This movie was lame.

Rating: 2/10 (17 June 2011)

Massively over-hyped. People are completely desperate more movies now. JJ Abrams continues to be financially successful by turning out crap entertainment. I don't know how he convinces people that his work is any good. Super 8 is a straight remix of ET, Close Encounters, and the Goonies, with a little Cloverfield. The monster seems to be from the same neighborhood at least, all elbows.
At no point did I care about any of the characters or why anything was happening. The Spielbergian "homage" lens flare was so omnipresent as to be distracting. It would just be blue laser lines in many scenes. I suspect a lot of the lens flare was actually CGI. When the first two paragraphs of dialog are lazy exposition, you know the script is weak. The dad character was non-existent. The rest of the movie consisted of a lot of running around and yelling.