STAR TREK
HEADLINE: ** Beginning Again **
Title: STAR TREK
Quality: * * * * Acceptability: -1
SUBTITLES: None
WARNING CODES:
Language: LL
Violence: VV
Sex: S
Nudity: N
RATING: PG-13
RELEASE: May 8, 2009
TIME: 126 minutes
STARRING: Chrs Pine, Zachary Quinto, Karl Urban, Bruce Greenwood, Eric Bana, Zoë Saldana, Winona Ryder, Simon Pegg, Anton Yelchin, and Leonard Nimoy
DIRECTOR: J.J. Abrams
PRODUCERS: J. J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Bryan Burk, Jeffrey Chernov, Roberto Orci, and Alex Kurtzman
WRITER: Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman
BASED ON THE TV SERIES CREATED BY: Gene Roddenberry
DISTRIBUTOR: Paramount Pictures/Viacom
CONTENT: (B, C, Pa, FR, LL, VV, S, N, A, MM) Very light moral worldview with loyalty and self-sacrifice to save others and one positive reference to faith as well as the Vulcans worship a goddess; 10 obscenities and four profanities; strong intense action violence includes serious fight scenes, including holding somebody down and beating them several times, fighting with swords and guns, sword stabbed through the chest, stepping on people's hands while they hang on the abyss, mechanical violence, and a bug that eats into the brain dropped into a man's mouth; one interspecies sex scene with the parties partially clothed and kissing, plus several sexual innuendoes; brief upper male nudity, women in skimpy underwear; serious alcohol use; no smoking or illegal drug use; and, character is drugged to smuggle him aboard a spaceship, cheating extolled, information withheld, and lying occurs.
GENRE: Science Fiction
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Teenagers and adults
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SUMMARY: STAR TREK re-imagines the world of the original series by changing its timeline to enter an alternate space-time universe, in an original story where a vengeful Romulan captain changes the destiny of the starship Enterprise and its intrepid crew led by Captain James T. Kirk. STAR TREK is an exciting, entertaining, popcorn movie with a light moral worldview, but it takes place in a darker, amoral universe.
IN BRIEF:
STAR TREK re-imagines the world of the original series by changing to an alternate space-time universe. Captain Kirk's father dies at the hands of a vengeful Romulan captain named Nero, so Kirk grows up in Iowa as slightly rebellious. In fact, he steals the family's antique corvette and drives it off a cliff. Then, he runs into conflicts with Mr. Spock at Star Fleet Academy. As a result, they suspend him for cheating, but his best friend, Dr. McCoy, sneaks him upon the new starship, the Enterprise, for its maiden voyage. They learn that Captain Nero is attacking Spock's homeworld of Vulcan. One crisis leads to another. And, Kirk must eventually lead the crew against the seemingly invincible Nero.
STAR TREK is an exciting, entertaining, popcorn movie. The intensity never lets up, and the special effects are first-rate, but this is not the STAR TREK older generations remember. This new STAR TREK takes place in a much more messy, amoral universe that honors cheating, rebellion and some immorality. That said, the movie does capture the essence of STAR TREK, with some positive moral qualities and heroes who sacrifice themselves to save others.
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