Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

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To save Earth from an alien probe, Kirk and his crew go back in time to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it, humpback whales (imdb)

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Directed By: Leonard Nimoy

Written By: Leonard Nimoy, Gene Roddenberry, Nicholas Meyer, Harve Bennett

Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, George Takei, Jane Wyatt, Michael Berryman, Walter Koenig, DeForest Kelley, Catherine Hicks, Nichelle Nichols, James Doohan, Mark Lenard, Vijay Amritraj

Genres: Comedy, Sci-fi, Action, Adventure

Franchise: Star Trek

AKA: Star Trek 4

Country: USA

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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home belongs to 38 collections

1. Time Travel (collaborative: moderated by mpowell - 42 stars)

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Stars	User	Rating
5	Mentaculus	77 _65th
Star Trek goes slapstick. And for my money, almost nothing's funnier than Chekov asking for the location of nuclear wessels by The Embarcadero during a Cold War. Each actor embraces the lunacy - Spock finding out' he likes Italian food, the crew replaying The Three Stooges' Dizzy Doctors - but that's why this works in a way more than the other films. Each person is much less an actor and so much more a character, it doesn't matter the scenario. There Be Whales Here makes sense.
3	BillyShears	85 _86th
Gentleman, set phasers to fun. A total joy of a movie, silly hippy nonsense script blended with those best episodes of Star Trek where they end up on Earth. Only a double dumb ass wouldn’t enjoy this.
2	djross	45 _34th
The most charming and amusing entry in the series. The narrative may be utterly ridiculous, but it wisely avoids melodrama and refreshingly stays away from the stock standard space battle and other tired conventions. The environmental agenda becomes rather confused, with a couple of whales agreeing, apparently, to be deposited by humans into a future in which all their kind have been killed at the hand of man, and agreeing to do so for the sake of man, but who's quibbling? "Ah, the giants."
2	AnnMovie	85 _45th
Pretty fun & well done. It takes a little while to get into the story, & if you don't know the background of Star Trek or these particular characters, it might take even longer, but I still think you'd be able to enjoy the majority of the story: traveling back 300 years to the 1980's to save two humpback whales & return them to the future. While, of course, the special effects aren't what we're now accustom to, & certain areas are a bit slow, on the whole the heart & humor well make up for it!
2	somnivore	83 _46th
Where do you keep your nuclear wessels?
2	letskillrobots	21 _61st
Mom didn't like this movie because Spock cussed.
2	glumpy_99	80 _60th
Outside of the somewhat unusual premise, a standard, typically enjoyable series entry, which does surprisingly little with the intriguing notion of Kirk & Co. interacting with the "real world"; one could imagine this premise playing out more sharply in TV format, with a final act that feels like a lot of extraneous padding. For those who usually take their Treks piously seriously, the change in tone is no doubt welcome, its just not the revolutionary change in tone that its reputation suggests.
2	RandallODim	83 _67th
Kirk and Spock are an old married couple and no one will ever convince me otherwise ever again.
1	eveelun	65 _30th
It's pretty silly - the plot is ridiculous even for Star Trek. But if you find the notion of classic Star Trek characters dealing with 1980s San Francisco funny (which I did), it's not too bad.
1	doctor7	69 _50th
Decent enough if you're a Star Trek fan. I was surprised that, even though it takes place in the 80's, it's not terribly and horribly dated. In fact there's only really one scene that has an "80's punk" (and that scene is actually pretty funny). I'd say that this, beyond anything other, is the funniest Star Trek film. But, while entertaining, I don't watch Star Trek for funny gags. It's an alright Star Trek film but unless you're a fan you can pass on it.
1	TheDenizen	30 _11th
Really, really dumb. Captain Kirk travels back through time to talk with humpback whales, I shit you not.
1	lrampartl	39 _15th
A few amusing moments here and there, but this was pretty lame. Note: I hate Star Trek, so take that into account.
1	gogokain	75 _80th
No, the summary is not a joke.
1	Matthias99	85 _41st
Decent. Has some fun, silly moments.
1	KasperL	50 _30th
The plot is incomparably daft, and this is by no means a good film. I can definitely understand why some fans love this, however. It's a nice change of pace where we get to spend a rather fun time with the crew (and this is where I realized how much I, unlike in ST:NG, really like the characters as well as the actors playing them, Kelley as Bones being my favorite). While some of the jokes work, all the silliness gets a bit tiresome, though.
1	deproduction	77 _41st
Cheesey like the rest, but this is probably the most likeable star-trek film.
1	Astfgl	65 _45th
Good Star Trek movie, but only because it had the courage not to take itself too seriously.
1	Barthalen	70 _55th
Can't really be called 'good' but it has an undeniably cheesy charm.
1	purgatos	71 _52nd
Good fun, feels more like the original series than any of the other films do.
1	Mechatigger	57 _26th
Nimoy goes to the opposite extreme from the self-serious _Star Trek III_ with this comic adventure. Entertaining, but too silly.
1	spleen	85 _84th
The best of the series, this one still reeks of cheese, but then again doesn't everything involving Shatner anyway. For the few that haven't seen it, one word. Whales. Ok. Yes, whales. Just go with it. Cripes.
1	Okkervil	78 _79th
The film with the most outlandish, madcap, frankly fucking looney plot ever divised. Probably the only Trek film that has managed to balance being lighthearted and funny with Trek's inherent campness, and it does it very well after the much darker previous two movies. That said when Nimoy and Roddenberry wrote the plot what were they smoking! Time Travel plus Humpback Whales = Star Trek! Worth watching just for the storyline if nothing else.
1	Bagger	75 _63rd
I always felt this was two or three steps away from being an Eddie Murphy vehicle. But one of the good ones. If you watch it with that in mind, you will have a great time.
1	Merv_Taylor	91 _80th
Double Dumb Ass
1	VengefulKBM	80 _75th
A classic, light-hearted Trek romp with some of the most quotable lines in sci-fi movie history. Easily the most joyful of the Star Trek movies, and there's definitely something to be said for that. Very rewatchable.
1	backwardsuit	72 _56th
The plot is a series of varied & increasingly silly situations but it has a nice story about learning from past mistakes, regaining your self, ecology & transporting humpback whales from 80s San Francisco into the future to sing to a world-destroying space monolith. Believe it or not it's all a bit cheesy. By the time we get to the hospital scene it's turned into a complete comedy show but hey, I had a jolly time. So many goofy scenarios & executed with perfectly light touch.

Average Percentile 53.85% from 2884 Ratings