I saw it today and really enjoyed it, as other people have said it was a great romp. There was the odd clunky moment, where big chunks of plot development were executed in milliseconds, rather than the minutes you might have expected. They did certainly keep things moving along at a pace though.

I saw it at the IMAX screen at Waterloo, they first time I've ever seen a "normal" film at an IMAX cinema. I have to say I was very impressed, it is a great way to see a film.

I have to agree about Chekov, he was just a little too jokey for my liking, especially with the level of humour other characters were injecting into the film. I expected Simon Pegg as Scotty to be car-crash-watch-between-your-fingers-cringe-making, but it worked out ok in the end. He was a little over the top, but still enjoyable.

I've been avoiding going to the cinema for the last few years, the last film I saw was Dark Knight and I can't remember the film I saw in the cinema before that. After seeing ST, I've realised why I have been avoiding the cinema.

The reason was poor CGI, by poor I mean the over use of CGI that just wasn't quite good enough to be seamless. I saw too many films where I spent the whole film spotting the joins between the CGI and the live action.

When we got to the end credits of ST I realised that I hadn't spotted a single join, all the CGI was completely seamless. Is this typically for films now or is ST just particularly well done ? I notice that ILM were in charge of effects, but then some of the most annoying CGI that I saw before stopping going to the cinema came from them...

I guess it helps because they didn't have any crowd scenes to deal with. Those where the places in previous films where the CGI has been particularly jarring for me.