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Summary: Best for Non-Trekkies
Review: This movie is one of the best of the Trek Films and defineately the best for Non-Trekkies. Lot's of fun! You'll have a whale of a time watching it!
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Summary: STAR TREK IV GREAT BUT NOT THE BEST OF THE FLICKS
Review: I found STAR TREK IV THE VOYAGE HOME to be a great film but not the best of them all and here's why. I mean WILLIAM SHATNER, LEONARD NIMOY, DEFOREST KELLY and the rest of the cast do a great job acting out the story but at times I felt the film went off focus on saving whales than earth. Which was the reason KIRK and company were there anyway. Maybe there should've been more focus on that point. Althougth this movie has a lot of humerous moments that are just hysterical wait till you see MCCOY in a 20th century operating room. And KIRK AND SPOCK on a bus LEONARD NIMOY does just a wonderful job directing as he did with STAR TREK III but I felt that this movie could've left out that whale expert she at times was too overbearing and the diaolouge between her and KIRK was a llitle too soap-operay for my taste. But all in all if you love STAR TREK see STAR TREK IV THE VOYAGE HOME and have mostly a great time watching like I did.
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Summary: The best Star Trek movie ever!!!
Review: I loved this movie! It has all your unforgettable TOS characters and even new ones. Kirk commanding a ship other than the Enterprise?? Yes, and if you like to laugh, I suggest that you buy this video. Nimoy does a great job of directing,and a great job of acting!If you are a Star Trek Fan..you will LOVE this movie..buy it today! You won't regret it!
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Summary: FANTASTIC IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE.
Review: This is not only a great STAR TREK movie, but also a great "message movie".All of the great STAR TREK cast help in making this a film to remember, even to bring back the time travel idea from the TV series was wonderful.There were no mistakes that really made any problem for people except the fact that the U.S.S.Ranger was the carrier on screen since the U.S.S.Enterprise was at sea during the time of fiming.This aside,everyone who looked to getting a good movie got a fantastic one.The cast members get to have more "cute" scenes and give humor to the film.The idea of saving the whales to prevent a disaster in the future was FANTASTIC,Leonard Nimoy pulled off another great movie with his directing.This was the film that helped to give a message to the people about the MASSIVE whale problem,AND IT DID WORK.Worth eve! ! ry minute. END
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Summary: classic star trek, with a twist
Review: Another classic trek movie, this one from 1986, is awesome, and the most shocking thing about it is that it doesn't even take place in space, save for about 15 minutes! Instead it takes place in 1986, where the crew members go back in time to capture two whales to stop the destructive calls of an intergalactic whale species trying to contact the long-extinct whales. The whole plot sounds like it would suck beyond belief, but it comes close to being the best trek movie, and is one of my faves ever. The awesomeness of the movie, unlike the rest of the series, comes not from suspense and action scenes, but the hilarious and often touching culture shock the crew faces in mid-80's San Fransisco. There is so much to laugh at: the crew earnestly walking along the SanFran streets, Sulu in his cape, Kirk in his red StarFleet uniform, and unforgettably, Spock in his monk robe with the belt tied around the tops of his pointy ears, making him look like an angry ninja master with a botched Botox job. Also hilarious is McCoy's disgust at how rudimentary 20th Century medical practices are/were. In a scene inside a hospital, he asks a woman what ails her, she responds she has kidney dialysis, and he's like, "What is this, the dark ages?! Swallow this, and call me if you have any problems." Several scenes later she is wheeled out claiming a miracle. There is much more in the movie I won't spoil for you (or more like I'm too f*#&ing lazy to write any more), so turn the PC off and rent this great flick, also it's been on AMC recently, so try that too.
