Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

Lack of good storyline.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

Movie Review: "Star Trek: The Voyage Home" (1986)Producer Harve Bennett (1930-2015) onboard since "The Wrath of Khan" keeps promises by raising production budget with Paramount Picture executive for a Thanksgiving releae of year 1986, where any favoring "Star Trek" spectator gets pushed onto Planet "Earth" of the Californian San Francisco bay area, when the solidly-directed movie by Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015) must give in to comedic cultural clashes between the rebel-to-conservative loving 20th century versus 23rd century knowledge, which may not present itself in supense-driving visual splendors of its predecessors.The screenplay feels highly constructed and at times over-written as centered eco-save-the-whale-mission over slapstick confrontation at a hospital with fame-seeking white-dressed surgeons and rag-jacket-wearing "Bones" McCoy, portrayed by DeForest Kelley (1920-1999) in performances of a life-time, who alongside "Spock" character reprising Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015) and the ease-of-a-peaking-career pushing leading actor William Shatner, at age 55, run through scenes of obstacles with sidekicking ecologist/zoologist character Gillian, peformed by Catherine Hicks, when a bunch of century-bridging characters must bring a pair of two humpback whales back to the 23rd century to save the future from an alien-invading phantom threat in the eye of annihilation.Production values are intact with "Star Trek: The Voyage Home" in order to remain quality motion picture entertainment, especially with Academy-Award-nominated visual and sound effects coming from an emerging always boundaries-pushing company of "Industrial, Light and Magic" (ILM) to well-paced 110-Minute-Editorial by film cutter Peter E. Berger (1944-2011) and an entertainment underlining score by Leonard Rosenman (1924-2008), who together shape a fulminate success with the U.S. American box office in holiday season 1986/1987 by exceeding spectre attendance by more then 28 Million moviegoers, which comes in retrospective near the success concerning reinvention efforts of "Star Trek" produced and directed by J.J. Abrams in season 2007/2008 for the smash hit release of May 8th 2009.Nevertheless watching this particular "Star Trek" picture today, which seems to become even more out-of-place with nearly two thirds of screen-time staying in an unforgiven 1980s environment before the picture just finishes with promotion all along, coming out clean for each and every character presented to no further thrills given.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

Just an enjoyable romp that never takes itself too seriously, gives each cast member moments and something to do, has a message, and manages to capture the spirit of the original show maybe better than any other of the films. Such a fun movie that you can overlook a few issues (like the fact that they left technology in the past... whoops!)

Having been one of the shows that was part of my childhood and growing up, the original 'Star Trek' still holds up as great and ground-breaking, even if not perfect.The feature films based on the original series has been a mixed bag. 'The Motion Picture', 'The Search for Spock' and 'Final Frontier' were disappointing, but there were also some gems and 'The Voyage Home' is one of them. The overall best of the films? Not quite, to me the biggest contender for that title is 'The Wrath of Khan'. 'The Voyage Home' is easily the most entertaining.It may not be the 'Star Trek' film if you are looking for sense, a few parts are absurd and a little all over the place, or the one to see if one is wanting traditional sci-fi spectacle (though the film is not devoid of that).Very little of that matters however, when you are so engrossed in the characters and their relationships and conflicts, the humour, captivated by the production values and basically enjoying yourself so much.'The Voyage Home' is a visual treat, the production values of the film are significantly improved generally over those for the original show. It's beautifully shot, very elaborate in setting and the special effects are pretty amazing. Leonard Rosenman proves himself a worthy successor to Jerry Goldsmith and James Horner, rousing without feeling over-scored and with sensitive moments too, if not quite as clever as Horner's scoring.Leonard Nimoy's directing is so much more relaxed here than it was in 'The Search for Spock', more expansive and far more suited to feature film. 'The Voyage Home' is full of witty humour, in how it pokes fun at the idiosyncrasies of modern California life, romantic intrigue and intelligent thought. Shatner's romance is nicely done but the comic double act with Nimoy is far more interesting.The story is enormous fun, tightly paced and the characters are true to character and fascinatingly developed. The save the whales message is not exactly a subtle one, but it is direct, makes its point and doesn't feel too preachy.William Shatner's performance here is one of his better performances in the series, not overacting as much. Nimoy demonstrates why Spock is such an interesting and impossible to forget character, and DeForest Kelley's material is some of his meatiest which he relishes. Catherine Hicks is a nice presence. The team really let their hair down and clearly have fun while still feeling like the 'Star Trek' characters we know and love.In conclusion, great, a voyage well worth taking and one of the better films based on the original series. 9/10 Bethany Cox

This film is the fourth film of the franchise and clearly addresses a naturalistic theme, very dear of this time, when ecological movements began to be noticed. In fact, the script itself consists of a trip to the past to save the last representatives of a certain species of whales. Obviously the issue around time travel is pure science fiction and the way the Enterprise craft does this seemed unlikely, but everything else is extremely positive in the movie. I loved the way the script made comedy with the shock of the future travelers (especially Dr. McCoy) with our social and technological backwardness. These moments of humor are the strongest and most appealing point of this film. The technical details of the film are roughly the same as the previous films, in particular with regard to the special effects that these days do not seem very surprising due to the computer effects we get used to. And as for the actors it can be said that it is the film of DeForest Kelley par excellence, in that the actor gets some of the most memorable scenes. The remaining cast, however, live up to our expectations, contributing to make this film a worthy continuation of the franchise.