Star Trek: The Motion Picture 1979

Vincent Canby, New York Times: [It's] like attending your high-school class's 10th reunion at Caesar's Palace. Most of the faces are familiar, but the decor has little relationship to anything you've ever seen before. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: This 1979 movie adaptation of the cult TV series is blandness raised to an epic scale. Read more

Kathleen Carroll, New York Daily News: Not so much a movie as it is a sort of giant display case ... Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: 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. Read more

Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: Nothing but a long day's journey into ennui. Read more

Time Out: For non-addicts, the smart plot and effects go some way towards compensating for the plastic characters and costumes. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: 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. Read more

Derek Elley, Variety: Read more