Jun. 22, 2011 at 3:09pm
Super 8 will probably end up being the kids banded together against a common enemy movie of this generation. And that’s cool. It was pretty good. Not great, but nothing as particularly bad either. The movie starts pretty much with a funeral for a young boy’s mother. It is the summer of 1979. We then follow the young boy and his 4 other friends as they attempt to film a zombie movie. They also manage to convince a young girl to join the cast. As they film at a train station, an air force train speeds by, but is derailed by a man who drives onto the track and collides with it. In the confusion of the crash, the young boy sees something escape the wreckage. That’s when things start getting weird. All the dogs in the town run off into the surround counties, electrical items go missing, and some people start going missing. The kids find themselves wrapped up in the center of the strange supernatural thriller. The movie was entertaining. In typical J.J. Abhrams fashion, we don’t see the monster until much later in the film, with only flashes and blurry reflections to give us any idea of what the kids are dealing with. There is a good sense of tension because of this. And while there are some cheesy moments between the ever distant father and the young boy, there was fairly decent acting all around. In the end, there really isn’t anything to rave about from the movie. It was good all around. My favorite part was probably the movies ability to make you really feel like it was 1979. At the same time, it’s hard to write a review about a movie that was just pretty good. There isn’t anything to rip apart yet at the same time, I can’t really go on at length about anything, either. I give the movie a solid 4 exploding trains out of 5.

Super 8 will probably end up being the kids banded together against a common enemy movie of this generation. And that’s cool. It was pretty good. Not great, but nothing as particularly bad either. The movie starts pretty much with a funeral for a young boy’s mother. It is the summer of 1979. We then follow the young boy and his 4 other friends as they attempt to film a zombie movie. They also manage to convince a young girl to join the cast. As they film at a train station, an air force train speeds by, but is derailed by a man who drives onto the track and collides with it. In the confusion of the crash, the young boy sees something escape the wreckage. That’s when things start getting weird. All the dogs in the town run off into the surround counties, electrical items go missing, and some people start going missing. The kids find themselves wrapped up in the center of the strange supernatural thriller.
The movie was entertaining. In typical J.J. Abhrams fashion, we don’t see the monster until much later in the film, with only flashes and blurry reflections to give us any idea of what the kids are dealing with. There is a good sense of tension because of this. And while there are some cheesy moments between the ever distant father and the young boy, there was fairly decent acting all around.
In the end, there really isn’t anything to rave about from the movie. It was good all around. My favorite part was probably the movies ability to make you really feel like it was 1979. At the same time, it’s hard to write a review about a movie that was just pretty good. There isn’t anything to rip apart yet at the same time, I can’t really go on at length about anything, either.
I give the movie a solid 4 exploding trains out of 5.