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The film was also met by critics who were less taken with the film. Kyle Smith of the New York Post gave the film 1 stars out of 4 and he commented that the filmmakers "should have called it Star Trek Into Drowsiness." Smith later added, "Beyond is tepid when it's trying to be emotional, moronic when it's trying to be thrilling and unfunny when it's trying to be non-unfunny. It lacks a storytelling module: Things just click into place when needed, as when Kirk commands Scotty to rev up a busted old spaceship, Scott says it's impossible, and 14 seconds later everything is ready to rip."[101] James Berardinelli of Reelviews gave 2 stars out of 4, writing: "Star Trek Beyond is a Star Trek movie, although not an especially good one; The action sequences are frenetic, kinetic, and, at times, incoherent. This isn't unexpected; it's Lin's trademark. But the plot, credited to Simon Pegg & Doug Jung, is pure Trek. Unfortunately, it's also instantly forgettable."[102] Dave Robinson of outlet Crash Landed writes that "Star Trek Beyond fails to push beyond its own roots and becomes just another very safe sci-fi popcorn movie in an increasingly crowded market, that will likely have you leaving the theatre feeling exactly as you entered."[103] Chris Nashawaty of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a C+ and wrote, "[w]ith Beyond, it feels like just another summer tentpole with not enough going on underneath the tent."[104]
The performances, too. For three movies now Pine, Zachary Quinto (as the conflicted half-Vulcan, half-human Spock), Karl Urban (as cranky surgeon "Bones" McCoy), and the rest of the merry Enterprise crew have threaded the needle of evoking their famous forebears without simply offering impressions. They're all beautifully simpatico with one another. It seems significant that their names appear in the credits alphabetically rather than by order of fame or screen time. The ensemble is the star.
Director Justin Lin is best known for making installments 3-6 in the hugely popular Fast and the Furious series. Beyond's climactic action sequence is as chaotic and hard to follow (in IMAX 3D, anyway) as the ones in the Furious movies, but Lin has a great handle on the camaraderie and fellowship among the crew. He does give us one bravura set piece, the layer-by-layer dissection and eventual "sinking" of the Enterprise. (Don't yell at me; this plot point is in the trailer, which is maybe why the destruction of the ship isn't quite the sobering affair it was in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock 32 summers ago. Yes, I'm sure that's the only reason.) The vast budgetary advantages the 21st century Treks pictures have enjoyed over their usually penny-pinching forebears is most apparent in these exterior shots. It's thrilling when the "camera" swoops around the Enterprise in these digitally-animated sequences from angles previously unseen. In space, of course, there is no up or down, though it is possible to roll down the windows of your starship and blast 300-year-old Beastie Boys songs, somehow.
Its one of the things I don't like about these new movies... shields for example are portrayed as non-existent actually. If you look at the battle between the Enterprise and Vengeance for instance (Star Trek Darkness), you'd see that each phaser shot and torpedo makes contact on the hull itself as if the shields aren't there (and Kirk did order shields up with enough time just before the Vengeance started attacking).
Additionally, the alternate reality film franchise had started to cause a rift between the "old guard" fanbase and newcomers to the franchise, with the former expressing their reservations about the alternate reality (re)incarnation, especially for its lack of "the Roddenberry factor", as Star Trek production staff veteran Doug Drexler had put it, [139](X) but which was present in Beyond, courtesy Director Justin Lin and Writer Simon Pegg, making it the trio's best received one by the [old guard] fanbase. Whereas newcomers on the other hand had flocked to the first two action packed films, precisely because it was fast paced fun and in line with similar fare offered to them by other franchises which catered to the current tastes of contemporary cinema goers (being coined "fun, popcorn movies" by former Star Trek production staffer Roger Lay, Jr. [140]), they apparently deemed Beyond as "too Trekkie" to their tastes. [141] [142]
Parents need to know that Star Trek Beyond is the 13th Star Trek movie overall, the third installment since 2009's big-budget series reboot, and the first directed by Justin Lin (of the Fast & Furious franchise). There's plenty of big, boomy sci-fi/fantasy action violence, including space battles, crashes, explosions, minor characters being hurt or killed, hand-to-hand and martial arts fighting, and a mean, angry bad guy. A major character is injured, and there's a painful but comical scene involving his impalement wound. Language is infrequent but does include a couple of uses of "horses--t," as well as "damn," "hell," "bastard," and "my God." Two characters in a romantic relationship spend this movie in a fight, so only a kiss on the cheek is shown between them; there's also a brief scene of a woman throwing a shirtless man out of her cabin/quarters. Characters occasionally drink fine scotch or other spirits, but mainly for enjoyment, though one character does try to get drunk. Overall, the movie's good attitude and strong messages related to teamwork and diversity overcome its iffy material, making it a great pick for older tweens and up. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails.
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