William Shatner,
Leonard Nimoy,
DeForest Kelley,
James Doohan,
Ricardo Montalban
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is fondly regarded as being the closest in spirit to the 1966-69 TV series that spawned it. Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) escapes the tedium of a desk job to join Mr. ... read more
Directed by: Nicholas Meyer
Release Date: June 4, 1982
DVD Release Date: July 11, 2000
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December 19, 2011I used to look down upon Star Trek-thinking it was boring and too nerdy. I slowly got really interested in it though, probably because I've gotten older and can appreciate stuff that I thought was boring when I was a kid. I saw the 2009 film, and really enjoyed it. I was told it ... read more
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October 25, 2011fb712836066The Greatest Star Trek Film EVER. Ricardo Montalbon's Khan Noonien Singh returns from his appearance in one of the greatest episodes of the original Star Trek series (Season One's "Space Seed"). Despite the greatness of the film, however, the Eugenics that created the villain a... read more
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August 15, 2011By far the best film with the original crew. Somewhat slow to begin with, but once things get going, it's a non-stop ride of pure excitement. Impressive special effects for their time and it might be interesting to know that this was one of the first motion pictures to ever incor... read more
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May 11, 2011Now, I nearly was a diehard Star Trek fan. I haven't watched the show, only a few episodes with my dad when I was a kid, but that was it. I like what I saw, but I never was blown away by anything. Personally, I preferred Star Wars. For this sequel, it's kind of hard to judge beca... read more
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February 1, 2011Old genetically engineered adversary Khan reappears after being marooned on a desolate planet by captain Kirk 15 years previously to wreak bloody vengeance. The second big screen outing by Shatner and co was far more in the spirit of the original series than the slow moving but v... read more
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January 11, 2011So much better than the first Star Trek movie, this one is often considered the best Trek movie of all time, it's not my favourite, but it is a great sci-fi movie and as I said, a great improvement over the first.
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November 26, 2010though its not one of the worst movies ive ever seen i was never that interested in the old star trek series and this movie really wasnt that entertaining, (so far ive only seen nemesis, wrath of khan, and close encounter)
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June 22, 2010With the movie's title emphasising the Khan-Kirk rivalry it's easy to forget the prominent sub-plot that ran into the next movie as well - the terraforming Genesis device. This was a time when you could make an action sci-fi movie with a kick-ass bad guy without cutting down on t... read more
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June 6, 2010After the raving reviews I heard about this over the years, I finally had a look and ended up severely disappointed. The effects do not look good, even for 1982, look at Star Wars 6 from '83 instead. The pace is awfully slow and even Spock's death doesn't work as shock value anym... read more
Critic Reviews
May 3, 2009
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
May 19, 2008
Variety Staff, Variety
Star Trek II is a very satisfying space adventure, closer in spirit and format to the popular TV series than to its big-budget predecessor. Full Review
June 5, 2007
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
If only director Nicholas Meyer had grasped the implications of his tale more fully and enthusiastically, this might have become a classic piece of cornball SF poetry, but as it stands the tepid actin... Full Review
October 23, 2004
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Although I liked the special effects in the first movie, they were probably not the point; fans of the TV series wanted to see their favorite characters again, and Trek II understood that desire and a... Full Review
May 20, 2003
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Here comes a sequel that's worth its salt. The second Star Trek movie is swift, droll and adventurous, not to mention appealingly gadget-happy. It's everything the first one should have been and wasn't. Full Review
January 1, 2000
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
Star Trek II added hefty doses of action, adventure, and suspense, injecting life into a concept that had been left moribund by its first big-screen feature. Full Review
December 15, 2010
Charles Cassady, Common Sense Media
High-flying installment of the TV space saga. Full Review
March 24, 2009
Josh Larsen, LarsenOnFilm
If this is the supposed high point for the Star Trek movie series, it's still a low point for sci-fi. Full Review
July 5, 2008
Stefan Birgir Stefansson, sbs.is
khaaaaan!
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