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Summary: It's surprising how well this movie works
Review: The premise of "Star Trek: The Voyage Home" probably doesn't sound promising to those who haven't seen it- the Enterprise and the crew travel back to the present day to retrieve a pair of humpback whales. It's a welcome surprise then that "The Voyage Home" proves to be one of the most entertaining Star Trek entries; it's both interesting and funny, if a little low on tension. Director Leonard Nimoy handles this situation perfectly. The "fish-out-of-water" story had grown old even when this movie was released in 1986, but it's still a riot to watch the Enterprise crew try to adapt to late 20th century San Francisco. There's also a good ecological message from "The Voyage Home"- if man continues to be short-sighted in his dealings with the environment, he may inadvertently destroy himself. There's not many major characters in the film outside of the Enterprise crew, but Catherine Hicks shows flair as a marine biologist that's trying to help out Kirk and Co. The only thing that's missing from "The Voyage Home" is tension. There's no real villain and never really a sense that things won't turn out all right in the end. One could argue that the series needed to lighten up a bit after the dark and violent second and third entries, but it still sometimes feel that something's missing from "The Voyage Home". Overall, this is a very entertaining movie, and one of the few "Star Trek" films that can appeal to a wide audience outside of its target one. Considering the quality of some of the "Star Trek" films that followed it ("The Final Frontier", "Generations"), "The Voyage Home" is definetely a quality Trek outing. If you don't own it yet, what are you waiting for?
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Summary: Having a Whale of a Time
Review: "The Voyage Home" was the fourth of the Star Trek films and hit the movie screens in 1986. It focuses on the crew of the original series, commanded by James Kirk, and ties up a few loose ends from the previous two films.
The film opens in 2286, three months having passed since the end of "The Search of Spock", with the approach of a strange probe - apparently on a course to Earth. The first Starfleet vessel to encounter it is the USS Saratoga - unfortunately, the energy signal being transmitted by the probe leaves the Saratoga powerless and drifting in space. Affecting every starship and starbase it meets in the same way, it finally reaches Earth. Settling into orbit, it directs its signals towards the planet's oceans - which are promptly ionised, leading to raging storms around the planet.
Having stolen - and subsequently destroyed - the Enterprise, visited an off-limits planet and commandeered a Klingon Bird of Prey, Kirk and his crew are on Vulcan preparing to return to Earth. In preparation for the trip, they have carried out a few minor alterations to their captured ship. Fully expecting to be court-martialed when they arrive at Earth, McCoy has also renamed it the HMS Bounty. They only hear about the probe's approach and its effects en-route, however. Spock - whose rehabilitation is not yet complete - analyses the probe's signals and believes the language to be that of humpback whales. Unfortunately, given that the species is extinct in the 23rd Century, there can be no response. This leaves the crew with only one option : they must travel back in time to a period to when humpback whales weren't extinct, capture at least one of them and return with it (or then) to the 23rd Century. Using the 'slingshot' method they discovered during their famous 5-year mission, Kirk and his crew travel to the late 20th century. There, they decide to target two whales living in captivity in San Francisco. Naturally, there are complications...
Directed by Leonard Nimoy, "The Voyage Home" also saw Nicholas Meyer (director of "The Wrath of Khan" and "The Undiscovered Country") contribute to the screenplay. Meyer - whose involvement in a Star Trek movie is practically a guarantee - initially wanted the bulk of the action to take place in Paris, rather then San Francisco. Nevertheless, despite the odd 'serious' point - most obviously, the damage caused by humans hunting the humpback to extinction - this is still a very funny movie. The comments on, and the attempts to use, the period's vernacular are sure to raise a smile, while the interplay between Kirk, Spock and McCoy has rarely been bettered.
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Summary: The Crappiest Star Trek Movie Ever!
