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'Star Trek II:The Wrath of Khan' (82) ***1/2
Writers: Jack B. Sowards and Nicholas Meyer
Director: Nicholas Meyer
Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Ricardo Montalban, Deforest Kelley, James Doohan,
Playing in Chicago this weekend at a 'Star Trek' expo 'Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan' is the best of the 'Star Trek' movies. I also wanted to revisit it because I found the new reboot of 'Star Trek' a lot of fun and it reminded me of Wrath of Khan. After a dull and uncharacteristically flat first movie the Wrath of Khan revisited the spirit of the original television series. What a self indulgent snooze fest the first movie was as were the insufferable New Generation films with Patrick Stewart. This had one of the best villains ever in Montalban's Khan. It had great drama and suspense and great action scenes. There was that special humor of the show and a great love story of sorts between Kirk and Spock. It came out in the great movie year of 1982 and it was one of that summer's best movies. It had pretty much the same affect that 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' had the year before, a great popcorn movie. It also had a very surprisingly powerful finish. 'Star Trek III;The Search for Spock' is playing at this expo also. It is a pretty good movie but a little let down from the second. The other best are IV and VI, the worst is V and the New Generation movies suck except for one of them. 'Star Trek II is now on DVD.
'Star Trek' movies:
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (79) **
Star Trek II;The Wrath of Khan (82) ***1/2
Star Trek III:The Search for Spock (84) **1/2
Star Trek IV:The Voyage Home (86) ***1/2
Star Trek V:The Final Frontier (89) *1/2
Star Trek VI:The Undiscovered Country (91) ***
Star Trek:Generations (94) *1/2
Star Trek: First Contact (96) ***
Star Trek:Insurrection (98) *1/2
Star Trek:Nemesis (02) *1/2
Star Trek (09) ***
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Loved the Wrath of Khan. But Star Trek V was simply awful. I remember nearly having to leave the theatre because I laughed so hard I was crying at how BAD it was. If I remember correctly there's a scene where Kirk, Bones and Spock are sitting around a campfire and Kirk and Bones are trying to explain the joys of camping out and singing around a campfire to the unemotional spock ... it's so hokey, it's hysterical... my "date" for the evening nearly had to haul me away.
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