I really liked
Super 8 a lot. So much so that I'm gonna watch it again tomorrow night before I have to return the movie back to the Library. I think the reason why the movie appealed to me as much as it did is because it really is a throwback to filmmaking of the 70's in style, tone and execution. It's a very subtle, almost vintage movie in a way. The movie is bascially
The Goonies meets
Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Now if the movie reminds you of
Encounters, there is a reason for that.
Steven Spielberg was attached as Producer and
JJ Abrams did an incredible job writting and directing this one.
There's a lot to like here. I'm a big fan of
Kyle Chandler from his days on
Friday Night Lights. The kids I didn't know at all with the exception of
Elle Fanning. All the other kids were completely new to me and they did a wonderful job. I like the A and B Story colliding into one another with the kids constantly trying to film their scenes for their Zombie flick when all hell breaks loose and the Monster is on the loose. By the end of the movie, you basically forget all about the Zombie movie because of a more pressing matter of trying to survive. But then just as you completely forget about it entirely, we get the payoff during the end credits and it's frickin' hilarious!!
If I do have one negative thing to say about
Super 8, it's the ending. It's way too short. We the viewer aren't given a lot of time to savor it. It felt rushed. We should have been given adequate time to take it all in with the amount of time we have invested in the movie. Just think of the ending to
Close Encounters. With that one we really got to experience it to the max and I was hoping we'd get the same thing here.
Having said that, I highly recommend this as a
Buy for sure.