Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

JoeB131 I remember this show from when I was a teenager. Of course as a teen, I remember how hot I thought the Asian babe was in my pre-pubescent way. Now I realize she couldn't act her way out of a wet paper bag, and not surprisingly, this is one of her few IMDb credits.Okay, long and short of it, this was the bad old days of the 1970's, when animation was too expensive to do for kiddie shows, so they got no-name actors to drive around in a really cool RV visiting all these people dressed in rags and eating dirt, apparently. I think it was trying too hard to be cool, with a multi-racial cast and giving the characters biblical names.The show also featured appearances by washed up actors working for Booze money, including Lost in Space's Jonathan Harris, Gilligan's Island's Jim Baucus, and Robbie the Robot from Forbidden Planet.Today's kids are much luckier, the writers actually treat them like they have brains.

cyclone259 I haven't seen ARK II in years and so my memory is cloudy as to the moralistic / preaching slant to the show, although I can believe it.As a child, I remembered loving the 'futuristic' R.V. they traveled in and some of the other gadgetry. I also recall 'Robbie The Robot' somewhere in the mix, although I'm not sure if he was part of the permanent cast.As I said before, I don't recall the overt dogma of the show, but after watching one re-run of 'Shazam!' recently on TV Land, with it's awful production values and tent-revival dialogue about moralism it makes me thankful that for the most part that era has passed for network t.v.

william-cordova-1 ARt II was as silly as it was great entertainment for children. Yes, the show oozed with Biblical themes and moral issues but it was smarter than most programs today. That might be because today more children have access to technology that can deprive a developing imagination.I don't think many children saw Ark II as adults saw it at all. Most kids watched the show because it had a cool looking van and it was set in the future. Not because they were dictating moral standards....It might seem that way today since we have become so desensitized.Here is hoping that ARK II comes out on DVD one day soon. it wouldbe nice to see it live on and inspire some other young artist to graduate from Yale University....oops was I talking about me:(

Brian Washington This show came out right on the heels of "Isis" and "Shazam" and just like those two shows it served as a weekly morality lesson. The basic premise of the show was that after Earth has been destroyed by years of pollution and nuclear war, a group of young scientists and a talking chimpanzee are sent out to seek out survivors and help them get started on rebuilding the Earth and at the same time teaching them a valuable life lesson. Now, if I want morality lesson I would either go to my parents or to my priest or minister. This is another example of how children's shows went downhill after parents groups said children's shows had to become more relevant. However, if these same parents would take the time to tell their kids the difference between right and wrong instead of making it television's responsibility, maybe there wouldn't be as many problems in the world as there are today.