This movie was much more than I expected!!

Rating: 9/10 (21 May 2009)

The movie starts with a Romulan ship called '' Narada ''attacking the Federation starship USS Kelvin, where we see Captain George Kirk ordering an evacuation while he resists bravely to Narada's attacks, to cover his crew going away. In one of the ships, is George's pregnant wife, who gives birth to James T. Kirk. Many years later, we see a young,smart and rebellious Kirk wasting his life until he is invited by Captain Christopher Pike to join Starfleet. Pike knew James' father and gets very interested in James' potential.
While the years in the Academy passes, James becomes friends with Leonard McCoy, and also is accused of cheating on the Kobayashi Maru test by Commander Spock, a brilliant Vulcan responsible to create the test. ( A test that no one ever passed, by the way!) While in James' audience, the Starfleet receives a signal from Vulcan asking for Help, but James knows something is not right, and even being forbidden to travel in a mission, with the help of McCoy, he has success entering the Ship, where a lot of things and surprises are about to start.
I never really watched the ''Star Trek'' series (unless if you counts watching random scenes of the series while my father was watching) and I only know basic things about the characters, but even so, this movie was a big surprise to me. I didn't expect much of it, specially because I watched this film in the movie theaters only because the ''Angels & Demons'' sessions ended before I could buy my ticket, but you know what? I ended up having a lot of fun, and I liked even more then ''Angels & Demons'' itself.
The story is entertaining and mixes well comedy and action. The characters are charismatic, the new Spock is hot, and they choose actors who are very similar to the old ones. (It was cool to see the old Spock on this movie too, by the way!) A great thing about this movie is that they did it in a way, that a person who doesn't know well the Star Trek story and universe, could understand everything just fine. It's very funny to see the discussions and the competition between Kirk and Spock before they were friends too.
I don't know if the movie pleased the fans of the series, but I liked it a lot and I totally recommended it! I also believe that if the movie went so fast to the top 250, is because more people are enjoying then hating, so my opinion has a point. =)