Rachael MurphyStar Trek
May 14th 2009 14:46
I am not a Star Trek fan. I just thought I had to get that out there before I went anywhere with this thing. I have admitted in the past to being a nerd and I am not now denying that fact but I am a very specific kind of nerd. I am the kind of nerd who already had Lord of the rings on DVD but bought the extended editions when they came out. I am the kind of nerd who loves comic book movies and is generally disappointed by them when they eventually get to the big screen but I am not a science fiction nerd.
OK and here is the crazy part, I went in thinking I am going to hate this and I will never talk to anyone again who told me I should go to see it or all the movie mags that rated it high but it proved me wrong. I actually sort of enjoyed it even. I am most certainly going to hold back on the five star reviews that were bandying around the place before the movie got its full release but I didn't hate it. I would even go so far as to say I like it.
It has take me a week to sit down and write this review, I think that is because I was in such shock before that I couldn't out it into words. I was do determined that I was going to hate this movie that the fact that I like it really threw me off. I didn't know what to say. You see the day before I went to see Star Trek the aforementioned boyfriend sat me down and made me watch The Wrath of Khan[/I apparently the
best
of the movies so far. Ten minutes into that movie I wanted to peel open my head and take my brains out so I didn't have to see anymore. Apart from a few unintentional, very comic moment( Kirks extended yell of Khannnnnnn with a facial expression common man might have thought impossible being just one) I have never enjoyed a movie less. I am opened minded about these things, I have even watched and enjoyed [I]Star Wars but having seen that there was no way I could possibly enjoy any sort of star wars movie, surely.
The movie is like Star Trek the beginning or I think it is, I claim absolutely no prior knowledge of these movie I have only watched the one and true I could have done some research but then again I didn't. Anyway it is how Captain T Kirk became the man he is today. How he established he friendships and how he betters his fathers record of being Captain of a Star ship for 12 minutes and saving 800 people. I won't tell you whether he did better or not I wouldn't want to ruin it for you. That is thrown in together with some time travel and a alien species bent on revenge against Spoc for a crime he has not yet committed and what you end up with is a pretty interesting movie.
Now this review is not for die hard fans it is for the other part of the population who are just looking for something good to see when they go to the cinema. I cannot speak for those fans but as far as I know it is lacking something for them. When I went to see the movie as many as ten people stood up and walked out of the movie. I am not really sure what it is they are missing from it, maybe it is that they change everything from the originals or that in some places they make fun of the formula, I don't know and in fact that is one of the things I enjoyed about it. I wouldn't go so far as to say that it is satire but it definitely doesn't take itself as serious as previous movies have done,
I loved Simon Pegg as Scotty, I might even forgive him for How to Lose Friends and Alienate People . I am not in that place just yet but now its a possibility. He was witty in the role and brought a good comic element to the film just to prove to us that it wasn't too series. (Maybe it was when he gets stuck in some sort of drain system that was too much for the fans?) I don't really need to single him out though, the whole cast were great and they all slotted into their roles like they had been watching the show their whole lives. It probably sounds stupid to commend actors on acting but what I mean is that they looked like they were having fun with the roles, like they were all playing a giant game of Star Trek and having enormous fun with it. i think that is part of why I enjoyed it so much, everyone was just having a good time and they made me have one too.
There are flaws in the logic of the movie but I think they are supposed to be there. You occasional wonder why someone did something or how the blasters really work but the movie is good enough for you to let those things go. This movie is for everyone. Boldly go where only trekkies have gone before.
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