Part of my point is that I don't think they pulled it off, not even close. I don't think the storyline was "Ha, he looks like a dork, oh, he sure showed us!" it was "Ha, he looks like a dork... wtf just happened to reality?" The attempt at a humorous payoff at the end fails to address the dork aspect. "I guess he wasn't a dork, he really was fighting real robots"?