Star Trek

Now this is how you reboot a franchise! The movie starts off with a bang and moves along at breathless pace throughout. The plot is about Kirk and Spock's time at the Starfleet academy and their first posting on the Enterprise in a totally new time-line.
The special effects are top notch and the movie is chock full of edge of the seat moments, not to mention quite a bit of comic relief between all the action.
This is a fantastic movie by JJ Abrams that breathes new life into the Star Trek franchise, its a must-see for fans as well as non fans alike.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

You would think that Hollywood had learned how to adapt comic books into movies for audiences aged six and up after seeing the recent Batman and Iron Man movies. Sadly, after seeing this movie you realize how good those movies were and how big the margin of error can be.
We have almost everyone flying through the air, Kestrel's vanishing effect is comparable to a 70s B-movie compared to Nightcrawler in the earlier X-Men movies and some of the action scenes are just lame (e.g. Kestrel vs. Sabretooth).
To add the long list of follies we have Wolverine posing, posturing & shouting throughout the movie for what are presumably the emotional / character building scenes. However these over the top sequences stick out like rabbit teeth on an anteater.