Stop treating the Star Trek franchise like an amusement ride

Rating: 5/10 (18 May 2013)

Star Trek: Into Darkness, technically, has everything it needs to be a great continuation of the Star Trek name and story line but instead turns into a great example of how you can have everything and without it gelling wind up with less than the sum of its parts.
Described as reverential but derivative by other critics it left me wondering in parts, much like the first, if it was deliberately mocking itself or just missing the mark at camp.
Scenes that should have brought a cheer from the crowd passed by with groans or titters of embarrassed laughter and dear Hollywood,I know this is the year of the derivative with Oblivion and Star Trek using the same algorithms to rehash everything that came before....but I swear if I see one more....just one more chase scene with a ship flying on its side to get thru the thin space between buildings or cliff walls I am out .... because it probably means everything that follows is just as much re-hash too. Dukes of hazzard in space is DONE, get it!
On the up side its visually brilliant even if the new bridge of the Enterprise looks like a dentist office and the sound track pretty much beats down on you whatever emotions you are supposed to be feeling with almost Family Guy or Eddie Izzard like intensity. Dun du daaaaah! Oops, better be scared.
Oh....and the guy who plays Spock is getting fat face and we can't have Spock with jowls that young. I also draw the line at jowly Vulcans.
JJ Stop trying so hard to be what was or what is out now and just tell the story.