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Oui, ce film possède une bonne gamme de défauts. On y retrouve une histoire d’amour un peu inutile, des incohérences de scénario ou quelques éléments sont tirés par les cheveux et comme une volonté d’en faire un rien de trop. Mais en revanche, Abrams y met énormément du sien, beaucoup et de coeur et d’envie pour nous pondre un Star Trek remarquable. Premièrement, il revient aux origines des personnages et dépoussière un fameux coup la saga. Fini le côté kitsch et les vieux pyjamas, préparez-vous à en prendre plein la vue. Vaisseau modernisé, effets spéciaux dantesques, etc. Abrams est un sacré technicien à ce niveau. Quel plaisir aussi de retrouver l’ambiance de Star Trek, les personnages-clés, l’univers et des références à la série ou aux films. Quel plaisir de retrouver Leonard Nimoy dans son rôle de Spock (mais un vieux Spock bien sûr…). L’occasion de parler des acteurs, la plupart des jeunes premiers en ce qui concerne les personnages principaux. On aurait pu croire que ça fonctionnerait pas, mais le choix des acteurs a été judicieux. Celui qui joue Spock à la place de Nimoy est très ressemblant par exemple. Les personnages sont bien travaillés. Franchement, j’ai été très agréablement surpris et ai pris mon pied de bout en bout. Excellent blockbuster qui en met plein la vue, permettant aux non-initiés de s’attaquer à la saga, mais respectant également les fans absolus. Du très bon boulot.

star trek used to be like the twilight zone and have socialy relevant writing, now its been downgraded and dumbed down into micheal bayish crap made for reboot fanboys who’s idea of a great movie is transformers 2.Star trek the next generation tv show is the proper way to reboot star trek, not this film (while most of tng’s movies were terrible for trying to go the action route like this movie does and removing the tv shows music). Star trek used to be a series that gave people hope about the future and made you proud to be a human being. People in the show were people you looked up to and wanted to be like and admired in a non superficial
way, unlike the new reboot wich seems to be about bickering and kirk getting action.
Gone is the magic of star trek and we have star trek 2009, a made for 20 year old reboot fanboy film wich is about as revolutionary as transformers 1. star trek has been downgraded from humanitarian storytelling to action micheal bay noisemaker with no point other than to attract obnoxious dumb jock 20 year olds in a sad attempt to make it cool while ignoring its large fanbase. While better than some of the terrible side of classic star trek (st 5 and 6) and next generations stinker movies(everything but first contact), it still pales in comparison to either of those tv shows or better movies (star trek 1-4 and first contact being my pics). Star trek the next generation tv series is the right way to reboot a star trek franchise with the proper allegoric stories and embracing the spirit that made star trek different. Star trek wasnt an action series nor never intended to like people that want to ruin star trek, star trek was suppose to be about looking at the human condition and having hope for the future and using a scifi premise to talk about issues that were hard too and that would make people grow as a people.
May sound corny to some but yes, star trek used to actualy mean something and not just be another action scifi movie made for 20 year olds who have seen transformers 2 300 times and actualy believe thats a good movie. Much like the twilight zone anthology original series, star trek had a point and wasnt a noisy scifi movie but cleverly disguised allegoric stories hidden within a scifi premise.
Yes, I’m an old skool trekie (I personaly feel the best star trek was 2 and secondly 3 as it was a continuation of 2 and then first contact). My favorite episode is actualy the classic City on the edge of forever, an episode that defines and embraces the allegoric spirit of star trek.The next generation does rebooting right in the tv show (failing in the movies by also becoming action series and dropping music except for first contact wich is ok). what is so god awful in this movie is that j.j. abrams is a star wars fan and wrote star trek like a star wars movie and did so badly not understanding star trek and its allegoric style of writing. Worse yet he attracted scores of jock douchebags to the franchise as clamoring fans who think his outing is great and never have seen a star trek movie or tv show, this is the audience that is now star trek. Gone are the shows humor (other than a couple of scenes and largely pegg’s character) we have instead thin ageless preppy jock star trek characters in wich differences are no longer celebrated, monotony is as well as pointless bickering that was never the part of the original series. sure bones, kirk and spock bickered but they never fought to the piont of 2009 (except in amok time, spock was in heat and it wasnt out of character) and always had respect shown wich made it unique to watch instead of tiresome and annoying wich is star trek 2009. They argued like old couples argue, not like annoying children trying to drown down thier personal points.

