There is something a little cheap about returning to the beginning of a franchise - remember in Episode One, when R2-D2 showed up, and you knew that there was just so little substance to the movie that they decided to pack it instead with misguided nostalgia? That's a danger of prequels.Well, Star Trek is all nostalgia. Every fifteen minutes, you meet another character you already know. Lots of lines got big laughs from the opening-night audience I saw it with, and I assumed that the ones I didn't recognize were were also in-jokes for the Trek fans who made up a large portion of the audience.
I'm not saying I didn't enjoy watching the movie. I did. Every actor impressed me. Because I think they are better actors than the original cast (well, the one obvious exception is Leonard Nimoy, who is about the same. No, maybe a little better, although he seems to have a bit of a denture problem? Am I making this up? It seems like he's always afraid his teeth are going to fall out) and they managed to play these characters we all already know, and be true to the original, but take themselves seriously, but not too seriously. Also, Chris Pine is very pretty. And he's in a zombie movie that's coming out this fall.
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I absolutely agree about the dentures. He looked terrified at every moment. It's a horrible way to live when you think about it.
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