Immensely pleasurable.
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01/01/00
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
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Reviews Counted:37
Fresh:31
Rotten:6
Average Rating:6.8/10
Consensus: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home is perhaps the lightest and most purely enjoyable entry of the long-running series, emphasizing the eccentricities of the Enterprise's crew.
Runtime: 2 hrs 16 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: While back on Earth, standing trial for their hijacking of the starship Enterprise (see STAR TREK III), Kirk and his crew are thrust into a new adventure. A space probe threatens to destroy the... [More]
Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Catherine Hicks
Director: Leonard Nimoy
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Reviews for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Top CriticAn effective and enjoyable sample of entertainment -- not good science fiction, but a lightweight piece of comic fantasy utilizing characters so familiar that they feel like old friends.
01/01/00
Top CriticIt's a lightweight, entertaining, relentlessly mainstream action-farce. A high old time, no question. Too bad it's such lousy Star Trek. Here's where the series 'jumped the shark' -- and found that it was a whale.
04/08/06
Funny back-to-the-future adventure spiced with a save-the-whales theme.
09/01/02
The original cast appears to be having more fun than they ever had before.
10/28/01
This is easily the most absurd of the Star Trek stories -- and yet, oddly enough, it is also the best, the funniest and the most enjoyable in simple human terms.
01/01/00
Top CriticKirk & Co return to present-day San Francisco to save the whales in the most enjoyable film of the series so far, also returning to the simplistic morality-play format that gave the original TV series its strength.
01/26/06
I suspect the unconverted will want to be beamed up pronto.
06/06/07
Top CriticOne of the series' strongest episodes.
09/26/01
The most successful and widely appealing of the Star Trek films, The Voyage Home is also the most idiosyncratic… some of the most humorous and humane moments in the Trek canon.
06/24/03
The Voyage Home isn’t as dramatically powerful as the two previous Trek films, but it gives the characters plenty of time to show off their lighter sides.
03/21/03
A happy, heartfelt chapter that reunites the original cast with the original TV format, shying away from the cold and epic scale of the preceding movie adventures.
01/01/00
Top CriticOne of the most purely enjoyable of the Star Trek films.
03/19/03
...Kirk has finally reached his full lounge lizard potential (it's as if the comedy has freed him from his remaining inhibitions).
04/03/09
Mr. Nimoy directed this Star Trek installment, and indeed he should probably direct all of them. His technical expertise leaves much to be desired. But his sincerity is unmistakable, and it counts for a lot.
05/20/03
Top CriticThe plot is totally cornball but amazingly it works extremely well
02/24/03
Better than the previous two films in the series.
01/01/00
Star Trek IV has all the elements people love about this series, and it earns its reputation as one of the long-running franchise's standout entries.
11/07/02
Latest excursion is warmer, wittier, more socially relevant and truer to its TV origins than prior odysseys.
05/19/08
Top Criticthe bad guys... are really my countrymen so... still great though
07/05/08
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