It’s 100 years in the future and things on Earth are bleak. The only crop farmers are able to grow is corn. Seriously…corn. On top of that, there are huge dust storms that occur constantly covering houses, buildings and people. Simply put…the Earth is dying.

The only hope for mankind is to find a planet which can sustain human life or we will go the way of the Snow Leopards and the Polar Bear…We will become extinct.

When ‘Interstellar’ directed by Christopher Nolan, who wrote the script with his brother, Jonathon, opens we meet farmer, Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) living with his young, brilliant daughter, Murphy ( MacKenzie Foy), his teenage son, (Timothee Chalamet) and his father (John Litgow). Murphy and her father are extremely close and she shares with him that there’s a ghost in her bedroom. She hears noises and has translated them into Morse code. They realize that someone is sending them some kind of signal. When Cooper and Murphy go to investigate the source of this anomaly, they discover, hidden away, a downsized NASA, led by scientist, Dr. Brand, (Michael Caine) and his daughter, (Anne Hathaway) Turns out Brand is Cooper’s former teacher. Imagine that.

Brand tells them that the only hope for mankind is to find a planet that can sustain life. They discovered a worm hole near Saturn, have sent ten manned crafts into it and received three messages that three planets look promising. Brand convinces Cooper, much to the dismay of his daughter, to jump on one of the ships and check them out. Of course Cooper agrees or we wouldn’t have a film. Brand sends along his daughter, as well as two other astronauts to keep Cooper company.

‘Interstellar’ which is almost three hours long, is a film with big ideas. Perhaps too many ‘ideas’ including black holes, quantum physics, Einstein’s theory of relativity, as well as the theories of Stephen Hawkings and physicist, Kip Thorne, who was an advisor on the film. But it’s not all about science. Nope, in the end, it turns out, it’s all about love. Rounding out the cast is Jessica Chastain plays Murphy all grown up is She’s become a brilliant scientist, with major ‘Daddy’ issues, working with Dr. Brand. Interstellar” which opens in theatres Friday November 7th, 2014 is a film, that in my opinion, takes on too much. I found myself at times bored, at times interested and waiting for the aliens to appear.

Unfortunately, they do not. For that reason, I gave ‘Interstellar, 3 bagels out of 5. Check out the Two Jews On Film video for more of my thoughts.