Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
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Actor: DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Leonard Nimoy, Walter Koenig, William ShatnerBrand: Paramount
Cinematographer: Donald Peterman
Composer: Leonard Rosenman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Portuguese (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 118 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-09-22
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Movie Review: Will time be kind to this film?
Summary: 5 Stars
This is generally considered the best Star Trek movie. My personal favorite may be number V The Final Frontier. James Doohan (Scotty) in his autobiography mentioned that the final movie with all the crew, Star Trek VI, The Undiscovered Country, a good film also, was the most impressive one.
Other reviewers have explained what it is they love about this movie already better than I can. One viewer mentioned it shares a trait with the quirky episode 'A Piece of the Action' (my favorite TV episode). I didn't notice till I read his review. There was a positive, can-do attitude in this movie, I think, that wasn't in that episode. I love the line where Captain Kirk says something like, "that's the problem here. If you don't use a curse word every other word no one pays attention to you".
In this episode, movie, the characters are back on Earth. They do their best to fit in, particularly captain Kirk, but the time difference is too much. I wonder if they stand for a whole generation trying their best to fit in? We laugh along with them. In the TV show with John Lithgow, Third Rock From the Sun, characters play aliens stuck on Earth trying to fit in with day to day life. In Mork and Mindy, Robin Williams plays an alien trying to fit in. They play aliens but they're really just people trying to adapt? Perhaps there are other shows with this theme.
I think this is the best movie too. I wonder if time will be kind to this movie. On the TV show, Enterprise, they have movie-night once a week. Will the jokes in this movie still be funny? Will half of the fun be trying to figure out what the jokes are? Will it be funny, even if they don't understand it, because they do understand the characters are having fun?
Watching this on TV again I had a bit of a problem with the young lady biologist the crew befriend. She's so 80's. Perhaps it's appropriate but it does date the film. In what is often considered the best TV episode, City on the Edge of Forever, the crew travel back to Earth's past also and meet a young social worker played by Joan Collins. Collins gives a performance for the ages. In the best Next Generation movie, First Contact, Enterprise travels back to Earth's past too. In The Voyage Home, I think, the crew spend most of their time on a Klingon ship they're using. So much is made of 'the Enterprise' on the original TV show. Who knew they didn't really need that ship? There was a Saturday Night Live spoof where the late John Belushi (who was reportedly a big Star Trek fan) plays captain Kirk and Dan Akroyd plays Mr. Spock. It was called 'The last Voyage of the Enterprise' I think. It was very funny. Say what you want about captain Kirk and crew exploring the galaxy, and the 'hokey' nature of the show, or even the crews acting, but they Believed they were on that damn ship.
In the original series there was another episode where the crew travel back in time to the Earth's past, to the 1960's and an experimental rocket test. 'Assignment: Earth' I believe it was called. In the episode they meet another human, who was kidnapped by aliens apparently, and also sent back in time to Earth or sent back to Earth. His name was Seven, or Severin, I believe. He works undercover in an office with his faithful secretary. It's said that these two were supposed to have a spin off show of their own. The episode is a bit different. An X-files type show maybe, before the X-files. The secretary in the episode really stole the show. Perhaps she was too good.
I'm going on and on but I really don't have much to say. I agree that this is the best Star Trek movie. About all I have to add is that thing about the crew being out of place (and out of time) on Earth.
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