Just one or two comments

Rating: 8/10 (13 December 2000)

I don't think I need to go into all things that I liked and disliked about the film, merely because pretty much everyone else has mentioned them a zillion times before. However, I would like to voice my opinion on one aspect of this film: the special effects.
Unlike most reviews, I found the effects a bit over-rated. To me, CGI is becoming much too common in movies these days. The effect of this is that movies tend to become sanitized and exhibit a 'sameness' and less of a sense of realism. One reason why I like the original trilogy much more is that the ships and aliens feel more real to me. The computer generated aliens of TMP are just too outrageous for my tastes and lack a sense of biological realism. With a couple of exceptions, spacecraft and other vehicles in most movies these days seem too shiny, too nice, and look like they've been computer generated. Models still look better to me. So, all-in-all, the SFX were very good, simply over used and over-rated.