GenFX

Less of a follow-up to the original series and more of something new and largely awful. Rather than being set in a 1930's "England" the series is set in modern day. Barring a couple of primary characters retaining a British accent (often very poor ones at that) the voice talent speaks in an American accent.

The plots for episodes are nowhere near as tight and take far more liberties with the source material than the prior series. This is understandable given the books both series are lifted from are limited in number. However there is very little of the spirit for those books brought into Next Steps.

The animation has shifted from hand drawn to CGI and the look suffers slightly. It is mostly well animated but lacks character and very much like any other cheaply produced show on PBS and other kid outlets.

Kids will love this none the less, adults who remember the old show might feel it is cloying and dumbed down.

I have tried to re watch this... whereas TOS is just sorta campy SF combined with Mormons In Spaaaaace, this was just a bad idea star to finish. Even as an 11 year old who thought TOS was about the best TV show ever, Galactica 1980 was unforgivably bad...

Sure it was low budget. But good writing might have solved some of the shows problems... well barring the awful premise to begins with. It is more insulting to SciFi fans than a show catered to them...

However... I should say something good about it... when SciFi airs it it is an hour we do not have to watch an infomercial....

Except maybe the informercials have higher production values and script standards...

This is a favorite movie of mine to watch. Shrimp on the Barbie is a stardard fish out of water with Cheech Marin as a down on his luck Mexican American in Sydney. He then is brought into a scheme by the poiled daughter of a tycoon to fake being her fiance so her ultimately worse pick of a fiance looks better.

There are some logic gaps that defy logic, but between these moments are some funny bits that glue the movie together. It is a low budget comedy, so this is to be expected.

Is it a must see? Probably not. But it also isn't 90 or so minutes that you won't feel like you wasted either.