The new Star Trek film launches worldwide tomorrow - but after all the hype, the sneak trailers, the huge viral campaign across the Internet, is it actually any good? We've scanned all available channels of the web and bring you a round up of reviews from mainstream, fan and other sites...

The Mainstream...

• Boston Herald: "Rescued from the dreaded Neutral Zone, Star Trek, a film directed by fanboy-auteur J.J. Abrams, rewards the loyal followers of those who boldly went where no one had gone before... While this new, retro Star Trek features that loathesome Cloverfield-style shaky-cam, it is a worthy reincarnation of the original series with a cast of talented young actors, who channel those who preceded them in their roles in ways that are funny and even touching."

• Chicago Tribune: "After X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which exists primarily for its 7-Eleven Slurpee tie-in, the world needed a better franchise product, one that works with an audience rather than simply working it over. Here it is. The new Star Trek motion picture, not to be confused with Star Trek -- the Motion Picture (1979), seeks to extend a lucrative brand with a young demographic. But it's a real movie -- breathlessly paced bordering on manic, but propulsively entertaining...The film may not be memorable science fiction, but it's an engaging pop diversion."

• Best of Cincinnati CityBeat: "This prequel races right to the heart of that question, defining each and every one of these loveable characters in deft strokes. Spock (Zachary Quinto), the half human, half Vulcan child, becomes a willful and logical perfectionist - ever-conflicted but always seeking the truth. Bones (Karl Urban) is just a doctor, dammit, and he’s constantly letting us know it as only he can."

• Entertainment Weekly: ""Sci-fi origin stories, at least those launched decades after the stories themselves, tend to be disappointing. They're usually more work than play... But in Star Trek, the clever and infectious reboot of the amazingly enduring sci-fi classic, director 
 J.J. Abrams crafts an origin myth that avoids any hint of the origin doldrums. That's because he rewires us back into the original Star Trek's primal appeal."

• Globe and Mail: "There's something about the swinging new Star Trek movie that suggests that director J.J. Abrams time-warped back to 1966, the year of his birth and the launch of the first Star Trek television series, to find the mojo to make the venerable space-adventure franchise fresh again. Unlike the current wave of grim "reboots" of film franchises from Batman to Bond, Abrams has shrugged off gravity to have some fun... Though there are plenty of references to past television episodes and movies, this film never feels burdened by insider-knowledge. Finally - a Star Trek movie that can be followed by humans without a working knowledge of Klingon."

• The Los Angeles Times: "It is pleasant to report that though it's not perfect, the reconstituted Star Trek is successful enough for everyone to breathe a sigh of relief. Though it has its over-caffeinated aspects and its missteps, this Star Trek has in general bridged the gap between the old and the new with alacrity and purpose... Given the differences between the Star Trek ethos created by Gene Roddenberry and the one that Abrams and company represent, what's surprising is not that the new film sometimes misses but rather how many hits there actually are."

• MSNBC: "Star Trek is popcorn perfection, everything you want from a summer movie, a reboot or a TV remake... As a summer blockbuster, it delivers on pyrotechnics, fist-clenching excitement and three-dimensional characters. As a reboot of a popular franchise, it takes us back to square one in a way that feels both familiar and fresh. (As opposed to, say, the muddled X-Men Origins: Wolverine.) And as a remake of a TV show, it captures the essence of the original while allowing the big-screen version to expand in new and thrilling directions.

• Newsweek: "The latest film version of Star Trek... is more brawn than brain, and it largely jettisons complicated ethical conundrums in favor of action sequences and special effects... All the character quirks are there, and the Enterprise is rendered more realistically than ever, but what's missing are the typically progressive politics and moral dilemmas that made the original Trek more than a space-age adventure show and helped earn it legions of ardent fans."

• Rolling Stone:"Summer officially hits warp speed with Star Trek, a burst of pure filmmaking exhilaration that manages to pay homage to the classic 1960s TV series and still boldly go where no man, William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy included, has gone before. I couldn't be more surprised... Star Trek creates an alternate universe you want to get lost in. It's an irresistible invitation for fun. What more can you ask of a summer movie?"

• The Times: "J. J. Abrams’s thriller Star Trek is the first tent-pole film that has made me sob with pure pleasure. The 42-year-old boldly goes where no other Star Trek director in his right mind has gone before. He goes backwards. To those heady days when James Tiberius Kirk was a teenage rebel who styled himself on James Dean, and when the young Spock was being bullied at school... the animal magic of Abrams’s film lies in the old-school stitching. Classic Trek punchlines and catchphrases (“I’m giving her all she’s got”) are delivered tongue-in-cheek, mostly in the middle of a catastrophe."

