Star Trek

[Alex]

I probably could have gone with it up until the bloated cartoon hands and hammy Disney channel acting that accompanied it. I'm guess I was fine with the idea but I think they overplayed it a bit.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Hmmm, I guess I thought his "impersonation" was a necessary adjunct to being curmudgeonly. (I have some experience at this, and often inadvertenly sound like McCoy myself). At least he never did the Southern accent.


On the other hand, the extended slapstick bit of getting Kirk on board the enterprise and annoyingly jabbing him in the neck with a new batch of cure every 3 minutes was my favorite thing in the entire movie.

I don't usually care for slapstick, but this struck me as quintessentialy Star Trek. (The Augustous Gloup slapstick bit did not, and so I was pretty 'meh' on that.)

Now I'm pretty familiar with Star Trek, but the episodes tend to merge together in my memory ... so I can't tell you categorically if there was an episode or episodes where McCoy did this to Kirk, I simply get the impression its a brilliant synthesis of their working relationship.

Repost, because I agree with everything you said. What's even more amazing than the movie itself is that I agree with pretty much everything iSm has said in this entire thread. It's amazing!

Originally Posted by Alex

I probably could have gone with it up until the bloated cartoon hands and hammy Disney channel acting that accompanied it. I'm guess I was fine with the idea but I think they overplayed it a bit.

Yeah, a little hammy, but it didn't hurt it for me.

Just so I'm not hitting middle C over and over I'll mention this - the Scotty sidekick thing made me wince. WTF was that? Completely unnecessary, unfunny, pointless. I'm eternally grateful that it didn't make much noise. And yes, Scotty Augustus Gloop, ouch. At least I thought Scotty's dialogue was funny.


My theory is that Spock and Uhura were totally getting it on the whole time in TOS, they just kept it on the down low.

[Pirate Bill]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

My theory is that Spock and Uhura were totally getting it on the whole time in TOS, they just kept it on the down low.

But Nurse Chapel totally had a thing for Spock. Now I'm going to have to go rewatch TOS specifically to see if there's any cattiness between Chapel and Uhura.

BTW, as soon as they showed the Enterprise bridge my only thought was I wanted to see Yeoman Rand.

[JWBear]

Originally Posted by Pirate Bill

But Nurse Chapel totally had a thing for Spock. Now I'm going to have to go rewatch TOS specifically to see if there's any cattiness between Chapel and Uhura.

BTW, as soon as they showed the Enterprise bridge my only thought was I wanted to see Yeoman Rand.

Well... There is the saucy little song she sings about him in Charlie X...

[Jazzman]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

What's even more amazing than the movie itself is that I agree with pretty much everything iSm has said in this entire thread. It's amazing!

Ha ha! I thought I was the only one thinking this! There must be some planet alignment going on or something! LOL


Since it was mentioned and I forgot about it, I'll add that the flushing of Scotty was a bit much for me too. I especially cringed when Kirk got the trap door opened just in time and Scotty came falling straight down accompanied by only about three cups of water, from the gigantic, hundreds-of-gallons-per-minute, Enterprise Water Slide. I know I'm really picking nits here, but come on! Would it have been so difficult to put a couple garden hoses up there, or a bigger bucket?