Excellent Movie.....But I Hate Zoe Saldana

Rating: 9/10 (22 August 2010)

I did enjoy this movie when it first came out in theaters last summer, and also loved how the cast was put together. I thought that Chris Pine was excellent as the new Captain Kirk--a cavalier and handsome womanizer that seduces green women and thinks on his feet. Zachary Quinto was fantastic as the new Spock--he fit the role like a glove and was the logical and cool-headed Spock we have all grown to love, but with a quick temper and he's not afraid to show it. It was also interesting to see the new Spock (Zach Quinto) with the original Spock (Leonard Nimoy) in the same movie! That was pretty cool and to see that Leonard was still the same graceful actor that he has always been. Sulu and Chekov were excellent, and Simon Pegg as Scotty was just hilarious and he was my favorite....as well as Karl Urban as McCoy: he was just like the original McCoy with a little bit of the same attitude that you get with Dr. House. My only problem with this film was Uhura. I cannot stand Zoe Saldana at all: she's not particularly pretty or talented. She completely ruined Uhura for me by being this frigid bitch with a stuck up attitude and a Barbarella boot in her ass. I understand her wanting to make Uhura more assertive and authoritative, but she was completely wrong about the way she approached it, and instead made Uhura stuck-up, cold and bitchy, and seemed kind of useless aboard the Enterprise. The original Uhura used her technical skills to save the ship from crisis, while the new one basically just looks and acts frosty, and then goes and slobbers all over Spock. If I had been the director, I would have called her agent and replaced her within two days.
The special effects were excellently done, with great technical skill and none of the campy and cheap retro FX from yesteryear. and it was a great reboot of the franchise, and it'll be interesting to see what JJ Abrams will do next.