Stereotypes, prejudice, clichés.

Rating: 1/10 (17 March 2013)

I didn't even bother watching the whole film. What a disgrace to Star Trek. It is full of clichés, American stereotypes and prejudice. This is not Star Trek, it is Independence Day, or Armageddon, but much much worse. I will not list the plot holes here like others have done (like that fact that they wouldn't have known about the Romulans yet!), but I was bothered by other things.
The first thing that made me go "oh no" was that corny scene at the beginning where the Captain sacrifices himself and the ship to save his wife and newborn baby, but he gets to hear the baby's screams before he dies. How original. I got annoyed. And then...
The girls at Starfleet Academy are wearing skirts, like Asian school girls. There is college dorm sex. The Russian boy (he looks like 12), Chekhov, has an awful exaggerated accent to add some comic relief, that falls flat. Kirk is not likable on any level and I didn't think the acting was that great. The women of Star Trek have always been respected, professional, yet here they are merely turned into sex objects. You would think that in the year 2254 they would be past all these things, the sexism and the prejudice. Like someone else said I too have always seen Star Trek as a future we shall aspire to. But not this, it was like stepping back in time to watch Road Trip or Not another teen movie, with a lot of explosions. Also, what are Star Fleet cadets doing at a bar in Iowa? The Academy is in San Francisco!
A little research and a desire to reach above simplistic, Hollywood college/action movies and this film could have been so much more. How the hell did these filmmakers get their jobs?