MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis

While this is not the best in class, it is a bit of a hoot when you get Brian Blessed and Richard Dean Anderson playing off each other. How could it be any otherwise? The premise is wonderfully silly and the walk through war torn Europe pointless, but over all the characters are clear and well-defined. The aristocratic baddie, the amoral professor, the smart heroine who needs rescuing, and of course MacGyver who out parodies himself with some wonderful made up solutions, it is hard to predict any of them.

Was it great? Well, it was great fun and still worth watching just to see Brian Blessed's larger than life acting. I am a huge fan of MacGyver, but those purest who whine about this being awful, really are missing the point. From the mullet hair cut to the overzealous Professor to the idea that together they are 'historians' is a bloody hoot! Great escapism that only the 90's could bring us. See it and enjoy it.

As a fan of Stargate SG-1, I watched MacGyver to see Richard Dean Anderson. The character of MacGyver is very similar to his current character in Stargate, Colonel Jack O'Neill. He has the same sense of humour,same characteristics and the same attitude towards people. In fact the only difference that I noticed was that Mac is a whole lot smarter than O'Neill. ( More along the lines of the IQ of Major Carter than O'Neill.) Examples of this are that the dialogue was so predictable in parts for anyone who watches Stargate. Maybe it's just me but that's my opinion.

This tv-movie picked up right where the series ended and did a great job of delivering another MacGyver adventure! There's lots of great acting by all the cast, and some pretty cool music too. There's plenty of action and of course classic MacGyverisms! A triumphant return for MacGyver to television!

This is an adventure featuring MacGyver's high-minded mentor, played by the great Brian Blessed.

Remember the Jupiter Effect? When the planets aligned in the 1990s all heck was supposed to break loose. But they didn't really align and the books and videos about the Jupiter Effect have gone on the rubbish heap with books on Y2K and 2012. Fear mongering really looks stupid in retrospect. It'll happen with Global Warming one day (when I was in school we were fearmongered into believing we were barreling into the next Ice Age; that changed on a dime and now sounds quite quaint. And now all the teachers of the next Ice Age ate dead and I alone have escaped to tell thee.

Too, the Greek word for fear is Phobos.

Still, exciting novels and movies have been made out of worse nonsense, so this Raiders of the Lost Ark knock off (More Roger Corman than Spielberg) is fun and exciting with several places for MacGyver to show his ingenuity to make something out of nothing. But he's not the man he was when the series started.

It actually has pretty good effects for a TV budget. Though the planets are never that big nor so perfectly aligned.

I'm actually watching this right now. It's on BBC1 at lunchtime on a Sunday, and it is ideal fair for a lazy Sunday afternoon. Forget the comparisons to India Jones - it's a TV movie, it isn't supposed to be oscar quality, or even quality that you'd pay money for. If you liked MacGyver at all, you'll know what to expect, and you'll like this. Nuff said.