i have watched this movie and i can say that...its very newbie friendly...there are no continuation from the previous movie and the now conveniently retconned past(or more precisely future lol) events with the events that happened in this movie

The action are fast paced as you would expect of movies this age. some might argue that the captain nero of nadara could do more good by warning the romulans when he went back in time but you must remember that his sense in clouded when he saw the destruction of his home planet and the death of his wife....and also he is just a miner, not some charismatic admiral of a military organization, maybe he is not as smart as he looks:lol:.

i guess in the future movies we can see more of the adventures of young kirk and his crew. the future of the federations are also going to be different now that vulcan is gone.

i have watched most of the movies and a few of the series and its quite sad to see all of them retconned like that.

well at least now we might see new fans that like this fast paced action sequence-type movies. but i guess these new fans might not like the more science-technobable of the series.

i would give it a 9/10 for the newbie friendliness. definitely a movie that anyone can watch and enjoy