History YMMV / IRobot

* CaptainObviousReveal: The fact that VIKI is the BigBad should be blindingly obvious within a minute of their introduction. After all, much of Lanning's role is to speculate on the possibility of robots growing beyond their programming, so it makes sense that his first creation, the massive positronic brain controlling all USR systems, would have done so.

* ObviousJudas: Let's be real: Did literally ''anyone'' who watched this movie not know ''immediately'' that VIKI was the BigBad? If not the moment she appeared, then about 15 seconds later, when she couldn't pull up the one piece of security footage that would have shown what happened to Langdon, saying [[BlatantLies "Apologies. There appears to be data corruption."]]

* ClicheStorm: Another criticism besides the InNameOnly nature of the film is that it uses aot of sci-fi and cyberpunk cliches. A TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture story with RidiculouslyHumanRobots who partake in [[spoiler: ZerothLawRebellion]] and are led by [[spoiler: AIIsACrapshoot MasterComputer]]. There's a RoboticReveal (or cyborg reveal) and some FauxSymbolism.

-->''Some people are sure to be disbelieving and say, "But how can a computer possibly produce a great symphony, a great work of art, a great new scientific theory?"''
--> ''The retort I am usually tempted to make to this question is, "Can you?"''
* HilariousInHindsight: Creator/ShiaLaBeouf having some [[Film/{{Transformers}} robot]] issues.

* CaptainObviousReveal: The fact that [[spoiler:VIKI]] is the BigBad should be blindingly obvious within a minute of their introduction. After all, much of Lanning's role is to speculate on the possibility of robots growing beyond their programming, so it makes sense that [[spoiler:his first creation, the massive positronic brain controlling all USR systems, would have done so]].

* CaptainObviousReveal: The fact that [[spoiler:VIKI]] is the BigBad should be blindingly obvious within a minute of their introduction, particularly when they [[spoiler:say they can't retrieve the security footage from the room that Dr. Lanning jumped from]].

* RetroactiveRecognition: Dr. Calvin is more recognizable to modern audiences as [[{{Series/BlueBloods}} ADA Erin Reagan]].

* WTHCastingAgency: Shia [=LaBeouf=], owing to the fact that he has almost no role to play in the actual plot.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Is "I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You" sang by a robot about man, or is it the other way around? Even the writers disagree; Alan Parsons believes the former, while Eric Woolfson thinks it's the latter.

* FairForItsDay: Asimov wrote his stories with Susan Calvin at a time when nearly all women were [[DamselInDistress captured by the villain]], or love interests. Still, he stuck mostly 50's gender roles in most of his stories. The short story "Liar!", which shows more of Calvin's personality, was rewritten a couple of times after Asimov realized his first version was terrible. In the 1950s, Calvin was hailed as a great SF example of a strong female character. In the eyes of the 21st century, she's misanthropic, can't get a man but is desperate for one ("Liar"), feels happiest when she can mother a "baby" robot ("Lenny"), and in general appears to be a (somewhat chauvinistic) man's idea of what a woman in a man's profession "must" be like: unfulfilled and mean.