Star Trek 2: The Trekening was almost frame-for-frame exactly what I expected. Don't take that entirely as a condemnation. Darkness wasn't something that'd force me to light a cigar halfway through with the deliberate intention of being thrown out (so far only The Crow: City of Angels, Queen of the Damned, Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, and Avatar have warranted lighting the emergency escape cigar. And no, I didn't mean The Last Airbender there. Seriously, fuck Avatar.)
I don't really have anything nice to say, either. Good job, JJ. That sure was an action movie where you could make a drinking game out of callbacks to older moments that were more effective when they were made on a fraction of this film's catering budget.
So... yeah. Didn't hate it. Blame Cumberbatch doing what he does, to the point that I'm really disappointed they didn't [spoiler]leave Kirk dead and make him captain[/spoiler]. Next up: Cumberbatch is a sociopathic genius Nazi dragon. The rest of the movie doesn't matter. Is he from the moon? Sure. Fuck it.