Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
I've been watching the Star Trek films sequentially and for the first time. I think I feel as though each one gets better and better. Not that I feel this one is anywhere close to a masterpiece, but it's nice that they were able to have a little bit of fun with it.
In the commentary they say that Harve Bennett wrote the scenes where the crew are in their own time and Nicholas Meyer wrote all the stuff where they are on Earth in the 1980's. It certainly feels like two different movies. Kind of strange that there seems to be humor in one world and not the other. Why does it make the future seem like it's so humorless? Apparently people in the future no longer swear or understand sarcasm. It's hard to believe that we could change so much, but maybe if we were to meet other life forms.... whatever.
The most amusing parts of this are of course those interactions between the crew of the Enterprise and people from 1980's Earth. Spock swearing, Scotty talking into a computer mouse, Bones fixing some old woman's kidneys, Chekov asking people on the street where to find nuclear vessels in his Russian accent.
I'll have to see if the trend of me enjoying each Star Trek movie more and more continues. I doubt it since I've heard the fifth one is one of the worst.
Rating: 7/10