Word of Mouth Has Killed

[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by DarkHorse:
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Kicked @ss start to finish. The best villain ever in the ST universe. Best part; none of the characters were played for cheap laughs.

Star Trek has always played its characters for cheap laughs.

Star Trek IV: The Beginning of the End

Horrible. Ridiculous. And to make matters worse, they resurrected the recurring thorn-in-the-side of Time-Travel (TM), the universal schtick of trying to make a movie interesting by introducing ludicrous plot devices that cause infinitely more problems than they solve. And here we first see our beloved characters played for cheap laughs. Unforgivable.

Second best of the bunch, because its funny, and good star trek at the same time.

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

A serviceable attempt to right the ship. Still playing characters for cheap laughs, but at least the overarching theme (cold war ends) was timely for once and fairly well done. Shakespeare spouting Klingons (how would they have even known about the Bard?) was again stretching credibility, but Captain Sulu to the rescue! That was a good touch, and fun to watch the Excelsior kick some butt. Extremely hokey ending, though.

I have a question for you. Why _wouldn't_ the Klingons know about Shakespeare?