Once upon a time in the seventies, a science fiction movie arrived in theaters that redefined what movies could be. It was exciting, magical, overwhelming! That movie, of course, was Star Wars...then Paramount asked "What do we have that we can use to milk these sci-fi fans dry with?"
Thus Star Trek made its debut in film with Star Trek: The Motion Picture, a story so big, so massive, so filled with endless repetitive and slow paced minature effects shots, that it took the big screen to hold it all.
Now if they'd put anything else worthwhile in the movie it might be remembered more fondly, but what the heck, that's what Star Trek II is for.
Now join Ronin Fox and his friend DraCCu for this riffing of the biggest false start to a major film franchise we may ever see.
(This riff uses the "Director's Edition" of the film.)
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Good Work on turning this piece of Drivel, into something laughable!
The One, The Only, RVR II
One of the funniest riffs I've ever seen official or otherwise. Check it out, you'll thank me
This is the slowest movie ever created. One of the best lines is "Hurry up. The sun's gonna lap you."
There are a lot of really funny lines though. But the whole part where the Enterprise is finally leaving space dock is hilariously done. 4 stars!
This is one of the funniest riffs I've ever heard! Def deserves a place along side Mike and Co's riffs of 5, 6, and Generations!
Best part: The Cricket Noise
A great riff of a very long and dull film. The movie is more of the problem than the riff. The riff makes the movie way better, but the movie drags it down about half a notch due to the overwhelming dullness. Still a great riff and worth the money. If the movie was shorter it would get a full 5/5, but due to drag factor it gets a 4.5/5
-Rattrap007
Apart from some censorship bleeps (which I guess was done to keep the riff within the rating of the movie, plus me being anti censorship), this was a pretty good riff.
Although I do have to say that I've watched this movie many times and have come to appriciate it for what it is, though even I do think it's slow.
Still great work.
I gave this 4 stars because, well, I never finished it. I think the riffing is very good--a decent percentage of misses, but a very small percentage of slow riffs overall, but still it was not enough to get me through this friggin movie. I've watched it before, even! (Yes, the director's cut!) So while I don't think the riff CAUSED it to go slower, it certainly didn't make it viewable upon second watching. It's not even that the movie's BAD so much as it is UNNECESSARILY long. Like, seriously, I got 1:45 in, and here's the plot: 'Big thing's blowing up ships. Enterprise investigates. They get close to it. They get closer. They get EVEN CLOSER.' There y'go. Oh, and some character bits about new people, and none relating to the Enterprise crew I've grown to love from the series. Ouch.
So, yeah. Very solid. Every now and then I had a bit of trouble hearing DraCCu's lines, but beyond that pretty technically sound.
Favorite gag: the guy falling (I assume he's not REALLY falling) through space, 'Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!'
Michael T Bradley
Ice on Mars
And that doesn't just refer to the screen saver at the beginning.
Just a very entertaining riff, go buy it everyone. Unless you're really allergic to Shatner in which case even Ronin's abilities might not be able to save you.
I'd never actually seen this movie before but knew it's reputation, my housemate going into near hysterics when I asked if he had the director's edition copy should have been a warning sign.
However this is GREAT work, Ronin's obvious love of the series he's riffing on shines though and adds to the fun. Even though nothing seems to actually happen, there's no bad guy and the storyline is vague at best the riff actually keeps the movie progressing nicely and lets you bask it it's dullness while laughing along.
Man, I had forgotten how BORING this movie was.
Great iRiff. Nice balance of calling the movie out and riffing on the "action".
Recommended.