It's possible that my expectations were a bit too high for this movie. However, given the quality of previous installments from the enterprise, I'm confident that they could have been met, or even exceeded. I found the story to be bland and predictable, the animation was above average and the 3-D effects were decent. My boys are 4 & 7 and they seemed to be underwhelmed as well. Basically, in our situation, this one could have waited for viewing on the small screen.