Lame

Rating: 3/10 (26 June 2012)

If I could submit a one-word review of Super 8, this would be the word I would use.
"Lame"
It sums it up perfectly.
The story, (much like the lame super-magnet the lame alien builds to attract its lame cubes), is a Frankenstein's monster-mish-mash of a number of (far superior), films that came before it.
E.T, Stand By Me, Goonies, Cloverfield all spring to mind when watching this.....and not in a good way. A poor man's attempt at recapturing the magic of each of the aforementioned movies. But instead of achieving this goal, all they ended up with was a bowl of unappealing, forgettable slop, that had only one taste....................................cheese.
The casting is lame. The acting is lame. The script is immensely lame. The alien is lame.
There's that word again....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
And I will not venture into the almost bottomless abyss that is the almost countless plot-holes/leaps-of-logic. Everybody in this film appears to have some sort of mental defect that precludes them from acting in a logical and believable fashion. Everybody.
After Cloverfield, (which I enjoyed immensely), this film disappoints in all departments and on all levels. Lucky it was selling for only 6 bucks on Amazon. I might be able to resell it for that on Ebay.........