Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan Movie Review

“I have hurt you. And I wish to go on…hurting you.” Ricardo Montalban picks up where he was left off by Captain Kirk in the 1967 TV episode, “Space Seed” (also available on video). Montalban's galaxy-chewing performance as the vengeful genetically engineered supervillain (“From Hell's heart I stab at thee,” he thunders) perhaps single-handedly rescued this fledgling cinematic franchise after the critical debacle of the first Star Trek movie. Spock “dies” (“Don't grieve, Admiral,” he gasps to Kirk. “It is logical”), but you can't keep a good Vulcan down. Galloping around the cosmos may be a game for the young, as Kirk observes, but there would be five more sequels with the original crew of the Enterprise. Cheers to Kirstie Alley, on board as bald-pated Vulcan.

1982 (PG) 113m/C William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Ricardo Montalban, DeForest Kelley, Nichelle Nichols, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Kirstie Alley, Merritt Butrick, Paul Winfield, Bibi Besch; D: Nicholas Meyer; W: Jack Sowards; C: Gayne Rescher; M: James Horner. VHS, Beta, LV, 8mm PAR