I found STID waaaay more entertaining than ST2 - ST2 was a better written film in terms of internal logic of the plot, there's no denying that but I was pretty bored watching it and after all the hype of a lot of people saying it was the best ST film, I was quite disappointed.

I think, to me, the Abrams' ST films are so entertaining, because they have very well written dialog between the principle characters. This is also why my favorite old crew ST movie is ST4 - like Abrams, I'm just not a big ST fan and I like these films, because they are less Star Treky. This, I think is the principle problem why the opinions on the new ST films vary so much, the hard core ST fans are disappointed, because it's not really Star Trek, where as people like me are happy for the very same reason :)

But I'm quite convinced that whatever the new ST films' undeniable faults, they are mostly script related and the films are really well directed.