To boldly go
I’m working on a ‘professional’ post to be posted soon but in the mean time I have some comments on the Star Trek movie that I saw, and tweeted about this evening. As many trek fans were I was skeptical about JJ Abrams taking over the franchise and making it into an action movie.
Any errors in continuity were solved in the first 5 minutes with time travel so I can’t do a rant about any errors in canon. While the movie was more of an action movie that anything Star Trek it fit with what they were trying to do with the reboot. All in all it kinda seems like a comic book movie where you know where all of the characters are supposed to be and are just waiting for them to move through the story from their current places to where they belong.
In short the movie was great and i really enjoyed it, there were enough in jokes for the hardcore fans but doesn’t go on so long as to become one big inside joke for the entire movie to alienate people who don’t know everything about the series. Other than Chekov (who was kinda joke character) I thought all of the casting choices were good and the relationships made sense with a little bit of a stretch here and there to make things interesting.
The movie definitely goes big on what the antagonist wants to accomplish and how they want to accomplish it which in previous movies was a problem but works out well here as they don’t seem to over do it. The comedic aspecs were well done and tasteful and added to the overall flavor of the movie in the way that they should in this kind of sci fi.
Overall I was impressed and will be excitily awaiting the next one (more so than the new Transformers of GI Joe movie for sure).