The one thing that irks me as star trek is one of my favorite franchises along with star wars, is that star wars was action oriented, it was for jocks. Star wars made liking scifi non nerdy. Star trek was for us nerds and was about much about us as it was about people in the future or alien worlds. star trek had twilight zone style allegoric writing that made you think. It used to be for people with brains and not most of the fans of this are people who like action movies. this might have made a great movie if it were a scifi action movie, as a star trek film and reboot it just doesnt work for me. Mainly the character writing is terribly off, Kirk is acting like bones, spock is acting human getting angry and romanticaly involved what the hell. Its like J.J. never saw star trek in his life and just thought, you know I want to put my name to something big so I’ll make a star trek movie. Star trek used to be the only show martin luther king himself would let his family watch, i doubt he would even want to bother with this outing.

Also horrid is this films music, it makes me want to close my ears its so god awful. I just really wish they would learn that the reason the star trek franchise started failing with towards the end of Deep space nine is they removed the terrific allegoric style writing and went into action mode. Its the same dumbass thing they started to do towards the end of Enterprises run and that shows that people running star trek just need to be kicked in the but and reminded what star trek is.

I liked some of the cast but if you notice the ages are much different in the original series wich made them more interesting. I also didnt like zaldana as Uhurah compared to the original and Cho was a dud as Sulu (both lacking thier original’s terrific accents and style), as well as even laughably Pine as kirk. I thought Chris Helmsworth who plays kirks father in this would have made a far far better kirk as kirk wasnt someone angry. Shatner played him with humor and charm and thier was bickering in the original series,but lots of warmth and comradreship and humor between kirk, spock and bones. It felt like a family in space, like watching an old married couple bicker, something star trek 2009 completely fails at other than some moments with Pegg and a funny scene with Checkov and a retread of a story from st2. They had spock written like kirk, acting angry and getting in fights and having romances. It was the original casts extreeme differences that made them interesting something j.j. doesnt realize because its apparent he never watched star trek (and admited he was a star wars fan).

I also miss the straight lasers/phasers instead of the ball lasers wich made star trek stand out from other scifi movies/shows and basicaly i just please for the love of god, want the original damned star trek 2 music back in the show or even the classic shows terrific music wich is in 5 minutes of the end with the stupid opening in the wrong place (the final frontier voicework goes in a little after the beggining bone head j.j. lolol).
Much like the bond reboot wich i hated and the star wars prequels, i just wish sequel makers, movie remakes and tv to movies would stop dropping terrific music. A terrific sequel feels like an extra 2 hours of the original film, when you drop music it disconnects from this. Music is 89% of a movie and just as important as a character in it, its the glue that holds a film or tv series together. I can name sequel franchise after sequel franchise that drops this formula and thier franchises plod into the ground becoming pale immatations of thier former selves with thier studios scratching thier head, whats going on. A sequel, tv to movie, book to film, remake, reboot, comic book movie should all be no brainers gentlemen, your works already done for you why in gods name do you keep fing them up? why lol.?!?!?!?!?!

