I watched the new Star Trek last night finally. I have mixed feelings about it.
It was good overall action movie, but it could have been so much better. They obviously spent too much time on special effects and action, and less about the characters themselves. It was interesting to see the young characters, how they came about, their struggles, etc., but not enough time was spent exploring these areas. Things advanced so quickly it didn't give us time to really follow the character growth. This movie was simply meant to be a big box office hit with nice special effects that makes the crowd go ooh and aww and throw in the catch phrases from all of the characters at least once to get a good chuckle.
Many people don't like star trek (the original show), but I was a fan. As funny as Captain Kirk and spock were and how ridiculous the fight scenes were, etc., the show served many purposes, one to show that we are all humans and racism, etc. will be a thing of the past (the show came out during the time of the civil rights movement, it was a head of it's time with multi race cast, the first ever interracial kiss on American TV, etc.) and it also was intended to make us viewers think. There simply wasn't much thinking required for this film.
