“In that case, I might just break my own ban against going to movie theaters.”
It’s worth every penny. This movie is something else. I’m a fan of the first 6 Star Trek movies, the old series, one of about 14 or 15 people that loved Enterprise, and a few seasons of TNG.
From start to finish I was blown away. Some people are getting torqued that it messes with Trek canon, but I can care less about those things...for the most part anyway. The cast is excellent, the plot/story is fantastic, and the special effects only make the movie even better :-)!
Don’t worry about Capt. Kirk ... the character appears to be in good hands now :-)! McCoy is downright perfect and I think Zachary Quinto (Spock) is actually a cloned Leonard Nimoy :-).
IMHO the Star Trek canon needed to be seriously messed with. The ST universe had gotten so convoluted and compromised that it really needed a complete "re-boot." This movie does that, and I'm really looking forward to both seeing this movie again, and seeing sequels in the new Trek universe.
New Trek is better than Old Trek. Actually, what I'd really like to see is a TV series in the New Trek universe. I love TV space opera and the pickings are slim nowadays.
Slight spoiler alert . . .
color me delighted that the TNG/movie musical score did not get used at all in the new movie, as far as I noticed. It was old school, TOS theme music playing over the end credits (although I admit I didn't stay for all of the credits, so they may have tacked on the TNG theme at the end.)