Review: If it were possible I would give this film a negative 3 in review as for it is truly a bastardization of everything that makes Trek. The story/screenplay seems like it was written by tree-hugging hippies or enviromentalist extremists with a touch of utterly absurd and boring comedy. Let's put Shatner and the crew travelling back to the 20th century 80's decate and have them save humpback whales so a probe from an unknown place doesn't destroy our planet. Gee, I wonder how much weed these guys smoke before writing this [sarcasm] appealing [/sarcasm] story. If the entire screenplay were written on toilet paper I wouldn't consider cleaning myself with it because it would probably infest me. The touch of comedy only makes this an extremely pathetic film and one that should have never existed. I hate this film so much that I have all other 9 Trek films (up to Nemesis) and I never intent on buying this movie even if it came on a "Widescreen Director's Cut DVD Unlimited Edition for $2.99".
Final Note: Apparently this film is very popular among non-trekkies and people who don't appreciate true science fiction so if you are one of them you might mildly enjoy this film, however this is NOT Trek, it should HAD NEVER BEEN, and let's all try to live thinking in our minds that this crap never existed.
Remember now: there are 9 Star Trek films NOT 10 :).
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Summary: Lot's of Laughs!
Review: This is probably by far the funniest of the Star Trek motion pictures. The crew of the Enterprise has found Spock and are trying to get home when they receive a signal from earth telling them to stay away because of the impending doom of the planet. Of course this is how Kirk gets out of the dog house (in the previous film he disobeyed Star Fleet orders and stole a starship to look for Spock) because as we all know, he's the only one that can save the earth. An alien probe has returned to earth to communicate with hump backed whales. The problem is that they are extinct on the earth of the future. Unbeknownst to the probe, its communications begin to destroy earth's atmosphere and the weather goes nuts and 100% cloud cover prevents the sun's rays from reaching the earth.
So where do you get these whales for the probe to communicate with? From earth of the past of course. So sets the premise for the film. The laughs are mostly due to Mr. Spock not being quite himself and also from the fact that the crew has had to return to earth of the past in a Klingon Bird of Prey (with the cloaking device).
Yes there is a message here. Take care of the earth or it won't be able to take care of you!
Some would say the story is far fetched but it's science fiction. It's supposed to be far fetched. The kids will love it even if they don't know Star Trek. There's no nudity and no real foul language. Also you won't find much violence either. This film is kid friendly.
Go ahead and purchase with confidence. May the force be with you! (oops, wrong scifi series!!) Live long and prosper. Enjoy.
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Summary: going home - twice
Review: This film, for the sake of tidiness, may be regarded as the second installment of Spock's cinematic resurrection after his noble end in "The Wrath of Khan" (of course, had that film tanked at the box office Spock would likely have stayed dead, just like Tasha Yar and Jadzia Dax in TNG and DSN, instead of coming back to life). Rather than turning into space fugitives, Kirk, Scott, Sulu, Uhura, Chekov, and McCoy unanimously decide to return and face judgment for their not-by-the-book set of actions, like the sabotage of U.S.S. Enterprise.
Being something of a contrarian, this reviewer does not consider the film to be some sort of cinematic comedy, as has been said by some/many. True, it is arguably lighter in overall tone when compared to its immediate predecessor. Still,it in fact illustrates the destructive and even evil aspect of humanity, albeit in a mildly humorous circumstance and context.
To a degree, this "Voyage" is an homage to the first season episode "Tomorrow is Yesterday", with the same trek to Earth's past via the sling-shot route. Of course, in the episode the crew makes the trip accidentally and in the original starship whereas in the film the crew does it intentionally and in "a Klingon fleatrap". Another point of contrast is that while the crew's task in the episode is to not bring a 20th-century lifeform (Captain Christopher) back to the present (23rd century) in order to preserve that era from obliteration, the crew's task in the film is to bring back a lifeform (two humpback whales, in fact) back to the present in order achieve same. And, yes, the advance in cinematic technology made it feasible for the filmakers to present the sling-shot time travel to and from the "latter half of the 20th century" in style, something that was not done in the episode.
On balance, this reviewer regards the film as one of cinematic Star Trek's better endeavours, although, as an acknowledged contrarian, ranking it not quite as high as "The Undiscovered Country"(#6;1991) or "First Contact"(#8;1996).
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