It's a noisy cartoon, Jim.

Rating: 7/10 (13 October 2013)

That I've got all 80 episodes of the original marvellous TV series on a titchy flash stick would have had Mr. Spock's eyes go round with wonder. I used to love those moral and intelligent stories with beginnings, middles and ends but by now Star Trek has now gone where no older man should really follow. This is cinema purely for kids of all ages or people coming across Star Trek for the first time with admirably open minds.
Young and brash James Tiberius Kirk comes of age as the Captain of the USS Enterprise spaceship, picking up his to be famous crew one by one to reboot the franchise, sorry, legend. On the way they have many loud and chaotic adventures, the main problem coming from a Romulan renegade from the future intent on making Spock watch his home planet Vulcan be destroyed. Belief must be suspended for the duration of the film but especially when young Kirk meets old Spock in the ice cave; it was so sloppy it had me too transfixed to laugh. At least Spock had his false teeth in.
The cgi cartoonery is slick, relentless, fantastic, brutal, confusing – in fact everything that is required nowadays, acting and physical sets are adequate, but of course the story comes a solid last as usual. Why couldn't the rogue Romulan and his crew on their trillion trillion dollar spaceship go back in time to save their planet from destruction instead of looking for a dubious vengeance for its said destruction? It's the ridiculous graphics that take the attention – as soulless, heartless and pointless as all the other bloated cartoons made nowadays – King Kong, Prometheus, Hobbit etc. There's nothing here that has added to the original series or inspired in me anything other than to watch the original series again – that at least was Star Trek after all. It looks good, isn't dull and passed the time for me, somehow. Ah well, now for Into Darkness!