Star Trek IV : The Voyage Home BluRay Edition
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Star Trek IV : The Voyage Home BluRay Edition / Rated PG for colorful metaphors spoken mainly by Spock.
The greatest year for Fish Out of Water movie fans was 1986. Hands down. No contest. End of story. That was the year that saw the release of Crocodile Dundee and Star Trek IV. Don’t argue with me about this. Don’t even think about it.
ST4TVH was the end of what ended up to be a trilogy started with Start Trek II The Wrath of Khan and continued in Star Trek III The Search for Spock. It didn’t start out as a trilogy but it ended up that way with lots of clever writing. Don’t watch IV without 1st watching II and III. Don’t worry about Star Trek The Motion Picture as it doesn’t have anything to do with these films.
In STIV the crew has to save the earth from destruction. Again. This time a giant flying cigar with a soccer ball hanging out of the bottom shows up and starts to threaten mankind. Seems it wants to communicate with whales. They are long since extinct. Unless the whales that don’t exist anymore can answer the calls for communication by the big cigar mankind is headed for the same end as the whales.
Kirk and crew including Spock, now alive again, must utilize time travel to return to earth in 1986 and bring back at least one humpback whale to the earth in the Star Trek time so he can answer the big cigar and send it away happy before the biggest and last temper tantrum ever witnessed by mankind occurs.
What happens when they get to SF in ‘86 makes for the most fun anyone can imagine occurring in a SciFi film. Brilliant, funny and exciting is the result. Everything in the film turned out perfect. This proved to be the most popular Star Trek film made with the original crew. Leonard Nimoy again directs. Leonard Rosenman, film and TV composer provided a wonderful musical background. He also provided the score to Fantastic Voyage (1966) which may make him one of only two composers to provide music for both inner and outer space. Who else did this? Do you care?
In the BluRay edition this film looks like the theatrical release. Clear, colorful and beautifully lit you can have this film in your house with the same clarity as at the movies. Lucky you.
Lots of fun extra’s with a short retrospective on “Kirk’s Women” and an overall look at the entire trilogy are included. Best of all a commentary track is on hand featuring both Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner discussing the film in it’s entirety. Almost as good as watching the movie at home with both Kirk and Spock on hand to offer up info. For about $10 a true bargain. Look for a copy of Crocodile Dundee while you are at the store. It can be a true Fish Out of Water weekend.
Rated 4.0 out of 4.0 reasons to save the whales. I’m going to tell you anyway. It was Jerry Goldsmith.
The greatest year for Fish Out of Water movie fans was 1986. Hands down. No contest. End of story. That was the year that saw the release of Crocodile Dundee and Star Trek IV. Don’t argue with me about this. Don’t even think about it.
ST4TVH was the end of what ended up to be a trilogy started with Start Trek II The Wrath of Khan and continued in Star Trek III The Search for Spock. It didn’t start out as a trilogy but it ended up that way with lots of clever writing. Don’t watch IV without 1st watching II and III. Don’t worry about Star Trek The Motion Picture as it doesn’t have anything to do with these films.
In STIV the crew has to save the earth from destruction. Again. This time a giant flying cigar with a soccer ball hanging out of the bottom shows up and starts to threaten mankind. Seems it wants to communicate with whales. They are long since extinct. Unless the whales that don’t exist anymore can answer the calls for communication by the big cigar mankind is headed for the same end as the whales.
Kirk and crew including Spock, now alive again, must utilize time travel to return to earth in 1986 and bring back at least one humpback whale to the earth in the Star Trek time so he can answer the big cigar and send it away happy before the biggest and last temper tantrum ever witnessed by mankind occurs.
What happens when they get to SF in ‘86 makes for the most fun anyone can imagine occurring in a SciFi film. Brilliant, funny and exciting is the result. Everything in the film turned out perfect. This proved to be the most popular Star Trek film made with the original crew. Leonard Nimoy again directs. Leonard Rosenman, film and TV composer provided a wonderful musical background. He also provided the score to Fantastic Voyage (1966) which may make him one of only two composers to provide music for both inner and outer space. Who else did this? Do you care?
In the BluRay edition this film looks like the theatrical release. Clear, colorful and beautifully lit you can have this film in your house with the same clarity as at the movies. Lucky you.
Lots of fun extra’s with a short retrospective on “Kirk’s Women” and an overall look at the entire trilogy are included. Best of all a commentary track is on hand featuring both Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner discussing the film in it’s entirety. Almost as good as watching the movie at home with both Kirk and Spock on hand to offer up info. For about $10 a true bargain. Look for a copy of Crocodile Dundee while you are at the store. It can be a true Fish Out of Water weekend.
Rated 4.0 out of 4.0 reasons to save the whales. I’m going to tell you anyway. It was Jerry Goldsmith.
