Kevin Smiths calls STAR TREK "phenomenal"

By Matt Holmes / June 25, 2011

I did enjoy Kevin Smith's small stint filling in as a film critic on Ebert & Roeper during the early days of Roger Ebert's illness, maybe there is a career for him there... going the opposite career direction of a Francois Truffaut.

Not only did he see and review The Dark Knight early but just last week he called Watchmen "fucking astounding" and now Smith, the uber geek, has seen the new Star Trek. This is what he said as a guest on KROQ€™s Kevin and Bean show (note it was obvious he couldn't actually come out and say he saw Star Trek), thanks to Trek Movie for the transcript...

It was phenomenal...The stars absolutely trek in this film. It is fantastic. Anybody who was worried doesn€™t need to be worried€“about this film I cannot talk about€It was in very capable hands. The director did a phenomenal job€“the director and his crew. Top notch cast and the guy that plays the lead is an instant star. That dude is going to be so famous. He is so wonderful. He picked up a role that I would say is pretty challenging for someone to step into the shoes of, because it is a role that has been played before many times by the same guy.

You can actually listen to the audio from the show HERE. Meanwhile, yesterday a fan created poster for the movie also spread across the web and got geeks very excited over a flick we haven't actually seen any officially released images from just yet, apart from those character posters HERE and HERE. Something must be coming soon, right? This fan made and very unofficial poster was created by Mark Storey, a U.K. artist whose other work you can see HERE. Love it...

source - /film