Barf. Over-aggrandized Kiddie Flick. Babies Might Like It.

Rating: 6/10 (15 June 2012)

to quote the often scathing wisdom of gay males, "oh pleeeeeease honey". God. i can't believe anyone over the age of ten even liked this baby brain rot.
i actually thought this movie would have some adult appeal, but- OH! how naive! instead the target audience was kids. it was just a attempt by Speilburger to recapture his 1980's kiddie audience by rehashing formulas from his dumbed down family and kiddie flicks like 'E.T.' and 'Goonies'. and oh God was this stuff so used up and totally familiar.
it was all here. idealized concepts of youth and suburban childhood innocence, a whole bunch of "Goonie" like, precocious, in your face, loud mouthed kids all talking excitedly and at once like on a unruly school bus, and of course a poor, supposedly hapless alien who wants to "go home". talk about obvious and familiar. this whole kid flick had the feel of somebody shoving old,stale hostess cupcakes down kid's throats.
and even though you were supposed to sympathize with the alien, he was just plain creepy and scary. i mean if it was supposed to be so advanced and civilized enough to build a spacecraft on it's own, why did it eat feed on people and bite them in half and stuff? a truly advanced and civilized species would probably have a higher definition of "intelligent life" than this. i didn't feel sorry for the alien monster one bit. i thought he was a menace to the known universe and should have been destroyed to assure safety for the common good.
the train wreck at the beginning was okay and lead the viewer to believe the film would unravel some clever, unexpected mystery. well, it was unexpected. because the beginning was okay i wasn't expecting such a hokey premise and a bunch of re-used formulas from the 1980's. i felt actually cheated when i discovered how predictable the ideas that came next were. seen that, done that. seen it done much better too.
the reason why they called this movie 'Super 8' was because it was a over blown entertainment for eight year olds. i can't imagine anyone over the age of eight being patient with any of this.
the plot to this stinker wouldn't even justify a half hour SyFy television show. if they knew what they were doing, they would have snuffed the monster right away before he ate anybody and solved a lot of needless carnage and destruction. then this nonsense would have ended promptly and spared audiences their precious brain cells. this rot has got to be worse for your brain than smoking drugs or drinking alcohol.