Clichéd, disappointing

Rating: 3/10 (27 June 2013)

Clearly there's a market for this stuff, but I thought the kids making a movie captured pretty well how I felt about the whole thing... clichéd plot, contrived action sequences and some pretty clunky dialog. I agree there was some good work by Fanning, but that hardly saves it. Fortunately I was able to multitask while I watched, so it wasn't a complete loss.
The fact that Abrams wrote and directed is interesting... I'm a big Fringe fan, and you can certainly see shades of that here, but Super 8 totally lacks the great characters, dialog and humor and the ability to make you willingly suspend disbelief for the sake of the story.