Fun, but distractively poor dialogue

Rating: 5/10 (1 March 2015)

This movie in general was a fun family movie, but it really asks you to suspend disbelief and tolerate some pretty poorly-written dialogue.
The dialogue was especially bad in the early parts of the film when it felt like a lazily-written sitcom trying to economically tell you the backstory with unnatural and exposition-packed lines to explain the characters, their relationships to each other and their backstories.
Because this is based on robots and advanced scifi technology it is a little difficult to get a true feeling for the world of this story.
Character choices are a little bit confusing at times as well. For example Hiro invents the very technology that is turned against him (for reasons not really explained), and instead of making use of this technology he created to combat it, he turns to other inventions created by his brother and friends.
Unfortunately I guessed two of the major plot "twists" very early into the movie so the enjoyment factor was somewhat dampened by that as well.
This probably sounds really negative. It's not. This was an enjoyable movie to sit and watch with the kids, but even they were scratching their heads at some of the story elements, so more intelligent writing would have served this movie well.