Slushy
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I think Star Trek IV: Save The Whales is the 2nd best in the series because it's so good written and it relies on the fundamental strength of ST - the characters. The dialogue crackles and no ST film is so chock-full of quotable lines.
McCoy is cynically hilarious. Nimoy deadpans to perfection; Shatner is at his charming best. The story's fun (after dealing with death in the previous two films, it was better to this route) and sets up the "fish out of water" material perfectly.
What's nice is that the humor derives out of these believable characters - humor always existed in the series, even if it got silly. Sometimes people imply the humor is contrived here and that's too much of a campfest - but it's not. That side of the characters is just more emphasized in IV plus I do love Nimoy's focus on environmental / wildlife preversation theme.
McCoy is cynically hilarious. Nimoy deadpans to perfection; Shatner is at his charming best. The story's fun (after dealing with death in the previous two films, it was better to this route) and sets up the "fish out of water" material perfectly.
What's nice is that the humor derives out of these believable characters - humor always existed in the series, even if it got silly. Sometimes people imply the humor is contrived here and that's too much of a campfest - but it's not. That side of the characters is just more emphasized in IV plus I do love Nimoy's focus on environmental / wildlife preversation theme.
