Pure garbage

Rating: 1/10 (11 February 2010)

This film is alright if you're a little kid who doesn't want a film that's as good as something like the Dark Crystal. In fact... why not rent that instead?
Not even kids should be subjected to this dreck. It's a bad cartoon masquerading as a Star Trek film. There's nothing in it but the flimsiest of bad characters, a plot even a 4th grader could have done better with, and a flavor that makes Aspartame seem enticing.
Someone called this "ADHD addled". Addled is a great word for it. All action without conflict. To have conflict, you have to have a legitimate problem. This film's only problem is that the cameras are rolling.
People have compared this with the very disappointing Episode 1, and the comparison is pretty apt. Both films dumbed down to a target kiddie audience. But, Episode 1 is the better film, marginal as it was. At least it had better visuals and a few minimally interesting moments. Trying not to laugh when a teenage girl in a goofy faux-Asian getup pretends to be "oh-so-serious" in a monotone is one of them. Seeing children lead the adults -- a walking commercial for products, is also amusing. There is none of this even marginal aesthetic appeal here. It's a TV movie compressed into a bad commercial. It's bad because you can't even identify the product.
The saddest thing of all is the utter butchery of Spock's character. These people couldn't rest until they destroyed the most interesting person in the original series. It's a good thing Gene and Majel didn't have to see this.
I'm asking myself why I devoted to many words to this "film". As with watching it, there's no way to get that time back. A better review would just be one sentence: "don't bother".