One word discribes this movie: Epic.
They hit every mark with the characters if you're a big fan of classic Trek... Bones was spot on DeForest Kelly, Kirk shared the same "Fire all weapons! then when everything is dead or dieing, we'll ask a couple questions" attitude... the kinship between Bones, Kirk, and Spock was central to the whole movie coming together.
Don't harp some crap about the movie being a "Load of old shit"... regardless of if it's some old ideas rethought into new ideas or just new stuff altogether, it was enough to get the Enterprise out there and blow some shit up... which is all a decent episode of Trek needs to get moving. Watch a movie that is ALL story line and no relationship/character development (like shoot 'em up), then watch one that is all relationship/character development (Meet Joe Black)... then try to find a happy medium and see where it ends up. Any good trek series stays towards the relationship/character development end of the spectrum because that's the only part that stays on after each episode... since the movies are based on the series, the movies must follow suit as such.
My point is that Trek is, and should be, about the characters and how they face the challenges presented... As long as the challenges are reasonably believable in the Trek universe, I think it's solid gold. Nothing in the new movie was out of the realm of imagination because they started off with some timetravel and re-wrote some history, muddled some details, and had fun with it. They breathed some new life with the series and not the same ol' crap that Nemisis brought about.
Speaking of which, Picard's clone and some alien race of half-breed romulans with a big fucking ship and some radiation shit just doesn't cut it, sorry... that was just too far out of nowhere. And killing Data? Screw you Stuart Baird, and screw your hat and your dog too. That was like killing Scotty... fuck you man!