With Star Trek Abrams honors the show's legacy without fossilizing its best qualities. Instead, he's whisked it off to a planet where numbing nostalgia can't kill it, and where the future is still something to look forward to. full review

In going back to tell the Enterprise story from the beginning, Star Trek presses collective emotional buttons people didn't even know they had. At its best, the effect is like seeing life panoramically, past and future, simultaneous and magnificent. full review

Star Trek goes back to the legend's roots with a boldness that brings a fatigued franchise back to life. full review

You needn't know the secret handshakes or utter the Vulcan blessing "live long and prosper" to gain admission to, and enjoy, summer's first thrill ride. full review

In his daft, dizzy reinvention of a moribund franchise, Abrams has found a way to be referential without being reverential, to conjure nostalgia without being constrained by it. full review

Highly illogical but entertaining as hell. full review

I can name exactly three and a half things "Star Trek" gets wrong -- and I can name about a thousand that Abrams and his cast and crew get absolutely, pitch-perfect, elegantly right. full review

Quinto is the one person here who may leave teen-aged viewers more perplexed than puffed up; he somehow rebukes the movie's whole obsession with backstory and immaturity by seeming riper and wiser than the charmless folly that is spun around him. full review

It is pleasant to report that though it's not perfect, the reconstituted Star Trek is successful enough for everyone to breathe a sigh of relief. full review

A bright, shiny blast from a newly imagined past. full review

The aim here is to court a new generation of fans without alienating the true believers speaking Klingon in the box-office lines. full review

This is really the story of how the Enterprise crew meets, hammers out its differences and becomes a team, and the telling is pure bliss. full review

There are many satisfyingly sly flourishes in Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman's script. full review

Abrams' cannily constructed prequel respects (for the most part) the rules of that world and, more importantly, retains the original Star Trek's spirit of optimism, curiosity, and humor. full review

Phasers set on "stunning." full review

hen it comes to sheer spectacle, Star Trek, as re-imagined by J.J. Abrams, delivers. full review

A movie that, against all odds, has miraculously resurrected a wheezing but beloved franchise. full review

Abrams' redo isn't just a blast from the past. It's a blast. full review

It's also a pleasure to report that, not only have Gene Roddenberry's ideas stood up pretty well over the decades, so have Spock's ears. full review

A film that should appeal to longtime Trekkies, sci-fi neophytes and pretty much anybody who likes a good action flick. full review