Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

GetPapa Far from Perfect, Far from Terrible

Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

jacobjohntaylor1 This is one of the best movies I have seen. It has a great story line and great acting. It is better then the show. It is also better then the first Star Trek movie. Star Trek V is better. But still this a great movie.

Torrin-McFinn77 I rented this movie some years ago and watched it after the first three. Wrath of Khan was pretty good, but this was definitely better. San Francisco, humpback whales, outstanding sets, a fugitive crew, and Catherine Hicks (of 7th Heaven and Child's Play). I wasn't aware of the box office numbers back then but I might have heard about the time travel. Of all the Star Trek films, this one was the best (IMO) and it sent a good eco-friendly message to not only the Trekkies, but also to the people concerned about the state of our planet. Save the whales because tomorrow they might be gone. That's not a prophecy; it's a message!

cinemajesty Movie Review: "Star Trek: The Voyage Home" (1986)Producer Harve Bennett (1930-2015) onboard since "The Wrath of Khan" keeps promises by raising production budget with Paramount Picture executive for a Thanksgiving releae of year 1986, where any favoring "Star Trek" spectator gets pushed onto Planet "Earth" of the Californian San Francisco bay area, when the solidly-directed movie by Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015) must give in to comedic cultural clashes between the rebel-to-conservative loving 20th century versus 23rd century knowledge, which may not present itself in supense-driving visual splendors of its predecessors.The screenplay feels highly constructed and at times over-written as centered eco-save-the-whale-mission over slapstick confrontation at a hospital with fame-seeking white-dressed surgeons and rag-jacket-wearing "Bones" McCoy, portrayed by DeForest Kelley (1920-1999) in performances of a life-time, who alongside "Spock" character reprising Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015) and the ease-of-a-peaking-career pushing leading actor William Shatner, at age 55, run through scenes of obstacles with sidekicking ecologist/zoologist character Gillian, peformed by Catherine Hicks, when a bunch of century-bridging characters must bring a pair of two humpback whales back to the 23rd century to save the future from an alien-invading phantom threat in the eye of annihilation.Production values are intact with "Star Trek: The Voyage Home" in order to remain quality motion picture entertainment, especially with Academy-Award-nominated visual and sound effects coming from an emerging always boundaries-pushing company of "Industrial, Light and Magic" (ILM) to well-paced 110-Minute-Editorial by film cutter Peter E. Berger (1944-2011) and an entertainment underlining score by Leonard Rosenman (1924-2008), who together shape a fulminate success with the U.S. American box office in holiday season 1986/1987 by exceeding spectre attendance by more then 28 Million moviegoers, which comes in retrospective near the success concerning reinvention efforts of "Star Trek" produced and directed by J.J. Abrams in season 2007/2008 for the smash hit release of May 8th 2009.Nevertheless watching this particular "Star Trek" picture today, which seems to become even more out-of-place with nearly two thirds of screen-time staying in an unforgiven 1980s environment before the picture just finishes with promotion all along, coming out clean for each and every character presented to no further thrills given.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

a_chinn This is likely the Star Trek film with the widest appeal, in that it's essentially a fish-out-of-water comedy with a little sci-fi thrown in. An unknown ship is approaching earth, broadcasting an indecipherable message, and destroying all planets in it's wake. The Enterprise crew figures out that the message is whale sounds, except that whales have been extinct for hundreds of years, so there's no one left to answer the ship. This leads our intrepid crew to slingshot around the sun to travel back in time in order to bring a whale to the future to save future earth. Once in modern day San Francisco (or 1980s San Francisco), the crew has a series of humorous encounters with cars, money, and punk rockers, while trying to secure a whale. It's all quite funny and entertaining, but it's not very "Trek." The characters are all still the characters we know and love, but the story is pretty much "Crocodile Dundee" "Coming to America" or "The Out-of-Towners" except with the Star Trek crew out of their element. But not to be too dismissive, it is a lot of fun and is never boring, which is more than can be said of most Star Trek films, which tend to be pretty hit-or-miss. The film also get bonus points for including my favorite Go-Go, Jane Wiedlin as an Alien Communications Officer.