After reaqding peoples responses I think everyone is right when they say the film did a great job of reinventing the series. It stayed loyal to the franchase but came up with a lot of new interesting stuff.
Having said all that though if it was a stand alone movie I actually think it was pretty poor. Spock annoyed the hell out of me and I didn't like how the characters kept slying their way to the positions they got. For example Scotty gets picked up off some ice planet and becomes chief engineer for a star ship? Also as already meantioned the "comedy" was a bit too slap stick.
The whole story was daft, forget the time travel bit it's the fact that the Romulans wanted revenge against Spock that bothered me. All Spock did was arrive too late to help them, it was nothing done on purpose and the deaths of the Romulans was down to natural causes not the Vulcans so why kill an entire race of people in revenge?
I thought Karl Urban as Bones did a great job
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