Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
Average Rating: 5.7/10
Reviews Counted: 34
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 19
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Average Rating: 5.2/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 3
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Movie Info
When a destructive space entity is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral Kirk resumes command of the Starship Enterprise in order to intercept, examine and hopefully stop it.
Dec 7, 1979 Wide
Nov 6, 2001
Paramount Home Video
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Cast
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William Shatner
James T. Kirk -
Leonard Nimoy
Mr. Spock -
DeForest Kelley
Leonard "Bones" McCoy -
Stephen Collins
Cmdr. Willard Decker -
James Doohan
Montgomery "Scotty" Sco... -
George Takei
Hikaru Sulu -
Majel Barrett
Christine Chapel -
Persis Khambatta
Lt. Ilia -
Walter Koenig
Pavel Chekov -
Nichelle Nichols
Uhura -
Mark Lenard
Klingon Captain -
Billy Van Zandt
Alien Boy -
Grace Lee Whitney
Janice Rand -
David Gautreaux
Commander Branch -
Marcy Lafferty
Chief DiFalco -
Michael Rougas
Lt. Cleary -
Ralph Brannen
Crew Member -
Roger Aaron Brown
Epsilon Technician -
Ralph Byers
Crew Member -
Paula Crist
Crew Member -
Gary Faga
Airlock Technician -
John D. Gowans
Assistant to Rand -
Jon Rashad Kamal
Lt. Commander Sonak -
Tom Morga
Klingon Crewman -
Franklyn Seales
Crew Member -
Paul Weber
Vulcan Master -
Joel Kramer
Klingon Crewman -
Momo Yashima
Crew Member -
Susan Sullivan
Woman -
Craig Thomas
Klingon Crewman
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All Critics (35) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (20) | Rotten (20) | DVD (29)
Nothing but a long day's journey into ennui.
The expensive effects (under supervision of Douglas Trumbull) are the secret of this film, and the amazing wizardry throughout would appear to justify the whopping budget.
This 1979 movie adaptation of the cult TV series is blandness raised to an epic scale.
For non-addicts, the smart plot and effects go some way towards compensating for the plastic characters and costumes.
Top Critic[It's] like attending your high-school class's 10th reunion at Caesar's Palace. Most of the faces are familiar, but the décor has little relationship to anything you've ever seen before.
Star Trek - The Motion Picture: Director's Edition is no 2001 (its obvious inspiration -- a fact that is more evident here than ever before), but it represents thought-provoking, well constructed science fiction.
Merely a weak, inapt Star Trek movie, not a completely awful one.
Far too much time is spent with the bridge crew staring at special effects in awe.
The Enterprise's first feature, with smarts outdoing guns.
Star Trek's freshman big screen effort was crippled by a plodding pace and a somber tone.
The special effects hold up pretty well and make for some attractive viewing. (Blu-ray Collection)
More of an event than a movie...more flash than content.
If the endless interstellar vistas of 2001: A Space Odyssey tested your patience, Star Trek: The Motion Picture will make you cry like a little star child.
a little too boring
As an exploration of the loneliness of a unique machine consciousness, great! As an exciting SF experience, maybe not.
Director Robert Wise has no feeling for Trek's pop insouciance, and the movie unfolds ponderously.
The long, majestic scene in which Scotty (James Doohan) takes Kirk in a shuttle toward the refurbished Enterprise is still breathtaking.
Audience Reviews for Star Trek: The Motion Picture
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- James T. Kirk: What it needs in order to evolve is a human quality. Our capacity to leap beyond logic.
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- Leonard "Bones" McCoy: Spock, this 'child' is about to wipe out every living thing on Earth. Now, what do you suggest we do? Spank it?
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- James T. Kirk: Warp drive, Mister Scott!
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