Tuesday, 2 October 2012

A whale of a time


Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

Directed by Leonard Nimoy this film also stars William Shatner, DeForest Kelly and the usual gang. Our heroes travel back in time to the 1980s to find a pair of humpback whales to bring to the future and pacify an alien problem.

Carrying off from where the previous films left off this film is a departure in tone from early films in the series as it has many more light hearted elements. While the tone of the film is lighter it still looks at the themes of what it means to be human and the comedy is not over played so that it takes you out of the world the films exist in. There are some good performances from the cast and the “fish out of water” nature of the story really works well.

4/5

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