Inclubabu Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Francene Odetta It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

butlerstc I watch it like once a month. Very well acted and perfectly cast. Its also a great drama, comedy, romance - and has a clever sense of self awareness. I always find new things in it whenever I watch - very thoroughly done. I can quote this movie almost line for line, "but everything is perfect now, and everything will always be perfect, so why does it matter when things weren't perfect?" I haven't read the book, so I don't know how much of the dialogue is drawn from it - but I love the dialogue. So simple and naive. I like how there are no "good guys" in this story, its just a character study. John Savage wasn't anymore more moral at the end of the day then the people in the perfect society were. He was naive too in his own way. He was kind of the opposite of the Ford worshipers - they suppressed their emotions and he was carried away by his... I also like the idea of trying to build a perfect society - this story is as close to a "Utopian" scifi as I've ever seen. Even though it is ultimately dystopian, it is not as bleak as dystopian stories usually are. I feel like the major flaw in this dystopian society was hierarchy. This is the tragic flaw of the otherwise perfect little social experiment they had going - is that it was ultimately still based on hierarchy and dominance and submission within its roles - just more refined and sleek so it wasn't as obvious and noticeable as other dystopian fantasies. This mini series is painfully underrated. One of my favorite movies/mini-series ever! S

Robert Gold I have taught the novel several times, and I know it rather well. The novel is infinitely better in every way, but at least the 1980 version attempt is interesting to watch and to compare it to the text.The 1980 version is flawed as is the 1998 version, but at least the 1980 version sticks to most of the plot most of the time. You can still understand the message Huxley was getting at despite its lapses in terms of adding characters and changing some story details. It helps to have read the novel before seeing it, but to a viewer who has not read it, the viewer would get most of the ideas found in the text.One big problem I found: Linda was not bloated and old and horrid looking enough. When she returns to the "other place," she hardly looks any different than any other beta female. Also, if she hadn't been given blood transfusions and hormones as in the novel, she would have shown signs of aging. Here she looks like her son's girlfriend, not his mother. The actor playing John also appeared to me to be too old; the character is supposed to look younger. I did like the fact that this version was much more ethnically diverse. The 1980 version is basically "white bread."I have shown my students the 1998 version, as I only recently discovered the googlevideo.com site having the second version. I would like to get a copy to show some of this one too.

SNLgirlie Aldous Huxley would be ENRAGED that his WONDERFUL literary work has been defiled in such a manner. This is a disgrace. A horrible mini series and is the worst adapation of a book I have ever seen!!!

aromatic-2 If you haven't read the book, this 1980 made-for-TV rendition will do quite nicely. It strikes the right balance between humour and futuristic melodrama to hold interest but always remain credible. Julie Cobb is hysterical in her supporting role, and Jonelle Allen is wonderful. It does a great job of illustrating Huxley's vision of what could be the future, and its potential downside.