'Star Trek' Movie Reviews
By Captain Pyke | May 3, 2009 - 4:09 pm
We scoured the internet looking for reviews of the new J.J. Abrams film 'Star Trek'. We wanted to find the good, the bad, and the ugly. Here's what we found so far.
Look out for Star Trek to be the first of the summer blockbusters. It's wonderfully exciting sci-fi entertainment that will appeal to long-term fans of the legendary TV series and also those just looking for an entertaining night out.
The great thing about this new Star Trek is that it is reassuringly familiar while at the same time subtly and impressively different. This Star Trek is heading off on an alternate trajectory and I have to tell you it is going to be an action-packed journey. Read the full article.
Kirk's Enterprise has never looked better. These guys took the original ship, combined it with some designs of the Enterprise-B, then mashed it up with Picard's Enterprise-E and then added a dash of '60s non-Trek Sci Fi. The set design, however, is almost all touchscreen (like TNG), but with a tremendously updated UI. I'd hate to call it Apple-y, but there's lots of glass and slick white finishes. Retro this is not—you'll barely be able to equate the bridge to the original's, other than the fact that the players are all sitting in the right places. Why Bones canoodles in the bridge so much instead of where he's supposed to be is still beyond me. Read the full article.
History may be mutable in the new Star Trek, but some things don't change. Spock is logical, the female officers wear miniskirts and Scotty (Simon Pegg) complains about the ship's overworked engines. Chris Pine's baby Kirk doesn't yet have the eccentric charisma of William Shatner, but who knew Bones McCoy (Karl Urban) was so raffish, while Zachary Quinto's Spock is an uncanny emulation of the original without becoming a karaoke turn. Read the full article.
"Star Trek" went above and beyond my expectations of it, and may be the first big blockbuster of the year that really deserves its hype. This introduces the cast of the original series in a different way, starting from the day that James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) was born and how he got involved with Starfleet. It also introduces Spock (Zachary Quinto) and his struggle as a child to choose which race (human or vulcan) he belonged to. This is not the calm and cold Spock that we watched develop into an emotional being; instead he starts out having trouble containing his emotions and struggling with love and fury. Read the full article.
Paced at warp speed with spectacular action sequences rendered brilliantly and with a cast so expert that all the familiar characters are instantly identifiable, the film gives Paramount Pictures a new lease of life on its franchise. Read the full article.
Without sacrificing the majesty of Gene Roddenberry’s humanitarian ideals or the humour that is Star Trek’s salvation, Abrams’s film is a rollicking space adventure that makes you fall in love with the original series all over again. It shows how the Enterprise crew came together to avert the Romulan threat and, more importantly, how Captain Kirk, the incorrigible young rebel, and Spock, the conflicted half-human, half-Vulcan genius, forged their lifelong friendship. And with Spock and Uhura getting it on (the first truly interracial kiss!), there’s even the hint of a love triangle still to come. Read the full article.