Star trek used to have a heart and it used to be about bringing out the best of people in the human condition and looking at it from a unique point of view. Star trek is not star wars and j.j. in making trek into preppy bickering dumb jocks turned it into something worse than star wars.
The main complaint i have is all the heartless movies with no point made for 13-28 year olds (pg-13 movies) as the original trek would have never succumbed to revenge like in this film as j.j. obviously has never seen a star trek episode in his life and when we did in the original series with star trek 3 and kirk killing the klingon only in self defense we had episode 5 to deal with his klingon predjuces. In my day the reason we had terrific movies is we had movies that were made for multigenerational, generations of people regardless of age used to like star trek, like raiders or close encounters and not loud, pretentious, scifi crap. Sad to see star trek has become another franchise for 20 year olds only much like bond, star wars,superman, batman and the terminator (now tron also) franchises with 20 year old reboot fanboys clammoring and clapping thier hands, more mediocre crap please.
Can someone please give me the franchises i loved in my youth back, please?!?!?

I personaly feel that studios need to stop improving star trek, stop changing star trek in an attempt to get ratings and viewers. star trek doesnt need to be changed or improved, it was already great with classic star trek with people that you looked up to and wanted to be like. Star trek is something that should have been left alone and grown and gotten terrific writers who understand star trek like harlen ellison gotten to write movies rather than dumbed down for the sake of improved ratings.

Nuff said, end of rant. enjoy that 20 year olds ruining my favorites. ;).

p.s. whats my definition of a fanboy? a fanboy is someone who likes a product produced either by a company or person so rabidly they like any product produced by that company or person without thinking properly.

Filez dans l’espace ! – 21/10/2009

Ce nouvel épisode de la saga Star Trek revisite l’univers de la série d’origine tout en le projetant dans l’action et la modernité, avec un scénario plein d’ingéniosité. On est peut-être très loin de l’univers de la série (qui s’était largement abîmé en cours d’années), mais ce Star Trek là est un très bon moment de divertissement… Pas de quoi en faire un fromage non plus…

BOLDLY GO… LOLOL
I at least get the appeal here, I guess. I enjoy Trek as much as the next nerd, but I’m not the biggest fan. Even taken on summer movie terms, though, I still found it boring. The production design was fantastic; all the sets, props, and costumes were a joy to look at; but I could never get over the annoying cinematography. So many cuts and close-ups! This is a very dynamic way of shooting films that is a popular trend right now, very Bourne kind of stuff, and I do not think it works for sci-fi. When there’s fantastic technological wonders zipping across the screen, explosions used like most people use punctuation, all the magic is lost. We should be able soak that stuff in, really appreciate the craft and thought gone into their design. Star Trek, to its great detriment, never lets up.

Cliche Summer Explosions top off a swarming stampede of action scenes that you pray will end.

After suffering through that, we hopefully get a scene right? But the terrible “reference nod” riddled dialogue ends abruptly thrusting you back into more boring action faster than light speed. The film plays up like being told an inside joke each time the school bully takes a breather from pummeling you.

I cannot fathom why this is showing up on so many Critics Top Ten Lists. Either the year is unusually terrible or people are unusually stupid. Nolan’s Batman this is not. This is typical summer popcorn trash. Don’t let confused critics fool you. Watch them try to keep a straight face while they defend this and bash transformers. There isn’t a difference to the true auteur.

This is probably now my favourite Star Trek film. Unlike the Star Wars prequels; this had good story, cast and dialogue that doesn’t make you cringe.

The cast of Star Trek looks great, but Chris Pine as Kirk and Karl Urban as McCoy surprised me as they performed really well. As much as I really like Simon Pegg as Scotty, his Scottish accent went on and off a few times. Zachary Quinto was really good as Spock, wouldn’t be surprised if he messed up a few times on trying to deliver his lines in a serious fashion. Eric Bana did a good job being evil Romulan, Nero and not being over-the-top.

The special visual effects in this film were fantastic and the action sequences were exciting and overall it was a lot of fun to watch. J.J. Abrams did a terrific job on keeping Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek but making his own slightly.

This would be a four star film, but viewing at the IMAX made the experience so much better and worth every penny.

BAM and the movie starts. A nonstop flight from beginning to end. I love how you don’t have to be a trekkie to be into the movie, but at the same time they hid various aspects of the film that only Trekkies would get. A good example would be the fact that, like the television series, no one in the movie says, “Beam me up, Scotty” even when he is at the transporter.

