This is the type of movie that made me fall in love with watching movies. It's fun, has an engaging plot and a number of different plots that are just fun to witness. I really really like how, even though we as an audience have grown accustomed to finding man with evil plans at the centre of a new anomaly, this movie doesn't reveal it's cards too hastily. Rather it builds the ambience of the massive ship Cygnus, accompanied by an amazing soundtrack by John Barry and stellar production values, and reveals the mystery bit by bit creating the mystery and it's revelations at the same time.
I enjoyed almost everything about it, from the robot sidekick subplot to the miniatures and robot designs to it's action sequences that it lets loose in the last act. If only the sense of intrigue and wonder had been kept at the same pace as the rest of the movie, even then it ends spectacularly, going almost mystical upon us.
I wish Disney made more movies like this and this is for me, easier to recommend then Star Trek: The Motion Picture (only saying this because they both came out in the same year and were even nominated for Best Visual Effects together) especially because it's just that much more fun.
