Star Trek IV - The Voyage Home (Special Edition)

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Summary: A Second Glance
Review: For all the fanfare that usually surrounds all things 'Trek', this installment in the movie series still seems very odd. It isn't a bad film, for sure, but its overall tone seems muddled. I can imagine how difficult it would be to shift an established franchise's mood. Director Leonard Nimoy is serviceable as actor and director, but the uncomfortable transition to comedy within a darkly realized plot is unsettling. Kudos to co-writer Nicholas Meyer for his god-is-in-the-details script moments (i.e. the insensitive elevator interns). Overall a miracle in execution, if a bit weird.

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Summary: My Favourite of the Trek Movies
Review: We watched this the other night and were very impressed with the quality of the sound and the transfer - not to mention the humour. I'd be interested to know if anybody else hears "interesting" sub-woofer noises during the probe sequences. It sounds like a tuba-player sped up 100 times mixed with fingernails scratching a blackboard (very scary & hard to describe). It made me check my sub (a high-end B&W ASW-2000)- which is fine. Otherwise a great movie that even the kids can enjoy. I never realized how much better the scene (where she picks up Kirk & Spock in her truck) is when you can actually see all 3 characters at the same time in widescreen. Kirk says "You're not exactly catching us at our best" & Spocks retorts "That much is certain!". It still cracks me up. A DVD worth getting.

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Summary: fun-filled family adventure; absolutely one for the Trek fan
Review: The movie was great. It had all the elements of a great movie, humor, action, and a great plot line. I have been a fan of Star Trek all my life, this one ranks as one of the best. Why is paramount so reluctant to put extras on the DVD. Looking forward to the next Trek movie on DVD.

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Summary: The best of the movies!
Review: I really liked this movie. It has a good plotline, and manages to be hilariously funny while still very, very Star Trekish. I absolutely loved it, and I want to see it over and over again!

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Summary: Best star trek movie
Review: In my opinion, this is by far the best of the star trek movies. 2,4, and 6 are all good, while 1,3, and 5 make me sick.

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Summary: possibly the best of the series
Review: this film will appeal as much to comedy fans as it will to sci-fi and trek fans.

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Summary: GOOD BUT NOT THE BEST!!!!!
Review: This film is pretty solid. The beginning and end are pointless but the scenes on the streets of San Franscisco in 1986 are good fun.

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Summary: Funniest of the Trek films
Review: "The Voyage Home" was no doubt the funniest of the Trek films but not the best. It has little violence or special effects in it but it provides decent humor. Which was nice for a change. It was Leonard Nimoy's second and last time directing a Star Trek film. It did an excellent job directing the action-packed, special effects oriented "The Search for Spock" and suprisingly did just as good of a job directing this hilarious picture. The action may be gone but not all of the special effects are. Since the Enterprise was destroyed in "The Search for Spock" the renegade now flies their stolen Klingon Bird of Prey, the Bounty. And there are several appealing visuals of it decloaking. In this picture an unknown alien probe is on its way to Earth and has destroyed everything in its path (notice any similarities to V'ger here). however at least thi sprobe is sending out a single. Unfortunatley no one has been able to respond. Because it is directed toward Earth and many other reasons Kirk (William Shatner), Spock (Nimoy) and the renegade crew of the Enterprise believe the probe is trying to contact the long since extinct race of humpback whales. So they take the Bounty back in time to 1986 in order to bring the whales back to teh future where they can contact the probe and save Earth. Twentieth century punk rockers, pizza, and exact bus change provide the humor. "The Voyage Home" is a great film that everyone will enjoy even if they're not a Trek fan.

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Summary: Extremely good
Review: You haven't lived until you've seen this movie. You *definitely* cannot call yourself a Trekkie (or Trekker) until you've seen it. And you will have no idea what everyone means by "colorful metaphor." :)

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Summary: Entertaining but vastly overrated
Review: The best of the Trek films? Give me a break. A cosmic ashcan towing a soccer ball wants to sing to the whales and vaporizes our oceans because none sing back...and we NEVER find out what it wanted or heard from George and Gracie. The film is littered with other sophomorically written inanities (like the President of the Federation officiating at Kirk's trial...makes about as much sense as Reagan running Ollie North's trial would.) Shatner has given up even trying to pretend that Kirk is any less arrogant and self-obsessed than he is, and as a result, the Admiral this time out is thoroughly unlikeable. The matte paintings are obvious and the alien makeups (for the audience in Kirk's "trial") are embarrassingly bad. Leonard Rosenman's score is utterly forgettable. But none of this mattered to audiences who couldn't get enough of "Back to the Future"-style silliness from the year before. Apparently all they needed were lots of yuks like Scotty talking into a Mac-mouse or Sulu startling himself with a windshield wiper. Oh, well...it was worth it for seeing Spock neck-pinch the punk, and for Scotty's wonder-filled "There be whales here!!" And mediocre as this was, it was still head and shoulders above what followed. I still think ST-TMP and ST III were the best of the bunch.