Her Movie Reviews

This review is going to make me very unpopular. Let me just advise you now, if you are a trekkie and don’t want to read a review by someone who has never watched a single episode of the show, do not read this. Consider yourself warned. I mean it, stop now! Because I do have a tendency of getting Star Trek and Star Wars confused quite frequently, and I make no apologies for that.

I learned one thing about myself from watching this film: I prefer my movies to take place on planet Earth, and preferably not in the future. I can see how people who watched the show, or other movies, would really love this. I totally get it, I’m just not one of them. The acting was great, the effects were unbelievable, but I just didn’t follow along with the story. At times the effects were overwhelming and I couldn’t keep up with it. Spock and his crazy time traveling confused me. And I continually had to ask who people were, and why they were doing the things they were doing. It all made sense to someone who understood, but since I am not a trekkie, I felt very out of the loop. Chris Pine was great, and no one can deny that Zachary Quinto played a spot on Spock! Simon Pegg is great, even if I couldn’t understand anything he said, but I thought his alien sidekick looked more like a tree stump than an extra-terrestrial.

I am just not a sci-fi person. It doesn’t do anything for me. But if you’ve watched the show, or enjoy this particular genre, I’m sure you’ll love it! I do happen to know several fans who will probably want to prosecute me for saying the things I’ve said, but there you have it (and please forgive me for how vague this is, as we watched it right before Thanksgiving, and the tryptophan may have wiped some of the details from my memory a bit).

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