Into Direness

Rating: 7/10 (19 October 2013)

Well, at least this is better than Star Trash from 2009 imho, right from the off it's noisy, eye-catching, even absorbing, and can make you forget about your own mortality for a couple of hours. All good thingshowever! No matter how colourful or action-packed the cartoon is overall it's as vapid and vacuous as the space between us and the Klingon Empire.
I didn't really enjoy Wrath Of Khan or any of the other movies either, I'm a confirmed old TOS-er now; why retread old ground adding nothing new but new film technology. Why can't they invent new myths for the younger generations? Baddie Benedict Cumberbatch plays a rather snooty Khan to goodie Chris Pine's rather snotty Kirk – one looking like an old work colleague of mine who had an evil eye the other like an old English soccer millionaire who had glass legs. How humdrum all the characters are though – the baddies aren't enough to frighten us now, cgi special effects have taken their place. And there is some jaw-dropping cartoonery in here, from the first appearance of the Enterprise to the other starship crashing on the city – where will all this "realism" end? Pity about the unoriginal story though! Billions and billions of innocent bystanders slaughtered again to the sound of popcorn and ringpulls. It's amazing the bad guy didn't smash into the twin torpedoes of Kirk and Khan as he was being sucked out of the same airlock at the same time – the smash might've created a new particle. All the physical objects, the moving parts, even all the running about people did - another positive for the original Star Trek was that they took teleportation for granted!
Flat, dull, stale and unprofitable (to experience). But still, it's a better way to pass two hours than in cryogenic storage, possibly.