Star Trek review II

To start off, I'd just like to get something out of the way: Spock is awesome. I'm sure everyone already knows that, but it's important to reiterate often.

In the film, Kirk amusingly spends about a third of his time chasing after women, which fits with his character in TOS. Even when he's about to pass out he takes the time to say "hii, how are ya?" to a passing nurse. He was pretty funny in general, actually. And I've got two words for you: Kobayashi Maru. Spock and Kirk's interactions are, as always, sweet and adorable (even when they don't yet realize that they're meant for each other).
Karl Urban's impression of McCoy is eerie at times, and Simon Pegg as Scotty is spot-on, particularly when he says, unironically, "I'm givin it all I've got, Captain!" Anton Yelchin is adorable: at one point he is asked how old he is, and he brightly replies, "17, sir!" Zoe Saldana as Uhura was... different from her original character. But it worked... I think. I haven't decided yet. John Cho as Sulu was fairly undeveloped, although he did have a couple funny bits. It's not like he had a whole lot to work with. Eric Bana as the badguy, Nero, is completely insane, and not in a fun Master way. Well, kinda like that. But... Nero does some pretty unforgivable things.

The film was awesome enough that after it was over, Alec said "I still think Picard is better." Note that he said that he still thinks Picard is better (btw, I agree, although in a tossup between Picard and Spock I think I have to rule in favor of Spock in terms of sheer awesomeness). Alec didn't even have a complaint about the time travel (which he usually does), although he did take issue with the means of traveling thorough time. It was that awesome.

This time, of course, I was mostly paying attention to the plot. Next time I see it I'm going to watch the details. I did catch a few of them, of course--or Alec did. For instance, there's a scene in which a gung-ho guy is wearing a red shirt--you can guess how well that goes. But apparently there's a tribble on Scotty's desk when we first see him, and I forgot to check for it. Silly me. I say "next time" because it is of course a foregone conclusion. If it were just Alec and me, and if he did not have homework, I might have insisted that we stay for the 9:00 showing. Maybe I'll be able to convince him to go with me tomorrow after he gets out of school. Oh whoops. I have to write my essays then. Rats. Stupid professors who give me extensions.

That last picture didn't have Spock in it (although in the shot they are looking at him), so here's one of little Spock:
Awww... he's so widdle!