2 movies in 1, unfortunately

Rating: 6/10 (24 December 2011)

Wanna watch 2 movies for the price of 1? Do you like movies that start out about one thing and then end up about something completely unrelated? If so, you'll love this movie because that is practically what you get here.
For a while I thought this movie was going to be about killer robots that murder everyone in the past in a hilarious fashion. Somehow I ended up being wrong about this. I guess the fact it was rated PG should have tipped me off, but hey, I'm an optimist. But then the movie turned out to be about something way more boring.
The acting was good. Nothing wrong there.
The visuals seemed good. It did not seem cheap, but at the same time, there was nothing to really brag about.
The story was really what lost points for this movie. For one, it was too long. They should have cut it down by 25%. Furthermore, the story just seemed to transform from one movie to another by around the mid-point. And it was not really in the surprising sort of "OMG, that's so cool" way. It was more in the "WTF is this movie supposed to be about?" kind of way.
If I was to pick a few words/phrases to describe the movie, I'd choose: cute, nostalgic, unexpected story transition, not about murderous robots, too long