So that's how it feels like to be 12 again.

Rating: 9/10 (26 June 2011)

Brevity is the soul of wit so I'll be brief. Super 8 isn't a very original piece. It feels like composite of Spielberg's early works with liberal serving of 'The Goonies' with a side of 'Cloverfield'. Plot is pretty standard family problems, story told many times before. But what this film does is work. Acting is solid, characters believable, action exciting, jokes funny. This movie made me smile all the way home. J.J. Abrams took all the parts that make the film "Spielbergian" and made it own. Entertainment of the highest sort. If you're after that elusive feeling you had when watching 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' that's your best choice.