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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)

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Reviews Counted: 35 Fresh: 27  Rotten:8 Average Rating: 6.3/10
 
Consensus: Though it may be short on dazzling special effects, The Search for Spock is still a strong Star Trek installment, thanks to affecting performances by its iconic cast.
 

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Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins

Synopsis: In the third STAR TREK feature film, directed by Leonard Nimoy, Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) has defeated the genetically created genius Khan, but Spock (Nimoy) is dead and McCoy (DeForest Kelley) is suffering from a strange mental aberration. Defying Starfleet orders, Kirk takes the... In the third STAR TREK feature film, directed by Leonard Nimoy, Admiral Kirk (William Shatner) has defeated the genetically created genius Khan, but Spock (Nimoy) is dead and McCoy (DeForest Kelley) is suffering from a strange mental aberration. Defying Starfleet orders, Kirk takes the Enterprise to Genesis to recover the body of Spock. Wonders--and dangers--await the Enterprise crew on the strange new planet. [More]

Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy

Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei

Director: Leonard Nimoy
Composer: James Horner

DVD Info

Release:

Oct 10, 2003

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • 2-Disc Set

Disc One:

  • Anamorphic Widescreen

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
  • Dolby Digital 2.0 - English
  • Dolby Digital 2.0 - French

Additional Release Material:

  • Audio Commentary - 1. Leonard Nimoy - Director, Harve Bennett - Writer/Producer, Charles Correll - Director of Photography, Robin Curtis - Actress
  • Text Commentary - Michael Okuda, Denise Okuda - Co-Authors of THE STAR
  • TREK ENCYCLOPEDIA

Interactive Features:

  • Interactive Menus
  • Scene Selection

Disc Two:

  • Trailer - 1. Theatrical
  • Featurettes - 1. CAPTAINS LOG - Interviews with cast
  • 2. SPACE DOCKS & BIRDS OF PREY - Interviews with ILM model
  • creators
  • 3. SPEAKING KLINGON - A look at the Klingon language
  • 4. KLINGON & VULCAN COSTUMES
  • 5. TERRAFORMING & THE PRIME DIRECTIVE - With NASA scientist
  • Dr. Louis Friedman

Interactive Features:

  • Interactive Menus
  • Scene Selection

Text/Photo Galleries:

  • Storyboards
  • Photos

Reviews

 
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3/5

Not bad, but the series would boldly go to better places.

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05/19/08
Channel 4 Film
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Decent SFX, but a little more action wouldn't have gone amiss.

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02/09/06
Derek Adams
Time Out
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3/5

Contrived but involving.

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06/12/04
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall
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3/5

All the old Enterprise personnel carry the film, as it is more concerned with character re-animation than development.

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09/11/01
Nick Hilditch
BBC
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3.5/5

christopher lloyd!

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07/05/08
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
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4/5

No review available.

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12/11/07
John A. Nesbit
Old School Reviews
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2.5/4

It's reasonably entertaining fare for non-fans.

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06/04/07
TV Guide's Movie Guide
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This 1984 film's few and unimpressive special effects evidently qualify it as science fiction, but the genre it really belongs to is the male weepie: there hasn't been a gooier buddy romance on the screen since Joe Buck took Ratso Rizzo to Miami.

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06/04/07
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
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3/4

One of the best of the series.

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05/26/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
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It has the physique and will of a bold adventurer, but it's afflicted with acute brain-stem damage. Mixed in among some of Trekdom's best moments are some of the canon's sloppiest choices...

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04/08/06
Mark Bourne
DVDJournal.com
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May be the unappreciated middle child of the Trek franchise, but it's still one of better and more indispensable episodes.

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02/11/06
Steven D. Greydanus
Decent Films Guide
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2/5

No review available.

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06/19/05
Emanuel Levy
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4/5

No review available.

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11/04/04
Randy Shulman
Metro Weekly (Washington, DC)
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3/4

This is a good but not great Star Trek movie, a sort of compromise between the first two.

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10/23/04
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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4/5

No review available.

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04/06/04
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
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3/5

No review available.

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01/29/04
Spence D.
IGN Movies
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Offers a thiought-provoking treatment of the mind-body problem.

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07/23/03
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
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07/01/03
Jeffrey Westhoff
Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)
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3/5

No review available.

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06/19/03
Walter Chaw
Film Freak Central
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3/5

The humanity of the Star Trek series, unexpected as it is in a sci-fi setting, remains the series' best feature.

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05/20/03
Janet Maslin
New York Times
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