This movie is a humorous, moving little jewel. There's not a sentimental or maudlin moment in it, the cast is terrific, the performances and direction nuanced...and the script is *archetypal*, not "clichéd". It's a hero's journey in miniature. With jokes!
What it is not is a pandering teen flick, any more than Chris Pine is a teen idol.
I'm agog at some of the reviews here. I rented this movie because Chris Pine is so fabulous as Kirk that I wanted to see him in other performances.
I saw some very subtle echoes of Wm Shatner in Pine's Star Trek performance that apparently others didn't, so I wanted to see him in other roles to gauge what he was doing on purpose and what might simply be aspects of himself that coincidentally resembled Shatner.
Well, the man's an actor; there's no Kirk in this movie. I am so delighted and cannot wait to see the next Star Trek flick, and anything else Chris Pine does.
What it is not is a pandering teen flick, any more than Chris Pine is a teen idol.
I'm agog at some of the reviews here. I rented this movie because Chris Pine is so fabulous as Kirk that I wanted to see him in other performances.
I saw some very subtle echoes of Wm Shatner in Pine's Star Trek performance that apparently others didn't, so I wanted to see him in other roles to gauge what he was doing on purpose and what might simply be aspects of himself that coincidentally resembled Shatner.
Well, the man's an actor; there's no Kirk in this movie. I am so delighted and cannot wait to see the next Star Trek flick, and anything else Chris Pine does.