One thing I really liked about this movie is that it is not a remake. What the creators did in fact was create an alternate timeline of events the "new class" differs from the original stars, and at certain points actually overlap.
The movie begins with a James T. Kirk birth, shows Spock as a young student on his home planet Vulcan, and begins the story of how the crew of the Enterprise (which in the movie is the newly manufactured flagship of Starfleet). The movie's time-travelling plot points are very elegantly explained and because the storyline doesn't undo anything that was done previously, it was much more engaging.
Probably the worst part about the movie were the cliche taglines that you would expect, "Dammit, I'm a doctor not a...", and Chris Pine's attempts at immitating Shatner at certain points in the movie. The movie has a run time of 2 hours and 6 minutes, but it's very engaging, and moves quickly. Probably the worst performance is by Eric Bana, the Romulan-antagonist Nero, who's main direction during the movie is to grunt and look angry. He looks totally bad ass, but it could have been done by anybody, they didn't need to have Eric Bana do that.
The movie is stolen by the comedic relief. Karl Urban playing Leonard McCoy, and Simon Pegg as Scotty are really hilarious, and it's never too much. Once Simon Pegg steps onto the scene, Urban's jokes seem to fall to the background, so I guess they were a perfect compliment to each other.
I enjoyed this movie very much. I suppose I didn't expect too much from it, but it was definitely very well done. If you haven't already, go see it. Here's another review.
Other odd castings Winona Ryder as Spock's mother, and Tyler Perry (you know, from Meet the Brown's) as the head of Starfleet Academy. Totally unneccessary and distracting.
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