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In Reply to: RE: Star Drek. Gag me with a forklift. posted by free.ranger on May 23, 2013 at 00:39:16
So I posted the review link below of the first movie and decided what the heck - let's see how much of a train wreck this one will be. And I was waiting for it and it never came. The villain was better this go around and like the review below - this isn't really Star Trek envisioned by Gene Roddenberry but a space thriller using Star Trek as a back drop.Spoilers
I like the numerous homage scenes to the original series as well as to Deep Space Nine (Section 31), and The Wrath of Kahn, and they even managed to get a Tribble into the thing (which the reviewer I posted below noted they probably would end up doing (can't have Kingons without tribbles) and to satisfy the non Star Trek fans who do probably remember them.The thing was fast paced but the story held together and mostly made sense - They did to Kahn what the new Bond movies did Bond - they made him a real evil sadistic humorless baddy. Granted I saw this in 3D with the rumble seats at not a stupid volume and it was a hoot. Not a film - a joyride.
As joyride's go I had a fun time. This is the first movie I've been to in 2013 so I may be being more lenient than normal - but it was on par with the first movie.
Spock with a girlfriend and tears is a bit much but he is half human and I liked that it's a battle for him - shown better here than the original series in a sense.
Some lines were clunkers but that's okay because less than 5 second later something would explode so you forgot about that.
I did feel this was made for an ADHD crowd
Where they rank: (out of 5)
Star Trek: The Voyage Home (****)
Star Trek: The Wrath of Kahn (***1/2)
Star Trek (***)
Star Trek: Into Darkness (***)
Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country (***)
Star Trek: First Contact (***)
Star Trek: The Search for Spock (**1/2)
Star Trek: Insurrection (**1/2)
Star Trek: Generations (**)
Star Trek: Nemesis (**)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (**)
Star Trek: The Final Frontier (*1/2)
Edits: 05/26/13Follow Ups:
...saw it yesterday in 3-D and it was better than I expected.
A lot of suspense, action and some humor.
But in retrospect it seemed more like an SNL parody than a real Star Trek - all of these young actors who looked a little like the originals were acting just like them, but in an exaggerated way.
Bones getting frustrated when Jim wouldn't take his advice, Scotty exclaiming the generators won't take it and Spock being his unemotional self- too funny.
...I found it to be a loud, frenetic action adventure story shot on a Star Trek set with a lot of the characters going by the same names as characters from previous Star Trek productions. It was really loud and frenetic too.
We'll see how it holds up when viewed on the small screen and on a second viewing. The pace is fast probably to try and jam in everything they could in the limited running time. But it took enough breaths and the acting was generally solid from Kirk/Spock. I'd rather see a bit of a larger than life baddy in Kahn - Ricardo Montalban had pinache.
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