Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Pros: Fantastic effects, great musical score, familiar characters.
Cons: Overlong, drags at times.

I can still remember it like it was yesterday. Being a child of the seventies, I grew up on Star Trek Re-runs. I loved the show, and after all, who wouldn’t? The fearless Captain Kirk, the enigmatic Mr. Spock, the crotchety Dr. McCoy, the irrepressible ...

Pros: brings back the original cast, awesome special effects for the time
Cons: too many stories being told at the same time

I read many reviews that have panned Star Trek: The Motion Picture. I think it's unfair to the movie, especially if you realize the origin.

Gene Roddenberry had tried for years to resurrect his television series after it's...

Pros: Great Series, Interesting Story
Cons: The Enterprise , Kirk's too nice

There are two types of Star Trek fans. I belong to the first group, that really enjoys the show and movies created by Gene Rodenberry. We are the conventional group, that likes this type of science fiction, because it helps us escape the ...

Pros: Some DVD extras which are really extraneous to the schmooey content of the flick
Cons: Pacing, Acting, Costumes, Script, Direction, Effects...

You know how there are movies that you try desperately to love, because of some sort of connection you have with them? Maybe you loved the book it was based on, or it has your favorite actors, or you’re a longtime fan of the director. But the movie...

Pros: Good (if derivative) concept, original cast reunites, great score, good directing
Cons: pretentious at times, too effects-heavy, essentially 2 Original Series episodes married to big budget....

As a Star Trek fan and space-movie aficionado, I have always had mixed feelings toward 1979's Star Trek: The Motion Picture. I know I'm not the only Trekkie who feels...if not disenchantment, then ambivalence about this sometimes promising, sometimes ...

Pros: Star Trek was Back, Special Effects
Cons: Slow, predictable, poor plot

I've been a Star Trek fan from day 1 and I, like others was sad to see the original series go off the air. It was a fresh concept for TV and really a quality product. During the early 70's we heard rumors of another TV series or maybe a motion...

Pros: The simple birth of so much more Star Trek then ever thought of.
Cons: Very long intro, and some scenes drag on.

Star Trek--The Motion Picture
136 Minutes
Rated PG
1979
Paramount Home Video

Star Trek--The Motion Picture has a very slow intro but, that is about the only problem with this movie I have. Admiral/Captain Kirk...

Pros: the cast in their first big screen adaptation, good score, nice DVD extras
Cons: story drags, some cringe-worthy lines, costumes

Note: This review focuses on the 2002 DVD Director’s Edition for Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Otherwise, it would probably lose a star (at least) if not for the editing done to make this film watchable. Although it took Robert Wise 23 years to hire ...

Pros: beautiful to watch and listen too.
Cons: Poor plot, bad acting, no character building.

I never really was a huge fan of Star Trek: The Original Series; it had the same fell to it as many 60s and 70s sci-fi series (Battlestar Galactica (the original), Buck Rogers etc.). The larger than life heroes that strolled about in them, fighting ...

Pros: Special effects work; familiar cast; Robert Wise's direction
Cons: Very long, a point that has turned off many a viewer of this movie

Gene Roddenberry's "Star Trek" holds a unique place in TV history. In its original run from 1966 to ...

Pros: If you like Star Trek then this is for you
Cons: If you dont like star trek, you may not like this

My husband is the trekkie in the family - so much so that he gets a DVD every 2 weeks with a magazine. Through this we have all 10 films and a growing collection of episodes from The Next Generation. But before I digress so much that this review is rated ...

Pros: Well, at least it's back
Cons: No plot, no characterisation, overwhelmed by special effects.

Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForrest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koening, Nichelle Nicholls, George Takei, Majel Barrett Roddenberry, Stephen Collins, Persis Khambatta Directed by: Robert Wise What's it all about Alfie?: A big cloud ...

Pros: The Crew Is Back
Cons: The Special Effects Consume the Picture

Star Trek - The Motion Picture is a disgrace to Star Trek itself. The movie is a sequel to the television series of the 60s, and personally, if I had not wanted to see the characters of the movie so bad, I would have never seen it.

The...

Pros: Special effects, menacing villain, music, additional footage.
Cons: Too slow, some really disastarous dialogue, obvious padding.

When I was 16, I was a major Star Trek fan and I had seen every other Star Trek movie, and I owned every single Original cast movie on video. I had watched the first half of this film when I was a kid, and found it boring so I turned off halfway through....

Pros: Character Development, Moments of Acting, Good blend of new and old effects
Cons: Slow pace, Emphasis on the Wrong Aspects of the Story, Cluttered

In my ever-growing struggle with the unlisted at Epinions, I'll prologue my review by saying the version of "Star Trek The Motion Picture" I'm basing this review on is the new 136 minute, 2 DVD "Star Trek The Motion Picture The Director's Cut." On...