Star Trek - 2009

These days it’s rare to watch a film when you leave the cinema with an overflowing quantity of exuberance and joy so it was a pleasure to watch Star Trek. It gladly retains its geeky sci-fi flavour for all those Trekkie fans and there were plenty of those in the cinema cheering each time a scene relevant to the past Star Trek genre appeared especially when Leonard Nimoy who gets to reprise his familiar role as Spock the human/Vulcan hybrid. Pine, Quinto, Saldana et al all gave justice to their respective characters except for Chekov, who let alone sounding the part, didn’t even look the part, nevertheless this didn’t impact the overall movie. Star Trek has always catered for the public even transcending racial boundaries and in the 1960’s this was big so even Star Trek then was well ahead of its time. This movie is no different but has catered for the old fans as well as the new and considered so uber cool thanks to the youthful sexy crew.

However don’t expect a really great story-line, it’s not about that as much as it’s about laying down the foundation for the relationships about to develop between the crew of U.S.S Enterprise.

The special effects are awesome however maybe a tad too much. Watching it on big screen can mean you get lost in the major scenes. Nevertheless these days that’s a given with movies if they are to meet box-office success and with movie-goers expecting nothing less. I must admit for a moment the A40 was space and my Peugeot transformed into the U.S.S Enterprise even excelling to warp speed on a few occasion on the stretch of the A40 where speed cameras were scarce.

So good film, lots and lots of action, eye candy for those bothered (Ahura for the chaps) and a over-all feel good movie for those who love the Star Trek genre series/movies and no doubt J.J Abrams has kick started a series of movies which will win new fans as well as old.

BTW look out for “Bones”, in terms of most plausible original character, Carl Urban has got Dr Leonard “Bones” McCoy nailed better than any other character in the movie as he demonstrates in the line “Dammit Jim, I’m a Doctor”.

Go watch it!