Critic Reviews

Silliness limits this cartoon, which forces actors to take a back seat to know-it-all KITT (voice by Val Kilmer).

Knight Rider is something for 12-year-old boys (and 12-year-old-boys at heart), undemanding, unsophisticated, no deeper than the thickness of a comic-book page.

You've got to figure that it doesn't bode well for Knight Rider given the fact its human stars--which also include Sydney Tamilia Poitier, Paul Campbell, Bruce Davison and Yancy Arias--are eclipsed by computerized graphics and an emotionless hunk of sleek metal.

["Gary Unmarried"] has lots of laughs. But not as many as tonight’s episode of the new Knight Rider.

A show that delivers every ounce of cheese its package promises, if not the recommended daily allowance of calcium.

Knight Rider arrives tricked out with just enough eccentricity to avoid utterly craven stupidity.

I'd be inclined to dismiss this as lighthearted children's fare, like David Hasselhoff's original "Knight Rider" from the '80s, but the violence, dialogue and skin shown on this version aren't exactly kid-friendly. Not even kids should have to suffer through this, though. Here's hoping KITT and crew get booted.

Knight Rider is a disaster, a remake so deliriously and delectably bad that you have to watch just to tell your grandchildren that you were there.

You've heard of artificial intelligence? How about no intelligence, which is the sum total of what went into transforming a 1980s TV show nobody cares about into a new, updated version nobody will watch.

Seldom has a major network launched a show boasting as many terrible performances or jaw-dropper moments as this premiere.