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Star Trek (2009) |  | Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 3
Format: NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
UPC: 097363485063
EAN: 0097363485063
ASIN: B002EB439W
Release Date: November 17, 2009 (New: This Week)
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J.J. Abrams' 2009 feature film was billed as "not your father's emStar Trek/em," but your father will probably love it anyway. And what's not to love? It has enough action, emotional impact, humor, and sheer fun for any moviegoer, and Trekkers will enjoy plenty of insider references and a cast that seems ideally suited to portray the characters we know they'll become later. Both a prequel and a reboot, emStar Trek/em introduces us to James T. Kirk (Chris Pine of emThe Princess Diaries 2/em), a sharp but aimless young man who's prodded by a Starfleet captain, Christopher Pike (Bruce Greenwood), to enlist and make a difference. At the Academy, Kirk runs afoul of a Vulcan commander named Spock (Zachary Quinto of emHeroes/em), but their conflict has to take a back seat when Starfleet, including its new ship, the emEnterprise/em, has to answer an emergency call from Vulcan. What follows is a stirring tale of genocide and revenge launched by a Romulan (Eric Bana) with a particular interest in Spock, and we get to see the familiar crew come together, including McCoy (Karl Urban), Uhura (Zoe Saldana), Sulu (John Cho), Chekhov (Anton Yelchin), and Scottie (Simon Pegg).pThe action and visuals make for a spectacular Big-Screen Movie, though the plot by Abrams and his writers, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman (who worked together on emTransformers/em and with Abrams on emAlias/em and emMission Impossible III/em), and his producers (fellow emLost/emies Damon Lindeloff and Bryan Burk) can be a bit of a mind-bender (no surprise there for emLost/em fans). Hardcore fans with a bone to pick may find faults, but resistance is futile when you can watch Kirk take on the emKobayashi Maru/em scenario or hear McCoy bark, "Damnit, man, I'm a doctor, not a physicist!" An appearance by Leonard Nimoy and hearing the late Majel Barrett Roddenberry as the voice of the computer simply sweeten the pot. Now comes the hard part: waiting for some sequels to this terrific prequel. em--David Horiuchi/em
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 Why the delay in shipping? November 18, 2009
Widre (Canada)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This version of ST (which I saw in the theatre) is wonderful and a true delight to any ST fan. I can't wait to have the DVD in my hands.
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br /Which brings me to the reason for this post - where the heck is my copy? Why is the Canadian shipping date 6 - 11 days after release? Why should I not expect delivery until after the end of November?
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br /What, did someone decide that Canadians didn't deserve to have this DVD the same time as their US counterparts?
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br /I have used Amazon Canada many, many times in the past and have usually received fast, efficent delivery. I had no reason not to expect the same this time.
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br /Needless to say, I am disappointed that Canadians are not allowed to have the same service as others in the case of this movie.
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br /Live long and prosper.
Not your daddy's Star Trek November 18, 2009
Lorenzo Moscato (Montreal, QC)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is most certainly not your daddy's Star Trek. It's a fun and very visual film, filled with action, adventure, and comedy. It's what you'd expect out of a re-boot of the Star Trek franchise. The haters are just those who are stuck in the past. Star Trek needed to evolve into something more, and J.J. Abrams made this film something everyone, not just the nerdy Trekky, could enjoy. 5 Stars for Star Trek!
A Visual Feast November 18, 2009
Peter Cantelon (Morden, Manitoba, Canada)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
br /The Blu-Ray three disk package does not disappoint. I watched on 50" widescreen 1080p and the visuals were flawless. I kept looking for seams in Spock's ears etc. and all the effects were spectacularly done. Of course this reboot of the series had to be perfect for the movie to work...Star Trek has been done to death and only one reboot has arguably been decent - Star Trek: The Next Generation (and that was because he was involved in its creation).
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br /There are many awesome features to be had throughout the disks including deleted scenes, bloopers and documentaries galore. Disk three has a digital copy of the movie for iTunes and iPod which works perfectly (already loaded onto my iPod).
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br /All in all shining example of what Blu-Ray can do to a fantastic sci-fi film with an amazing story and cast of characters. No doubt there will be more of the crew of the starship Enterprise to come.
 A boring desecration of a franchise that was great under Ira Steven Behr's "Deep Space Nine" November 17, 2009
Iqbal Faizer (Montreal to Toronto, Canada)
0 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is an unforgivably horrible film because it is driven purely by commercial considerations and has no artistic or political activist integrity whatsoever.
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The BEST Star Trek film, Hands Down. November 14, 2009
Richard S. Warner (Toronto, Canada)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Well, Mr. Horiuchi pretty much synopsized the entire film in a nutshell above but what I have to add is that for me, definitely of the generation of the "dad" he spoke of, I LOVE this "Star Trek" movie more than any other..... and I AM a fan of the original series.
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br /What made the original show so successful and so eternally appealing, despite the almost laughably low budget appearance of it now, was the brilliant character creation. None of the subsequent franchises, yes, not even the mighty "Next Generation", had quite the same rich variation of such distinct characters and their complex and often very, very funny interactions that the original "Star Trek" had. The grumbling techno-phobia of crusty Dr. McCoy and his on-going bickering with Spock's "pointed eared hobgoblin", Scotty's fanatical love of his ship, all things technical and his endearing excitability, Spock's statuesque nobility, his constant battle with himself and his secretly very human love of goading Dr. Mccoy, all behind the seemingly impervious mask of unassailable logic and of course, Kirk's over the top machismo and ceaseless intergalactic philandering...
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br /And with this version, rebooted, if you wish, that very same set of relationships in their nascent forms STILL delights and truly forms the basis of this incredibly good movie. Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and Karl Urban especially shine in their roles as the young Federation cadets and how they all came to form the classic crew of the Starship Enterprise.
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br /All the other series were all so ... "EARNEST", just reeking of their need to be politically correct. But this set of people is pretty damn real, full of faults and quirks and eccentricities that endear you to them instantly.
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br /Nothing in this movie made me bust a gut more loudly than Leonard "Bones" McCoy's first entrance. Utterly classic. DeForest Kelley would be proud.
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br /But I think the film's great success can also be attributed to the fact that if you've never watched a single second of the original series, and you've never known where "Live long and prosper" comes from, you can still LOVE this "Star Trek", it's THAT well done. The Romulans and that monster ship were truly awesome. Eric Bana put in a very powerful turn as the "Ahab" captain, obsessed with revenge to the destruction of all else. The plot had the requisite brain twister and there was a very healthy serving of edge-of-your-seat action. And for us "Dads", it's a giant hoot and a half to see this done with absolute panache and perfection. If anything's been a tribute to Gene Roddenberry's original vision and an indication of the perennial relevance of it, it is this movie.
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