52 George Takei Movies, Ranked Best to Worst

 Admiral James Kirk and the crew of his starship USS Enterprise are on a training excursion, when the routine trip turns into a risky mission as Kirk encounters old foe from 20th century Earth, Khan Noonien Singh, who has escaped from exile. Khan is after the top secret Project Genesis, a powerful terraforming device. Can Kirk succeed in thwarting Khan’s devious plan? 

The film is based on the true experiences of Marine hero Pfc. Guy Gabaldon. Orphaned at an early age and raised by a Japanese-American family, he becomes fluent in Japanese and joins the US military as a translator during the WWII. When fight erupts at Saipan, he remembers his foster family and convinces Japanese soldiers to surrender, thus saving many lives on both sides. 

A distressed call is sent out when an alien probe with unreadable signal enters the earth’s orbit, creating great havoc. Meanwhile, Admiral Kirk and his fugitive crew, living in exile in the planet of Vulcan, have decided to return to the earth. On receiving the warning, they realize that the signal matches the song of extinct humpback whales. To save the earth, they must now travel back in time

Bertha Jacoby, a widow who lost her son in World War II hates the Japanese. But while relocating to Tokyo, she meets Japanese Buddhist and businessman Koichi Asano on the ship. As her views change, she falls in love with Asano and plans to marry him much to the dismay of her daughter and son-in-law. 

Admiral James T. Kirk has managed to defeat his arch-nemesis Khan but Spock lost his life in the process. When it is discovered that Doctor Leonard McCoy is storing Spock’s katra in himself, Kirk decides to go to Genesis to restore Spock’s katra to his body even if it means going to war against the Klingons. 

When the ozone layer around the Klingon homeworld is destroyed, they are forced to initiate a peace process with the United Federation of Planets, their longstanding foe. The Federation quickly accepts the offer sends USS Enterprise-A to escort Chancellor Gorkon’s ship to the Earth. But on the way, Gorkon is killed by two men wearing Starfleet spacesuit. 

Trouble starts when a Starfleet monitoring station detects an alien entity moving towards Earth. Hidden in a massive cloud of energy, it not only destroys three starships, but also disintegrates the station. It now falls on recently promoted Admiral James T. Kirk and his crew to contain it. The crisis depends when navigator Lt. Ilia is abducted and replaced by an android look-like.    

Post-WWI, canner Zeb Kennedy and fishing boat captain Thor Storm plan a cannery in an Alaskan town, but Zeb’s attraction towards Thor’s fiancé, Bridie, causes a rift that keeps widening as Zeb’s greed for money threatens fishermen’s livelihood which infuriates Thor. Later, Thor strives for Alaskan statehood while ‘Czar Kennedy’ works to better his financial prospects. The hostilities end with Alaska attaining statehood.

This comedy film revolves around Vincent Chase, a famous movie star, who is back in business with his former agent, now a studio head. However, he agrees to work on the movie only on the condition that he is allowed to direct it as well. 

Defying his father, a young man, Troy, who is an aspiring writer, looks for a way to gain some meaningful experience in his life.  He soon takes a job with a well-known mentalist named Buck Howard, who is trying to revive his fading career.

Racer Mike Marsh loses his racing team co-driver Jim in a crash. Jim’s girlfriend Holly arrives too late and is filled with guilt. A new driver, Ned Arp joins the team and falls for the team owner’s sister Julie. Tensions rise when a third driver, Dan. arrives with his girlfriend, Gabrielle, but starts pursuing Holly and immediately antagonizes Mike. 

A cynical reporter, who is opposed to the Vietnam War, is assigned to cover the conflict. He tags along with a group of Green Berets. He soon begins to realize why the US got involved in the war.

In 1942, Lt. Cmdr. Jeff Conway’s submarine is on a mission to secretly photograph Japanese aircrafts and installations in Coral Sea through their periscope camera. The Japanese attack and damage their submarine, taking Conway and his crew to Japanese interrogation camp. But they take help of British and Australian prisoners, and plan their escape to reach the allies with critical intelligence information.

While on his annual fishing vacation in the Pacific, Jerry Lewis accidentally saves an infamous gangster who totally looks like him. When the gangster tells him about diamonds hidden around a hotel, Jerry tries to recover them but soon finds himself being chased by two rival gangster group as well as a hotel employee and a stewardess. To escape them and stay ahead, Jerry dons various disguises.

Despite his seniority and his exceptional work, Larry, a team leader at a company, is asked to leave his job due to his lack of a college degree. In order to give his life a new direction, he joins a college where he develops a crush on Mercedes, his new teacher. 

After being suspected of the murder of his wife, a TV talk-show host finds himself being pursued by both the police as well as a gang of criminals.

Zohan, an Israeli, wants to be a hairstylist; but works as a Special Agent. One day, after a fierce fight with his Palestinian enemy, Phantom, he fakes his own death and escapes to New York. He becomes a hair stylist at a salon owned by Dalia and later falls in love with her. But his past resurfaces and he now has to struggle to keep his new life.

Captain Kirk and his crew are on their mission to rescue the diplomats, Klingon and Romulan. Eventually, they realize that it was all a trick planned by Sybok in his quest to find God in the middle of the galaxy. 

Though billionaire Brendan Byers III has been classified as 4-F, he wishes to serve his country in World War II. So he recruits and ‘trains’ other 4-Fs, and heads with them to Europe. Masquerading as German General Eric Kesselring, he plans to order the German army to pull back. However, he soon realizes that impersonating a Nazi officer has its own hazards.  

Kubo, a one eyed kind boy, lives a modest life narrating stories to his village people and simultaneously tends to his ill mother. However, his peaceful life is disrupted when evil spirits from past appear and wreak havoc. For Kubo, the only way to defeat the evil, is to set out on a journey to find his dad’s unbreakable sword, a magic armour and helmet. 

This animated comedy film tells the story of Arnold who hits Harold using a baseball bat. Harold swears that he will beat him the next day to take revenge, and therefore, the next day, Arnold acts crazy to prevent getting beaten.

Fearing that her ailing father will be drafted into the Imperial Army to fight with the invading Huns, young Chinese maiden Fa Mulan disguises herself as a man to replace him. Learning about this, her ancestors send for a mighty stone dragon to protect her, but the disgraced small dragon Mushu ends up as her companion.

Two turkeys who are rivals must set aside their differences and team up in order to go back to the past. Their goal is to change history by taking the Turkeys off the Thanksgiving menu for good.