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Archive for April, 2009

“Star Trek” launches the 2009 summer movie season (forget “Wolverine,” at least for now) in much the same way “Iron Man” got last year’s season off to a great start.    It’s bright and fast, fun and fizzy, witty and, really, kind of wonderful.   It reminds us that sometimes we go to the movies just to get a kick out of what we see on the screen.

For this movie to be fun is quite an achievement.   This is a “Star Trek” movie, after all.   And there have been plenty before it, some of them kind of great (like “Wrath of Kahn”) and some of them pretty awful (like “Nemesis”) but none of them ever approaching fun.   Going Where No One Has Gone Before has always been terribly serious business; there are leagues of Trekkies out there, after all, who are checking every detail, cross-referencing every serial number, and making sure it’s all “canon.”  Everything has to measure up.   Everything has to match.   It’s hard, headachy work to make a Star Trek movie, and almost as much work to watch one.   Until now.