So what's so great about the Wrath of Khan? Montaban's hair? It's just as dated and cornball as other Trek films, isn't it?
BLASPHEMY!!!
Forgive him, brothers, for he knows not what he says...
Aw, the heck with it - it IS Fistful, after all!
Seriously - for a gripping sci-fi action movie, with a GREAT villain and real, touching moments of humanity, it's hard to do better than 'Wrath Of Khan'. Non-Trek fans might like STIV better - 'Save The Whales' - due to more of a real-world, humorous approach, and I consider that one a fairly-close second for best Trek movie (followed VERY closely by STVIII, 'First Contact', which was the first solely-Next-Gen Trek movie, the one with the Borg - another action-oriented movie), but for my money, STII is the best of the bunch.
AND it has Ricardo Montalban, with his long flowing mane and supposedly-rubber chest (both Montalban and director Nicholas Meyer state that it was Montalban's actual chest muscles - Montalban was apparently a pretty buff guy), chewing on the scenery and channelling Captain Ahab in magnificent style.
Have not been able to go see the new movie myself, yet - working nights through Tuesday AM, dagnabbit, and got plenty to do Tues/Wed/Thurs to get the townhouse ready to go on the market before I go back to work days over NEXT weekend, so I almost certainly won't be seeing it until the weekend of the 22nd. To make up for it, I'm going to do my best to go see it in IMAX that weekend.