Inconsistent story about human emotions - not interstellar travel

Rating: 4/10 (29 March 2015)

Interstellar is visually spectacular and carries an important message that we must look up from the dirt and reach for the stars if we are to survive.
Unfortunately it takes the vast wonder of the universe and reduces it to some cheap action filled thrills which make little sense. Our "little" galaxy has an incredible span filled with an astonishing number of stars - anything from 100 to maybe 400 billion stars. We have the mysteries of the galactic core, the other spiral arms, nebulae and so much more - but this movie dismissed them all in favour of a fantastic journey to bizzaro worlds that defy all we know of physics in a galaxy far, far away. As soon as the crew land on the first world the over-the-top action starts where they make stupid mistakes, but then miraculously survive anyway in ways that make very little sense. Worse, the crew exploring these wonders care nothing for the amazing things they are privileged to see and experience.
Speaking of the crew, be prepared for the usual Hollywood mix of moron and genius. These are as usual people able to casually solve complex scientific problems, but struggle with simple logic and deduction in making most of their decisions.
The story of the blighted earth dying of starvation and regressing is poignant, but sadly full of inconsistencies. If only corn survived as portrayed, practically void of nutrients as it is, it would be game over. Good thing also that everyone seem to be behaving like model citizens as it looks like the military (and maybe also police?) has closed shop. So when the world collapses with mass starvation everyone just puts down their guns and gets along.
Let us also assume that although the blight is something we cannot figure out and stop, but we would not take it with us into space and to other worlds...? Why then build our space habitats on the ground in the remote hope that we'll figure out a way to turn-off gravity?!? If we have the resources to send dozens of sophisticated, long-range space missions off on a hopeless cause - why is nobody building bases on the moon? Sending people - and not least robots(!) - to Mars and busy bringing back asteroids for building vast cylinder habitats IN ORBIT!!! Worst case scenario, if you can't bring the people up, then just grow the food in space and drop it down.
I'm not even going to get into the whole future-past-paradox with multidimensional peep-rooms behind the bookshelf. In the end this movie is not about science fiction, space exploration, human survival or any of that. It is a story of love and loss designed to tug at your heartstrings and wow you with visuals sprinkled with some over the top disasters that they cannot possibly recover from...
If your switch off all your critical thinking and watch this in the cinema with low-expectations you might be able to enjoy the ride.