Everything was cliched and stereotyped

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I agree.
The portrayal of male characters in this movie is cliche and disrespectful. This movie suggests that all men are just shallow bundles of muscles, occupied with nothing else than looking better than other men to have sex with women. Also, it suggests that men like misleading women in an effort to take over the universe.

Not all men want to build super guns to rule the universe. Come on Hollywood, that is so sexist!

So what? It's just a movie. The reality is that all your explorers were men. It wasn't CHRISTINA Columbus or FELICIA Magellen who discovered new lands. NANCY Armstrong wasn't the first human to step on the moon. Would you want the next Bond film to feature JANE Bond?

Deal with it. I'm tired of women whining about inequality. So, a film doesn't have strong lead roles. Big deal! Get over your own insecurities.

I loved the animation but this was really cliche and so "by the numbers"

It's like they could have done a really cool movie about aliens on Earth, But they just ended up doing a prison movie. This could have been anything, Monsters, humans, animals caged, Anything.

Not to be a nitpicking pain in the ass here, but Scorch might have been the "hero" - but honestly, he was dumber than a cardboard box, and his brother Gary, the reluctant "supporting hero", while brilliant, for the most part lacked decisiveness.
The baddie was a deceptive megalomaniacal male, and the female (alien) he decived turned out not to be very nice at all. She was overpowered by another female - the only character that actually seemed to have brains aswell as brawn - Gary's wife (who while during the time the movie takes place is a stay-at-home-mom, but we clearly find out that she was once a rocket test pilot...you know, your typical female profession, right?).

So to sum up the main characters...
Mostly flawed male characters: 4 (including the brilliant but often reckless kid).
Mostly flawed female characters: 1.
Mostly UNflawed male characters: 0.
Mostly UNflawed female characters: 1.

You (as in the general you, not you personally) look hard enough for something in a movie and you will often find it. Movies, like books and plays, are very subjective, and whatever you bring to it while watching it will colour your view of it.
Simply put; you look for stereotypical superior-male-symbolism, and you'll find it.

I noticed that the only people that disagreed with you are men. That guy who said men are in charge and always will be must not look past his door step. Women in power: Margaret Thatcher Prime Minister of England, Dilma Rousseff President of Brazil, Sheryl Sandberg Chief Operating Officer of Face Book etc. I think I will reply to the idiot.