I was most impressed with Karl Urban’s depiction of “Bones” McCoy. While often written off, one must realize he is arguably one of the hardest characters to pull off because of DeForrest Kelly’s unique voice and mannerisms. Bravo, Karl.

Pure entertainment at it’s finest. While being a popcorn movie, it also gives the franchise a new direction and a satisfying new cast of old characters. I’ve seen most of what’s out there for Star Trek, and I’ve gotta say that the film never diverted from the rich lore that the previous show and film series have set up. I really feel that if they do it right, the next Star Trek films could do a lot to examine these characters in ways we haven’t seen before, which is very promising to a fan like me. All in all, a great ride, and one that I’m looking forward to go on again.

If the classic science fiction films of the 1950’s largely mirrored the paranoia and fear of an America in the grips of a cold war, Star Trek’s debut in 1966 signaled a new era of hope for the future, a vision of racial equality and multiculturalism that avoided the cultural relativism that so often goes hand in hand. Gene Roddenberry, the shows original creator, saw a future in which Americans, Russians, Asians, blacks, and whites work together without prejudice, a future in which humankind has conquered the scourges of hunger, poverty, war, and religion. His utopia unleashed humanity’s collective curiosity on the universe, creating an endless chain of adventures that we enjoy as much for their thoughtful dilemmas as for their suspenseful action. Star Trek embodied progressive notions of justice, civility, and liberty, while embracing the best of its sci-fi predecessors: the contrast between man’s limitless potential and his utter insignificance.

Director J.J. Abrams’ second feature film, Star Trek, almost universally hailed as the “Star Trek reboot”, is better thought of as Star Trek’s assimilation. It’s not the end of a franchise, and it’s certainly not the end of Star-Trek-as-commercial-endeavor. It’s the end of Roddenberry’s narrative ideal, an attempt to challenge our accepted mores as much as to satisfy our entertainment needs. Star Trek had reached a dead end; it was an anachronism in an entertainment world ruled by form, not content. It’s no secret that Hollywood’s ability to create intellectually stimulating entertainment has fallen in inverse proportion to it’s ability to create stunningly realized worlds with CGI.

You’d be wrong to assume in reading all of this that I’m a die-hard “trekkie,” or that I’m a cinematic snob, or even that I didn’t enjoy Abrams’ Star Trek. I did enjoy it. After twenty or thirty minutes of dangerously clumsy exposition (including a car chase scene whose only apparent purpose was to find a way to plug “Nokia” phones in a story set 380 years from the present), we’re treated to one of Hollywood’s better action blockbusters. Writers (and admitted “trekkies”) Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman have developed an alternate Star Trek universe. A black-hole enables a 130 year old Spock and some very angry Romulans to travel back in time to a point in space conveniently inhabited by James T. Kirk’s father and mother (the latter of which is in the process of giving birth to James). The Romulans lay waste to the relatively tiny and ill equipped star ship, killing James’ father and narrowly missing his mother.

The black-hole is essentially Hollywood’s deus ex machina, freeing Abrams from the philosophical baggage that simultaneously bolstered Star Trek’s narrative strength and sealed its commercial weakness. On top of this new canvas they’ve grafted a number of perfectly respectable formulas, including:

1. Rebel without a cause (James T. Kirk, played by newest celebrity heartthrob Chris Pine) 2. Freudian mother surrogate (Uhura, played by Guess Who co-star Zoe Saldana, who throws some surprising pity-sex at the young Spock) 3. Man of two three worlds (Spock, played by Heroes star Zachary Quinto) 4. Unrecognized genius (Montgomery “Scotty” Scott, hilariously played by British actor/comedian Simon Pegg)

If Abrams’ Star Trek is anything, it’s the deft combination of several tried and true narrative arcs. And if Star Trek is the death of Star Trek, it’s also the birth of Hollywood’s newest cash cow. $75 million dollars in the opening weekend… Roddenberry who?

Final Thought: Resistance is futile. Just enjoy the damn thing.