Star Trek? Campiness (Shatner! Montalban!) aside, I was always more of a Star Wars person. That said, I’ve pretty much hated the last four Star Wars movies (yep, Skyguy, that’s me admitting I saw 2008’s pitiful cartoon Star Wars: The Clone Wars, on the big screen no less) — but I thoroughly enjoyed JJ Abrams’ Star Trek (out now). Over at io9, my former Guardian colleage Annalee Newitz’s review is entitled “The Sexualization of Spock” — so that alone should tell you that Trekkie purists might have Bones to pick (har) with Abrams’ youth-gone-wild study of the USS Enterprise. But from a summer-movie standpoint, this flick has it all: explosions, witty one-liners, a fast-paced plot, entire planets in danger, rakish heroes and charismatic villains (including Eric Bana as a sarcastic Romulan), a Beastie Boys-injected car chase, and Simon Pegg. Zoe Saldana’s Uhuru — all false eyelashes and miniskirt — is underwritten to a laughable extent. But that’s pretty much my only complaint, other than I didn’t get to see the movie in IMAX. Yet.
Um, and just for fun: