Star Trek: The Motion Picture

1979 "The human adventure is just beginning."
6.4| 2h12m| G| en| More Info
Released: 07 December 1979 Released
Producted By: Paramount
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: https://www.paramountmovies.com/movies/star-trek-the-motion-picture
Synopsis

When a destructive space entity is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral Kirk resumes command of the Starship Enterprise in order to intercept, examine, and hopefully stop it.

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Diagonaldi Very well executed
Jeanskynebu the audience applauded
Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.
FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.
Anshul Agrawal The movie's unnecessarily long run time due to its drawn out scenes of ships, clouds and space, and a boring substandard plot which makes use of none of its strong characters, makes me wonder why I even bothered to write this review.
frickabee This movie is completely nonsensical and ridiculous. The absurdity begins with Commander Sonak being introduced as the Enterprise's new science officer shortly before suffering a gruesome death in a creepy ass transporter effect. Later as the Enterprise departs the solar system, they just happen to do so during a rare alignment of all the planets. Almost immediately, the Enterprise gets caught in the only wormhole in the Star Trek universe with a quantum level oscillation delay effect, but they escape by blowing up an asteroid within it. When the Enterprise encounters the cloud, it somehow becomes the only vessel who's shields withstand a blast of its plasma energy. Moments before the second plasma torpedo hits, it simply vanishes after the Enterprise transmits linguacode. Once the enterprise enters the cloud, it gets stopped by a giant sphincter which puckers up every few seconds, It is then that Spock discovers that with just a blank stare on his face and not even looking at his monitors, he can gather facts not only about V'ger, but an entire mechanical civilization on the other side of the galaxy as well. At the end when V'Ger's true nature is revealed, the audience is treated to a series of loud fart-like sounds every time an absurd plot twist is revealed while Kirk looks around as if wondering where they came from. The purpose for those ugly belt devices the crew wears is never explained either, but I imagine they are "reward" devices similar to the one in Suburban Commando.Despite all its flaws, annoyances and the fact that it's an obvious rip-off of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Trek: The Motion Picture is still much more watchable than any of the Next Generation or reboot films. The original cast always had great chemistry and the special effects combined with the orchestral music is relaxing to watch, even if it does drag the movie on far too long.
nonstopmaximum Below average acting (probably from everyones experience with the animated series) and waaaaaay too much dialogue. The strange plot surrounding a massive vessel called the intruder doesn't help either. This has the distinction of being one of the most boring movies ever made.
Eric Stevenson In a weird way, I kind of recommend this movie. It's kind of weird how the last "Star Trek" movie I watch (well before the new ones come out) happens to be the first. It really is interesting to see where such a long running sci-fi movie franchise began. I actually really do like the appearance of the film. Already it looks like a step up from the TV show. Granted, I've never seen a full episode of that. For me, it really did seem like a long episode of the show. As I said in my "Doctor Who" review, that's not really a good thing.This is the longest "Star Trek" movie ever made or at least it's tied with "Star Trek: Into Darkness" a far superior movie. This film suffers from lingering shots of space that are pointless. It's irritating with such a long movie. Interestingly enough, in a certain way it did work a bit. It made the movie really leisurely to watch. I mean, it's still boring, but it was something you could take your time with. The visual effects really do hold up. The story itself is okay, with the characters journeying to stop an anomaly from reaching Earth. It's pretty much a mediocre movie, but it's still interesting given how significant it is as a film. **1/2