Movie Review: Star Trek

To answer the esteemed Musical Daddy: it was awesome!  This movie cleverly repackaged Star Trek for a new generation.  First thing's first: all the famous one liner's were there, and they didn't feel out of place at all.  All of the personalities of the characters were spot on for how young rambunctious versions of themselves would be.

That being said, this movie had a very different feel compared to the series or even the past Star Trek movies.  The Star Trek series tended to lean more on science, ethics, morality, politics their episodes, while the movies were usually vehicles for exploring more grander philosophical questions.  This movie was able to do both, but leaned less on the philosophical.  There is one scene...which I won't spoil too too much, but there is one scene in the movie in which all the characters pause to consider the grander philosophical question...and then we move on.

The movie was very fast paced, and I feel like the director used it more as a vehicle to pay homage to the previous movies, while wanting to do something bigger or more different with the series in the future.  There were several scenes that were reminiscent of the past movies: Wrath of Kahn and The Undiscovered Country in particular (I felt).

The new theme song is a little brassy, but it doesn't take away from the movie.

This movie is not the original series.  If you go looking for the same thing, you'll find that it has been revamped with a couple extra doses of realism and is significantly more fast paced.  If you go looking for great science fiction, with special effects and space battles: this movie does it best.

It was Star Trek, but it was newer, fresher, and gave a great background for what the next movie will hold.