This movie was just silly. Perhaps it was intentionally trying to embrace the sci-fi B-movie vibe. If it was, they nailed it: bored acting, half-assed story, the waste of a great premise. Also, for some reason, when getting close to the black hole it turns out black holes are actually big magma storms. That is, until they went through the hole, then there was some sort of twist ending where they decided to get philosophical/theological and enter heaven and hell territory. Weird.
The good part, unlike the robots in Silent Running, the robots in The Black Hole were enjoyable for the most part. They were just as impractical, or almost, but they talked, which at least added a bit of charm.
