Star Trek: Critic Reviews

An epic adventure that deftly captures the spirit of the original series, while succeeding utterly in charting a new course.

With a crew like this, you can welcome the future.

A bright, shiny blast from a newly imagined past.

Fast-moving, funny, exciting warp-speed entertainment and, heaven help me, even quite moving - the kind of film that shows that, like it or not, commercial cinema can still deliver a sledgehammer punch. It sure didn't feel like a trek to me.

hen it comes to sheer spectacle, Star Trek, as re-imagined by J.J. Abrams, delivers.

A movie that, against all odds, has miraculously resurrected a wheezing but beloved franchise.

Trading on affections sustained over 40 years of popular culture, Star Trek does what a franchise reboot rarely does. It reminds us why we loved these characters in the first place.

It's enough to move even a Star Wars fan to tears.

It's an exciting, stellar-yet-earthy blast that successfully blends the hip and the classic.

Star Trek goes back to the legend's roots with a boldness that brings a fatigued franchise back to life.

Abrams' redo isn't just a blast from the past. It's a blast.

The summer movie season has barely begun, but already one thing is certain: It will have at least one indisputably great movie.

You needn't know the secret handshakes or utter the Vulcan blessing "live long and prosper" to gain admission to, and enjoy, summer's first thrill ride.

I can name exactly three and a half things "Star Trek" gets wrong -- and I can name about a thousand that Abrams and his cast and crew get absolutely, pitch-perfect, elegantly right.

If you care about this universe (and I do, damn it), you won't sit passively through J.J. Abrams's restart Trek. You'll marvel at the smarts and wince at the senselessness. You'll nitpick it to death and thrill to it anyway.

Quinto is the one person here who may leave teen-aged viewers more perplexed than puffed up; he somehow rebukes the movie's whole obsession with backstory and immaturity by seeming riper and wiser than the charmless folly that is spun around him.

The Gene Roddenberry years, when stories might play with questions of science, ideals or philosophy, have been replaced by stories reduced to loud and colorful action.

The new Star Trek motion picture seeks to extend a lucrative brand with a young demographic. But it's a real movie -- breathlessly paced bordering on manic, but propulsively entertaining.

An enjoyably mindless thrill ride.

The happy result is action-friendly, nerd-friendly, and fundamentally optimistic.

This is really the story of how the Enterprise crew meets, hammers out its differences and becomes a team, and the telling is pure bliss.

A film that should appeal to longtime Trekkies, sci-fi neophytes and pretty much anybody who likes a good action flick.

A new creation, one that serves as a self-contained film and a launching pad for a continuation of the franchise, one that should live long and prosper.

Blasting onto the screen at warp speed and remaining there for two hours, the new and improved Star Trek will transport fans to sci-fi nirvana.

Smart, epic and eye-popping.