Interstellar

If you were going to make a movie about Relativity and time travel, you'd start with a few building blocks.  You'd get some good science and data to start with:  check.  You'd get some great visual effects and sounds:  check.  You'd get Christopher Nolan to direct this galaxy/mind bending concept;  check.

You'd also pencil in a budget of $165 million to land some A-Listers like Matthew McConaghey, Anne Hathaway and Matt Damon (yes!)  That's a good formula.

McConaghey plays Cooper, a dust bowl farmer at some bleak future date.  As the old joke goes, It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from here.  For a guy raising 2 kids as a single parent, his heart is not really in it.    He does have a slightly closer relationship to his androgoneously named daughter Murph.

As the dust is piling up, Murph and Coop discover a Jumaji-style puzzle that leads them to a secret launch site.  Coop just happens to be ... a trained astronaut.  How convenient!  No time to waste - an awesome jump cut to a rocket launch and, we're off.

Once in space, their mission is to travel through a wormhole to another galaxy, avoid the Black Hole named Gargantuan and minimize the effects of relativity, which is slowing down time for them while the people Left Behind age quicker.  Time is an expendable supply, like food and water.   Lots of monologue-ing as Coop pilots thorough space about the important of children, leaving a legacy, etc.   Kind of like another driver monologue

As with Inception, there's not much need explaining the plot because you probably wouldn't follow it any better.    Suffice it to say, travel to another dimension is a long trip.  Settle in for the 2:49 run time and enjoy the ride.  Here, there and everywhere.

The whole premise was very Speilberg-ish:  the quest to return home (ET), and the realistic future (Minority Report) .  Of course, the main parallels are to 2001:  A Space Odyssey which are quite clear.    Good company to be in.

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