It should be called "Star Dreck". Ugh, it was terrible! The "plot" was an afterthought and took a distant backseat to explosions and chases. Spock looked puffy at best, chubby at worst, and with the bangs looked like a little girl. He was also emoting all over the place, he even laughed without the excuse of being controlled by a parasite or spore. Seriously, so BAD! It opened with Star-Wars level CGI aliens, reminiscent of Jar Jar Binks, and then turned into a Galaxy Quest parody. Need I remind anyone that Galaxy Quest was, itself, a parody? WORST. EPISODE. EVER! I must write fast, I'm blocking it from my memory as I type... Scotty did meet an alien girl whose head looked like an ice cream sundae. Vanilla ice cream, drizzled with hot fudge. I keep telling myself it's too late at night for a bowl of ice cream. All I could think was "How nice of that ice cream sundae to help them save the crew." Maybe next movie (ugh. something to dread!) could have something a little healthier, maybe a cameo by Bob the Tomato? The cut scenes were too fast (and yet, not fast enough!) and the camera work was headache-inducingly jerky. (Yum, ice cream and jerky. It did at least make me hungry!) There were maybe four decent lines of dialogue, all from McCoy, maybe a halfway decent line or two from Scotty, but plot and dialogue clearly weren't any kind of priority. No wonder they sued Axanar, the fan made stuff is much better than the movies, although I did like the first one, and gave it some leeway to develop later on, but the development never happened and each of the two sequels were worse than the one before. No character development, no Kirk flirting with ice cream girl, no rapport between him and Spock, no real, distinct personalities for any of them. Spock was actually MORE emotional than Kirk, or Sulu, or McCoy, other than that, anyone's dialogue could have been switched with anyone else's. As a Trekkie, I am sad. Maybe the next reboot will be better, this one is a lost cause.
Review of Star Trek Beyond
