“Fans will be thrilled, though not nearly as much as Paramount Pictures shareholders.

“If you’re lucky – and this is rare – you can figure out which robots are fighting and, eventually, who won.

“Did it really take William Shatner in the director’s chair to finally give us a decent Star Trek movie?

“Star Trek finally gets imaginative, exciting and – dare I say it? – kinky.

“It’s back to boring basics for the Gene Roddenberry franchise…

“At this point, looking to juice the series with action scenes is the equivalent of applying a defibrillator to a cadaver.

The filmmakers behind X-Men Origins: Wolverine want their movie to be dark – partly as an artistic choice but mainly, I think, out of financial envy over the billion-dollar gross of the aptly titled Batman installment, The Dark Knight. And so the movie – which tells the background story of Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), the X-Men

“…Kirk has finally reached his full lounge lizard potential (it’s as if the comedy has freed him from his remaining inhibitions).

“Thompson’s funny, carnal performance forces us all to face an ugly truth: once, our moms might have been prowling teens too.