Forget all the Super hero movies (except Green Lantern). Forget the cheesy animated movies with Pandas. Forget the end of the world movies. I just saw a perfect summer movie like the ones that Spielberg used to make. "Super 8" is a Spielberg movie and a J.J. Abrams("Lost") movie. Think "E.T." but with more action and the alien is not as cute. It is well crafted. It has humor. It has flashbacks to the late 70's. It is very, very well done.
It is about some kids with great imaginations who are trying to make a zombie movie to enter into an area film festival. They while filmimg witness a horrific train crash. Then the story begins.
It is PG13 (the stoner dude says, "What the F-word!" once near the end.). It is a slice of life story when we used super 8 home movie cameras, cassette tapes, etc. There is a cool scene when the convenience store clerk is trying to explain, the new "Walkman" to an adult.
If you know anything about Steven Spielberg, he started into movies by making is own with home movie cameras when he was a kid. Much late he paid a young J.J. Abrams $300.00 to convert these movies into to digital. That's how they met.
Any who, This movie is worth your time.
I give it **** stars out of five.
Ps: Stay for the credits. The movie the kids were making is shown at the end.
2011 movie 28
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