Costumes are lackluster. dull and duller. They look like walmart wear. Spock Prime is the only character with interesting futuristic clothing.

The Makeup is horrible or these actors are butt ugly. The make-up shows discolored skin, blotches and blemishes and the standard bruise over the right eyebrow of lead character James Kirk. Audiences watch film to see beautiful faces. Vllian Eric Bana as Nero looked better than the Trek crew in close-up. The Punk heavy metal makeup for the futuristic villian Romulons was unimaginative.We have seen it before. Their costumes were boring hackneyed cliches also.
One bright spot visually was Rachel Nivchols as Gaila in green body paint. She was interesting and gorgeous.

Casting is seriously flawed also.
Zachary Quinto as Spock is unappealing uninteresting, unlikeable. and basically unspock like. His Young Spock is a boring petulant little man. Zoe Zaldana as Uraha sulks her way through the role. Their romance is as palpable as a limp noodle. Chris Pine as Kirk would be tolerable if we did not have to see the pores and flaws in his skin. His acting is infantile and brought nothing new to the screen, or the role. He has the look and style of a dumb football player.
Some casting choices were successful
Simon Pegg as engineer Scott , Karl Urban as Bones, Bruce Greenwood as Cpt Pike and Winona Ryder as Spock’s mother each brought personality and life to their characters.
JJ Abrams used CGI effectively but missed the boat on character presentation. His lack of trekkie love shows.

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That this review was so long and detailed (in the sexuality department/ presentation thereof mostly) makes me wonder if you like the movie more then you care to say.

My feelings were mixed after watching this movie. The cast looked like they belonged on a MTV show. The special effects and sets looked like they were mashed together from several genre films spanning several decades. Some of the plot devices (holes rather) were used in a questionable manner. In the end i found those things minor to how much i enjoyed the film. The movie isnt meant to stay hardcore to the o.g. Star Trek. Its a rebirth made in a way that the modern audience. Most of the former Star Trek movies kept the plots simple, leaving the deeper stories for television. JJ Abrams did an alright job (great compared to his other shiet). I do agree that some of the angles used for bridge scenes were “frustrating” and i would have liked some wider angle shots and more of the interior.

all in all….i enjoyed the movie. it wasnt the greatest tasting pie i ever ate, but i liked how it went down the gillet. it was nice to see familiar characters, that nostalgic thang. I also liked that they created a way to reharsh the o.g. Star Trek but allow the o.g. canon to stay true. Star Trek 2.0, the alternate reality…..and practice commonly used in japanese manga and anime.

it’s also pretty hypocritical to insinuate karina’s writing is condescending given your tone and name calling.

i won’t speak on behalf “all worthy writers” such as you, but on behalf of the some of the readers…we’re here on spout for the content and not the spelling.

Who in hell taught Karina Longworth to write? Are you serious in presenting this half-wit as your representative? This is the first time I have been to your site, and you can guarantee that I will not return. In fact, don’t even reply to this email. Instead, simply burn little miss Longworth upon the stakes of spelling errors, grammatical insults and Emo-driven innocuous revilements. What’s more, her writing is condescending toward anyone that happens to know anything about the written word. It’s disgusting. Should I blame her inept editorial staff, perhaps?

Of course, this has absolutely nothing to do with her content. In fact, I would agree with her half-thought drivel, given that she could possibly form two sentences within the same paragraph without the use of “LOL”. But, her writing is nothing short of insulting to the reader. It thoroughly disgusts me that this wench of the written word is allowed to continue her tirade against the English language, while other MORE QUALIFIED WRITERS are waiting patiently in the wings with absolutely NO recognition. Speaking for every worthy writer out there, Karina Longworth and this entire established online magazine disgusts me.

Message to Karina : What on earth were you expecting? The film pretty much ticked every box you could have expected short of inventing time travel and getting the original cast sucked forward from the year 1965. I enjoyed it anyway.

As for the actors, I think they all did a great job. I’m impressed with Simon Peg and Karl Urban. Both nailed there roles with precision. Chris PIne however may not have been the best fit for Kirk, but in the end seemed to redeem him self with some classic Kirk-ish actions.

Too much glaring lighting effects and way to much moving camera.

Over all not a horrible film, but lacks in what it should have been heavy in, Trek accuracy. The ship looked like someone didn’t even look at the Volumes of technical journals and countless hours of movies and TV footage. I was hoping for CG like the remastered Original Series has.

Thanks for destroying my sense of sexual security and giving me a future of awkward conversations with the parents, J.J.

Outside the main characters the smaller one get their time to shine. I can see how you could compare that aspect to a Michael Bay assemble event film, but this characters are earnest with a sense of humor that comes out not as slap stick but as something that fleshes out their different aspects making them more than one dimensional Michael Bay puppets.

As far as the characters being exaggerated is a confident african-american woman who shows she has the intelligence to work amongst some of the more intelligent and well trained men in a galaxy who also happens to show emotional honesty in falling for an intelligent member of another race (er..species) instead of going for the caucasian cocky guy exaggerated? Or a character of another mixed race (er..species) being offended and defying those who would congratulate him for overcoming one side of his race because they find it inferior exaggerated?

Does the film have it’s flaws sure. But the film doesn’t depend on it’s effects to make the story. It’s not the best story ever written. It’s not the most inventive. But it is (if you let yourself escape) a future earth where people are finally learning to be at peace with themselves but are just starting to learn to be at peace with the galaxy and maybe the future galaxy a good story.

Wow. So this is where Tweets about how much you enjoyed Chris Pine’s ass will get us.

Well put, Ms. Longworth. Very well put.

I’m hoping that the the woman who Kirk and Spock are fighting over is Uhura.

This reminds me somewhat of “Cloverfield” actually (another JJ Abrams affiliation) - not necessarily in terms of story. A group of “20-something and absurdly attractive” types, working together to get through some challenge. Except, the monster movie’s characters weren’t as diverse.