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The stories are ok. It's a decent enough distraction. But high budget it is not Robots and God's are designated by silvery makeup in various episodes. A bit campy.

A few reviews said it was what Heroes "could have been", yeah, right. If Heroes was low budget, boring with an UNappealing cast, this is what Heroes could have been. Sooo from that perspective I'd agree. It's just your typical low budget BBC DRAMA. (Remember, Only BBC could make Humans so mediocre that it would be cancelled after 3 short seasons.) I suppose this must be geared exclusively toward rebellious teenagers that appreciate the occasional girls undies shot and killing anyone in charge. One of the "Superpowers" is making any guy want to rape you??? It's so sad, it's not even funny. I muddled through the first couple of eps. Jumped ahead to the end of season 1, hoping it would get better, but it didn't. I completely don't understand how this gets such sterling reviews. I might try to jump to a later season and see if I can stand it any better. Just hate to throw away much more of my life consuming such drivel. Best advice I can give is, after reading the flawless reviews, lower your expectations waaaay down. It actually reminds me more of Confessions of a Window Washer adding super powers. But at least the Confessions series was actually FUNNY (And I do recommend it for the late-teens age viewer.)

Growing up, this was one of my faves. I enjoyed it much more than batman. I remember the actresses being hot and the stories being campy. We probably watched the same 10 episodes at least 5 times but it was never really boring to us. This film has some boring parts, But also some fun interactions. It would have been so much better if they had tried to get look alikes for the original actors to bring back the nostalgia or at least models to do the acting, or makeup that could make these actors look good??? The 2 actresses they chose were probably the worst aspect of the film and lead more to it leaning toward unwatchable than the effects or the sometimes failed attempts at humor. I suppose I should not have been surprised that the actors were utube personalities, of course, that explains so much! At least you know to lower your expectations way down. If they had made it more like the original in presentation it would have been much better. Obviously, with their small budget they had to do a lot of weird camera angles and cut aways to perform their special effects which hurt the film. I'm torn whether to say the effects were decent based on the budget, or they were bordering on unacceptable. I suppose they used most of the effects budget on the first couple of Electra-shocks and the supercar rental fees. The arm gag was hilarious. As noted in some other reviews, the best actor seems to be their agent. Everyone else came across as pretty amateur. To do the extreme closeups they did (because of small sets) with the poor makeup that they used, It was pretty brutal on the eyes. I just felt horrible for those actors watching their finished product and seeing every blemish,wrinkle and mole in its hi-Def glory. I can't say I would watch it again. I would be more likely to seek out the original episodes from the 70s and experience the true nostalgia. But if you have time on your hands for an 81 minute camp-fest with subpar actors...Give it a look.