Review of Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) by Donald W — 04 Jul 2009
This is the movie that pulled Star Trek from the world of TV re-runs and made it into the most popular Sci-Fi movie series of all time. The plot is basically a re-write of "The Changeling" episode from the original TV series.
It also has elements of "Run Silent Run Deep", the submarine movie with Clark Gable but then so did "Balance of Terror". Unfortunately they over did it with the special effects in an attempt to keep up with "Star Wars".
The special effects took too long and they almost ran out of time making the movie. The new director's cut DVD is the way it was intended but even then the original effects were sometimes crude. That's what made the original TV show so cool.
The effects were so cheesy they were entertaining. The effects in the movie were cool at first and then began to get repetitive and boring. The LaserDisc version with the version shown on TV with added scenes is bad.
Some of the added scenes were filmed later just to add to the TV version and the props don't match and there is one scene were they didn't finish the special effects and you see Captan Kirk hanging is space below a section of the Enterprise surrounded by the rafters of the sound stage where it was filmed.
Although the original theatrical version is good the special Director's Cut on DVD is better.
This review of Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) was written by Donald W on 04 Jul 2009.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture has generally received mixed reviews.
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