Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

After the emotional third film, Star Trek IV was a breath of fresh air. Beating all the previous Trek films in tems of profit, cinema audiences lapped up the humour and lightness of the fourth film.

Forced to go back in time to retrieve a pair of humpbacked whales in order to repopulate the species in the 23rd Century, Kirk and crew find themselves on a planet they don't understand: Earth, circa 1986.

Of all the Star Trek films, this one shows it's age the most. The setting was current at the time the film was made, but watching the film today makes it perhaps a little easier to relate to the crew's confusion with the Earth of the mid-eighties.

That's not to say the film has aged badly. It comes from a time when comedies were big business in Hollywood, and it was a conscious decision to make the fourth film more light hearted. At one point, Eddie Murphy was looking for a new film to cement his popularity after Beverly Hills Cop, and was mooted for the role of Dr Gillian Taylor. Presumably, the character would have been male, and not been called Gillian.

Record 857 - film - Last update 28 Jul 2007, 19:49:46

Entry written by: DiscoBurgess

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