Episodes 2 and 3 raise the rating from 4 to 7

Four legendary directors come together to pay tribute to the vision of Rod Serling with the anthology film _Twilight Zone: The Movie_. John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, and George Miller each direct a segment based on an original _Twilight Zone_ episode. However, these adaptations don’t really live up to the original episodes, and they don’t flow together very well. Still, they do some interesting things with the material, and there are some good performances from Burgess Meredith, Dan Aykroyd, Scatman Crothers, and John Lithgow. An entertaining homage to the classic television series, _Twilight Zone: The Movie_ delivers a few chills, but it fails to capture the same sense of the fantastical.

Twilight Zone: The Movie, or as I like to call it, Racial and Juvenile Themes: The Movie. This is a film that, allegedly, is based off the Twilight Zone, but I'd say that only really applies to the first and fourth segments of the movie. I'm a pretty big fan of TZ and watching this is heartbreaking. Not because of the visual effects, but the unlikable characters, and the stories themselves.

"Time Out", as noted before, has a lot of racial tones that really show this movie's age. It's still watchable, but just keep in mind that this was made in the early 1980s.
Both "Kick the Can" and "It's a Good Life" are absurdly childish and I had to skip through them. They aren't good.
On the other hand, "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" is the classic TZ that you know and love. John Lithgow did a brilliant job here as John Valentine, expressing the mass paranoia perfectly. You should definitely watch this movie just for this section at the very least.

Overall, I can only really recommend watching this for "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" and/or "Time Out." Otherwise, avoid watching this and just stick to the TV shows.

first 3 good, last 3 bad.

4 stories. 1 is OK. 2 and 3 were boring. 4 is good. The deaths tragedy behind the movie is worth looking up. Very sad

I loved the remake of "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet". It was intense and downright frightening! Lithgow was fantastic and the gremlin was perfect.

I thought "It's A Good Life" was interesting. It's not anything like the original, but I appreciate the new imaginative take on the story (I love the original by the way). Joe Dante's direction and totally cartoonish interpretation of the story was damned creepy.

"The Bigot" was a shocking trip through a hater's nightmare. I thought it was merciless and brutal. Every time I see it I think about how unacceptable it would be to make at the same level today. I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing.

"Kick The Can" was Spielberg-soft and entirely ordinary. It's the only story of the four that I didn't like.

There are so many references to the original TV series that I lost count. Especially during "It's A Good Life" which not only mentions "Cliffordville", "Beaumont" and "Willoughby", it also stars Kevin McCarthy and Patricia Barry.