At last a Hollywood film I can actually relate to. This film is repetitive, over-stretched and overblown (not unlike Mr Shatner himself, in fact) but the script is genius. It's all the little details such as the wind blowing all over the cast in the restaurant before one delivers that priceless Shatner speech and the stuff about Logan's Run (has anyone else picked up on the gay love triangle angle of that film yet?) This next bit is true. When I was a kid I too looked up to Captain Kirk. He was handsome, got the girl and always seemed to make the right decision to get the ship out of trouble. He was the man you always wanted to be. When I finally got a girl into bed (nothing happened, we were drunk) I thought "Wow, this girl must really be into me if she trusts me enough to crash out drunk with me, I must be the bomb". Suddenly she turned over in her sleep and sighed at the top of her voice: "Oh, Captain Kirk". That put things back into perspective. But it does at least prove, like this film says, that women are into this stuff too although they can't all be as gorgeous as the actress portrayed in it. The success with women angle was hard to swallow but it did examine the effect of pop culture on people's lives, which so many pundits say has no effect whatsoever, despite the fact advertising is designed to do exactly that.
Shatner does not quite seem real playing himself which was probably appropriate but delivers the film's best line in a bar: "Why come over here for a drink when you can have one on your own at home?-"No, that's called alcoholism." Personally, I thought he gave a strong performance in the original series, better than that bald headed guy in 'The Next Generation'. I refuse to watch it, it's bogus. Not that I'm anything like the geek in this film who watches films, can't hold a job, bums money off others and refuses to deal with reality. The room I live in is far too small for toys.
