{"id":4323,"date":"2009-05-10T00:00:21","date_gmt":"2009-05-10T08:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=4323"},"modified":"2009-05-17T14:03:17","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T22:03:17","slug":"star-trek-jj-abrams-2009-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=4323","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek (J.J. Abrams, 2009): USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by William Conlin<\/a>. Viewed at the Camino Real Cinemas, Santa Barbara.<\/p>\n

\"\" For over 40 years the Star Trek<\/em> franchise has been a television and motion picture standard. When the first Trek<\/em> film opened in 1979, it garnered three Academy Award Nomination. \u00a0But as the years progressed, the franchise lost its edge, culminating in the disaster that was 2003\u2019s Star Trek: Nemisis<\/em>. But after a six year wait, die hard \u201cTrekkies,\u201d casual fans and people completely new to the series will be surprised, thrilled and thoroughly entertained by J.J. Abram\u2019s amazing reboot, simply titled Star Trek<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

By taking some liberty with the holes in characters’ histories and adding some \u201calternate universes due to time travel\u201d ideas, writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman have created a whole new world featuring the original crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise. When rebel turned cadet James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) finds himself onboard the Enterprise in the middle of a crisis, he takes the opportunity to try to save the universe and establish himself as the best and the brightest that Starfleet has to offer.<\/p>\n

The film follows traditional ideas from Star Trek past, but updates the series to accommodate what appears to be the future from today instead of the 1960\u2019s. The incredible production designs by Scott Chambliss, combined with the special effect created by Industrial Light and Magic, craft a vision of the future that will make any person sit up and pay attention.<\/p>\n

Although I\u2019m not a devoted fan of the series, I have seen my share of Star Trek,<\/em> on both the small and big screens so I was able to pick up on plenty of inside jokes in the film that will surely make a die hard fan smile. Additionally, the entire cast treats their characters with great respect and admiration for the people who portrayed them before. To me, the standout performance was Karl Urban\u2019s portrayal of Leonard \u201cBones\u201d McCoy. His blending of DeForrest Kelley\u2019s distinct attitude with a modern twist places the character in a great position for both drama and comedy.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d like to think that after last week\u2019s embarrassment that was Wolverine<\/em>, Star Trek<\/em> will mark the true beginning of this summer\u2019s movie season. Trek<\/em> is so good that I am sure I will be seeing it at least one more time before it leaves theatres and will certainly own it when it comes out on Blu-Ray. Even if you don’t like the series, go see this film, and you’ll be pleasantly surprised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by William Conlin. Viewed at the Camino Real Cinemas, Santa Barbara. For over 40 years the Star Trek franchise has been a television and motion picture standard. When the first Trek film opened in 1979, it garnered three Academy Award Nomination. \u00a0But as the years progressed, the franchise lost its edge, culminating in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}