Don't believe the hype...

Rating: 2/10 (13 November 2014)

OK, first off, this is a truly dull story. What has clearly happened is that a roomful of executives have set out to make a 'Great Sci-fi Movie' and failed dismally.
Why? Well, it probably went like this:
Exec 1: What other great sci fi films have there been?
Exec 2: Silent Running?
Exec 1: Oh yeah, great. Let's use the friendly robot helpers they had in that.
Exec 3: What about the earth running out of resources?
Exec 1: You mean like in Soylent Green? OK, put that in..
Exec 4: Time travel is always good - Can we have a sequence where it goes all ethereal and a character experiences another dimension?
Exec 1: What. Like in 2001? OK. We also need some kind of strong female character..
Exec 2: Can she be like Sigourney Weaver in Alien?
Exec 1: OK. Right, what about Star Trek? I think a few phrases from that would come in handy..
Exec 3: Wormhole? Singularity?
Exec 1: Yep, and throw in a few good old American things too..
Exec 2: Baseball? Twice enough?
Exec 3: And what about an untrustworthy villain - like Doctor Smith in Lost in Space?
Exec 1: OK! All we need now is to make it fashionable enough to suck in the crowds.
Exec 4: Well we're going to need a long running time. All the best films seem to be over 2 hours now.
Exec 1: Make ours over 3 then. And get that bloke who did Inception to direct. Everyone thought that was very clever.
In short, Interstellar has stolen little bits from all the classic space and sci-fi films and stitched them together to form something that is very much less than the sum of it's parts. Emotional scenes have been ladled on thicker than a sea of treacle too - Two parent dying scenes, endless relationships with children issues, the pain of being away from home...
I really cannot see why so many people have chosen to rate this film so highly. The Emporer's New Clothes perhaps?