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As the crew repairs the ''Palomino'', they discover that the ''Cygnus'' is not only functional but inhabited by a crew of faceless robots and their human commander, Dr. Hans Reinhardt, who intends to take the ''Cygnus'' into the black hole to see what awaits him on the other side. However, they discover something more sinister behind Reinhardt's preparations, and they must race against time to escape before their own ship becomes mere collateral damage in the quest of an apparent madman.
The movie contains very clear homages in style and plot to ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]],'' and it's possible they originally intended to create a similar "proverbial good science fiction film". The success of ''[[Star Wars]]'' meant that assorted cute robots were crammed in, making the tone direly schizophrenic (the shooting gallery scene is a particularly obvious addition).
Many consider this film to be Disney's biggest flop (which lead to countless jokes about the company's money being tossed into the titular hole), and that it represents everything that was wrong with Ron Miller's leadership of the company. In actual fact it made $35m on a budget of $20m, so it did earn a slight profit for the company; nonetheless, not very many people regard the film as one of Disney's finer moments. Indeed, along with one other movie that was released the same year, it was the first ever Disney movie to be given a PG rating; something that ultimately would lead to the creation of Touchstone Pictures in 1984 (with the PG-rated ''[[Splash]]'' as its first release).
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