It helped when I forced myself to think of it as a separate entity. I mean it's not canon, it happened in an alternate reality. When I kept that in the back of my mind and just watched it as any sci-fi flick with Star Trek in mind, I really enjoyed it.
It didn't feel very "Trek" at all like I predicted. It's heavily action packed and heavily comedy oriented, neither of which fits the movies particularly and especially not the series. I have to say though I don't think I've ever seen a bigger action movie. It was insane all the action scenes, but I really did enjoy them.
The only things that I really hated was Simon Pegg and the SpockxUhura relationship. Funny really, I love Simon Pegg, but he was the absolute worse Scotty imaginable. I'm convinced I could play the role better than he did. Spock and Uhura? Where in the Hell did that come form? Not only did it not fit, it didn't make sense. I mean what, did the meet while Spock was teaching at the Academy and happen to fall in love? It felt like it was their for just some fanservice or shits and giggles.
The comments on the internet about the actor who played McCoy and how bad his use of "McCoyism" were I totally missed. I think there were what... three McCoyisms in the movie and none of them were delivered awkwardly.
All in all it was a great movie as it was, and might even be a decent Star Trek movie, but considering all of the series and the movies it was mediocre. Just depends on how I want to define it.
DeForrest Kelley did that in every movie and it was very abundant in ToS. You could argue it was out of place there to begin with, but as far as emulating Kelley, emulating McCoy, is was pretty spot on.Tekka wrote:You didn't think McCoy went into overkill on the "Damn it man!" "I'm a doctor not a blah blah blah.", etc? Every time he was on screen it seemed like he had to say one, it was awful.