful and whimsical than we are used to.

In the TV series, Loveless was played by the superb Michael Dunn. This guy, however. . .

I was a teenager when this movie came out and I enjoyed the hell out of its first summer on HBO. The chemistry between West and Artemis wasn’t great but there were plenty of good jokes in this movie. Kenneth Branagh’s Loveless was on par with Gary Oldman’s Zorg from the fifth element and you get to see Selma Hayak’s ass. Better lead casting might have made this a totally different movie.

This was kind of like the Lone Ranger. A mega-flop.

The TV show was original, stylish, even hip, especially those superb opening credits. But this thing. . .

Sorry for being a smart ass, but cast iron is brittle, meaning it’s anything but unbreakable. You can shatter it by hitting it, so no unbreakable piñata here.