• Washington Post: "Lord of Star Trek and its many spinoffs, we thank thee for a movie that, against all odds, has miraculously resurrected a wheezing but beloved and still-relevant franchise... This installment has achieved a nearly impossible hat trick. It's a movie that is exegetically correct enough to appease the most hard-core buffs, while opening up the final frontier to a whole new generation of fans who have yet to appreciate Star Trek's ineffable combination of sci-fi action, campy humor and yin-yang philosophical tussle between logic and emotion."

• Wired: "The new Star Trek movie races through a suck-your-face-back wind tunnel of time travel, ego clashes, black holes, hot Orion girls and deep, dark villainy as director J.J. Abrams launches the next generation of Starfleet adventures... Together, they've crafted a 21st-century Star Trek every bit as sleek and shiny as the new Enterprise itself."

• USA Today: "Unlike previous incarnations, there are no weighty scenarios or moral quandaries in this refashioning of Star Trek. It's an energetic sci-fi extravaganza, with spectacular action sequences and nifty visuals... Clearly aimed at broader audiences than die-hard fans, it boldly goes a long way where previous Star Treks haven't gone before."

• Variety: "Blasting onto the screen at warp speed and remaining there for two hours, the new and improved “Star Trek” will transport fans to sci-fi nirvana. Faithful enough to the spirit and key particulars of Gene Roddenberry’s original conception to keep its torchbearers happy but, more crucially, exciting on its own terms in a way that makes familiarity with the franchise irrelevant, J.J. Abrams’ smart and breathless space adventure feels like a summer blockbuster that just couldn’t stay in the box another month. Paramount won’t need any economic stimulus package with all the money it’ll rake in with this one globally, and a follow-up won’t arrive soon enough."

The Fans...

• Free Enterprise Producer/writer Mark Altman (via TrekMovie.com): "For those who value continuity, don’t buy the spin – while the new timeline definitely can explain away some inconsistencies with the established mythology, it certainly doesn’t erase all of them so it’s up to you to either accept it…or not... Is Star Trek a great movie? No. But it is a good one and a great set-up for a great Trek movie with the entire crew in place and now ready for a piece of the action. When the inevitable sequel is up and running, hopefully we can dispense with time travel, and instead embrace a little more philosophical subtext, metaphor, character development and a lot more going…boldly."

• Quint at Aint It Cool News: "Star Trek isn't just a successful reboot, but a genuinely fun and exciting science fiction action adventure. My biggest complaint is that it feels like they just got started up when the film ended. I want more! I want to see the further adventures of Captain James T. Kirk and his crew aboard the USS Enterprise."

• Neil Miller, Film School Rejects: "If there is one thing Star Trek always got right in the old days - and we're talking The Original Series and the first two films, of which I'm a big fan - it was a commitment to character and story above all else. This movie has that same commitment, but it is muted by an intense sensory experience. This may be a small problem for some fans, but I can assure you that when you get that first gorgeous shot of the USS Enterprise or you are thrust into the midst of a wild space battle, you won't mind one bit."

• Jeff Bond of Geek Monthly Magazine (via TrekMovie.com): "Abrams has dared to... recast and re-imagine Spock, and the rest of the crew of the original U.S.S. Enterprise, and show us how they wound up as the finest crew in Starfleet... I say that J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek for the most part works fantastically well. And the key is the impossible task of starting from ground zero with these iconic characters and daring to recast and revive them while acknowledging - but not enslaving them to - the franchise’s beloved "canon."... [Zachary] Quinto actually anchors the film and keeps an adventure that might easily have become pandering and silly rooted firmly in the kind of fascinating character drama that marked the best of the original series."

• Anthony Pascale, TrekMovie.com: "It was only a few years ago that the Star Trek franchise was on life-support and things were not looking good for the future. The last two films were disappointments, with the 2002 outing of Nemesis being the first actual bomb of the ten film series going back to 1979... after seeing the finished product, in short, that is exactly what they have done. Star Trek is amazing... I believe that JJ Abrams and his team have done what they set out to do, which is the seemingly impossible task of creating a ‘realer’, more accessible and more action-oriented Star Trek for a new generation - while at the same time honouring the Star Trek that has come before it."

• Wil Wheaton (Star Trek: The Next Generation actor, who played Wesley Crusher): "Speaking both as a member of the Star Trek family, and as a fan of what we do, I can tell you that it is f****** incredible. As I said on Twitter: Star Trek has been reborn, and it is SPECTACULAR. The story is such a perfect Star Trek story, the cast is pitch-perfect, the visuals are brilliant, and the sound design will blow your mind."

So -- while there's clearly some dissent in the ranks, oeverall reaction to J.J. Abrams take on the mythos seems at this point generally positive, with the Scotsman wryly reporting that the film has come in for glowing praise from an unlikely source - two Klingon generals. In a (sub-titled) video in the Klingon language posted on YouTube, generals Karloth and Sol'rac of the Imperial Klingon Expeditionary Forces -- actually two British fans of the franchise from Weston-Super-Mare and Luton -- laud the movie's special effects and recommend it to "Klingons everywhere as well as Earthlings"...

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