I had low expectations, but enjoyed it from beginning to end. Not a boring moment, and that's saying something for a 2 hour movie. Chris Pine evokes the original Captain Kirk but doesn't do a caricature. He is excellent, as is the entire cast. I didn't recognize Wynona Ryder in her brief role, and it would be great to see her in more features overall because she's so talented. Glad they wrote Leonard Nimoy in, in a fairly sizeable part. As the prequel, you get a bit of a backstory on all the original characters you know and love. At this showing, there were people from age six to 80 enjoying it. Lots of fun. They did it right.