BizzleCast 20: J.J. Abrams’ STAR TREK (2009) Commentary by The Bizzle

Forget everything you thought you knew about Star Trek. J.J.’s masterpiece to date, this one is at least as much Star Wars as Trek: swashbuckling adventure, fantastic humor, breakneck pace, unbelievably colorful and gorgeously filmed. Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) loves the alien ladies and gets his ass kicked on a regular and highly entertaining basis. But the incredibly sweet, understated, and believable love story between Spock (Zachary Quinto) and Uhura (Zoe Saldana) is what launches this film beyond the final frontier. To quote a friend, this is the best Star Wars movie since Return Of The Jedi. J.J.’s virtuosic direction here almost guarantees that Star Wars Episode VII will be at worst highly entertaining and brilliantly executed. But STAR TREK is the Trek movie for non-Trekkies and yet continues to be one of my faves of all time despite my own Trekkie background. If you like great and exciting films, I guarantee you will enjoy this one. If you want to get straight to the commentary and skip the intro, fast forward to 00:03:40 Please sign up for BizzleCast on iTunes (keyword: BizzleCast) or use the RSS feed on any podcast app: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:35604552/sounds.rss