Star Trek: The Wrath Of Khan 1982

Janet Maslin, New York Times: Here comes a sequel that's worth its salt. The second Star Trek movie is swift, droll and adventurous, not to mention appealingly gadget-happy. It's everything the first one should have been and wasn't. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: If only director Nicholas Meyer had grasped the implications of his tale more fully and enthusiastically, this might have become a classic piece of cornball SF poetry, but as it stands the tepid acting and one-set claustrophobia take a heavy toll. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Star Trek II added hefty doses of action, adventure, and suspense, injecting life into a concept that had been left moribund by its first big-screen feature. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Although I liked the special effects in the first movie, they were probably not the point; fans of the TV series wanted to see their favorite characters again, and Trek II understood that desire and acted on it. Read more

Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: There is something comfortable, even old-shoeish, about the new film, a sense, appropriate to its theme of coming to terms with middle age, that all aboard are pleasurably rediscovering their best selves. Read more

Paul Taylor, Time Out: The net effect, between embarrassed guffaws, is incredulity: a movie at once post-TV and pre-DW Griffith. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Star Trek II is a very satisfying space adventure, closer in spirit and format to the popular TV series than to its big-budget predecessor. Read more