[Movie] Star Trek (2009)

Frankly, the bigger the budget is on a film, the more it's going to conform to hollywood standards because the more the producers get to wipe their noses on it. If they're going to spend millions on the film they want millions back and that means marketing it to more people than the greasy, socially awkward Trekkies of the world. The writers will throw in references for fans to be smug about because they know what they are, but it's all cut from the same cookie cutter at the end of the day.

So that said, when I see a film like this with a huge special effects budget I expect big spectacles, things blowing up with remarkably crisp explosion sounds and girls in short skirts. And I got all of that.

It's a summer popcorn movie, just because it has Star Trek attached as a name doesn't change that it's going to follow all of the conventions. If you just sit back and tune your brain off it can be fun in its own gaping plot holes, comic relief and yes, 14 year old wish fullfillment way.

Jam it back in, in the dark.