They forgot to take the robot out of the box

Rating: 3/10 (17 November 2014)

Somewhere in Interstellar is a decent 90 minute movie padded to 3 hours. I thought it might feel long; what I didn't expect was the cheap, weepy emoting and Hallmark philosophizing.
As for the padding, at least 40 minutes goes by before anyone mentions space, yet nothing of the ecological disaster is explained in any depth. No point is so trivial it can't be made ten times, no scene so long it can't be stretched beyond the breaking point. And oh, the sap – love is described as a kind of quantum effect that transcends time and space (as long as it's between parent and child).
The supposed scientific accuracy was limited largely to the depiction of stellar lensing around the black hole and the silence of space. Howevvver

Why do pickup trucks look exactly the same in the future? Why is the dust all over the trucks and house but not the crops?

That was the most ridiculous robot I've ever seen (I love the comment that it was made of "spinning HVAC ducts"). How does this lurching refrigerator even get itself through a hatch? Its interface is a crude text screen worthy of a PCjr, yet it has a complete human personality (so much so that I had a hard time distinguishing its voice from the crew).

Do you always launch your rockets from the middle of your office buildings? Remarkable how those glass partitions in view stood up to the blast.

Apparently having no idea of what a wormhole is BEFORE being sent through one, Matthew is shown the rudimentary folded paper analogy. Wouldn't that have come up on the first day of class?

How does a mile-high wave form out of foot-deep water?

The planet orbits a black hole? Where's your light and heat coming from? Any problem with the intense X-rays usually found around these things? Guess not.

On Matt Damon's planet, exactly why aren't the "frozen clouds" falling? At least Avatar posited superconducting rocks and intense magnetic fields to explain their floating mountains.

When Matt takes Matthew out to show him the "surface", just how far do they walk? The rescue pilot flies at hundreds of miles an hour for at least a few minutes.

When Cooper returns to our solar system, at least 60 years has elapsed since he received his daughter's video messages (since she is now in her 90s or more), so has Anne Hathaway been alone all that time on her planet? I don't recall any mention that she was going to be in a slow time region. By the way, time only slows down significantly in a very high gravitational field, which they showed no signs of being in.

Besides all that and much more, the plot was disjointed, with inarticulate dialog and confusing placement of people. For example, during the entire scene of the boosted entry towards the black hole, I didn't know Cooper was in the shuttle, separated from Anne Hathaway in the station, until he looked across at her.
It's not a completely terrible movie, there are some great visuals that are impressive in IMAX. But they're dragged down with the padding and cheap sentiment.