Entertainment for the non need for cognition audience

Rating: 6/10 (22 May 2013)

As a reviewer who has not watched any of the star trek videos growing up as a child, I guess I had low expectations for this movie. I did not watch the series, because I knew it had corny fight scenes such as the actors awkwardly dodging lasers in narrow hallways as they hold their lasers by their hips.
Corny, if I could summarize the movie in one word, I would say that was the word. Whether it would be restoring the entire power of an entire spaceship with a single button or fixing the jigamajigger flux capacitor by banging it a few times, I can say I had more convincing action sequences as a kid playing legos.
I would say, what made the movie worthwhile were the complexity of characters, drama and international relations. Spock for example was always at a conflict with himself and the emotions he had little of. By the end of the movie we see characters develop, personality change and an intriguing complex fountain of the star trek science fantasy world that I have come to appreciate.
I did get into the scifi aspect of the movie, I really did, but how could I enjoy a movie when the action sequences chose to obey the laws of cartoons rather than reality. For that, I give it a 6/10.