Star Trek - Movie Review and Synopsis

From the first scene the Star Trek universe as we knew it has changed forever. Kirk is now an angry wayward young man looking for trouble. A young Spock is tortured over his mixed heritage, the emotions he fights to control and the very different paths he has before him. He must choose between the Vulcan world which will never accept him as anything other than ‘half human’ and Starfleet Academy, worlds away from everything he has ever known. We meet Dr ‘Bones’ McCoy and a young linguist Uhura at the Academy and watch as a headstrong Kirk wreaks havoc on Starfleet’s rules and regulations. The fleet is called to arms as peril aims at the heart of the Federation and Kirk and Spock are irrevocably pulled together to save the galaxy – for the first time.

One look (okay maybe two) at the trailer and it’s safe to say this isn’t your grandfather’s Star Trek. With a Spock vs. Kirk fist fight, steamy sex scenes, Shaun of the Dead cracking jokes and is that Harold from Harold and Kumar (!?), this doesn’t even come close to being your older brother’s TNG. Early reports call it “phenomenal”. So, perhaps handing this tired franchise over to the young Mr. Abrams may have been just what it needed to live long and …

Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action and violence, and brief sexual content.

Director: J.J. Abrams
Stars: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: 8 May 2009 (USA)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi