Underwhelming (and a blatant rip-off of a popular sci-fi franchise)

Rating: 4/10 (3 January 2015)

Oh what potential this movie had. I mean what movie could go wrong with a giant, lovable, sweet, inflatable robot as a main character?? A character so adorable that grown women would buy stuff toys of it to sleep with.
But alas the execution is so scattered & convoluted that the charm factor is totally lost. Where to begin?
1. The beginning - unnecessarily long winded. The BOT fights & tech convention didn't really need to be a part of the story.
2. 4 supporting characters - woefully underdeveloped to the point of being totally superfluous. Boring and unnecessary.
3. Not enough time spent "getting to know bay max". Seriously the entire appeal of the character is that it's sweet and adorable and naively funny. Instead almost immediately Hiro turns him into a warrior to fight. And Hiro turning all homicidal halfway through & asking Baymax to kill Callaghan was frightening for a kids movie.
4. The main villain's use of the micro-bots - uninspired and boring. Seriously they can take any form and all he does is constantly shoot them in a straight line towards the heroes?
5. The flagrant rip off of "Stargate" - I mean there's an homage and there's blatant copying. A round metallic circle that creates a blueish, water-like event horizon which transports people from one portal to another??? And don't even get me started on the whole "going into the event horizon and finding the girl in some temporal dimension".
But all the adult over-analysis not withstanding, overall it was a boring labored story with a few genuine laughs here & there.