35th anniversary of "Star Trek III: Search for Spock" - 6/1

Any fans of "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock"?  How has it held up after 35 years?

While not a great film nor one of the finest films Star Trek has to offer, Search for Spock has proven itself to be a subdued but effective Star Trek outing.  It remains an important part of the Motion Picture trilogy (II, III and IV) for Star Trek and I think would be ranked in the upper half if you ranked all the Star Trek films.

Some consider it to be an underrated film and perhaps the best of the odd-numbered Trek films which are usually considered inferior to the even-numbered Trek films (a trend that stopped with films like Nemesis and Trek '09). 

Despite having a simplistic plot, the film largely works due to factors like Leonard Nimoy's directing, cast camaraderie and performances (Shatner being effective during his big dramatic moment for his son), James Horner's score, themes of friendship and sacrifice, and memorable sequences like the terrific "Stealing The Enterprise" scene (with Horner's score at its best) and the memorable destruction of the Enterprise (which had diminishing returns when done in films like Generations and Star Trek Beyond). 

Christopher Lloyd is fine as as the villain Kruge even if he doesn't come to the heights of Ricardo Montalban or Christopher Plummer, but he's better than Malcolm MacDowell and F. Murray Abraham. 

I like how the film ends nicely with Spock remembering Kirk's first name just as a new day rises on Vulcan scored to the Star Trek theme with "And the adventure continues......."