A Nice, old fashioned movie

Rating: 8/10 (11 August 2011)

I was pleasantly surprised with "Super 8." Mainly because it is not a remake, or sequel, and even if it is on familiar turf, approaches its subject in an old fashioned and humorous way.
Flick follows some teenage kids who are attempting too make a movie with their "super 8" camera in the 70's, only too witness a train crash and get a climse off the mysterious creature that was on-board. Trying too keep quiet about this thing, soon strange stuff starts happening around the whole town, so they get caught up in events even further.
Though there is action and special effects, the film is more mysterious and likes keeping things hidden in the dark, working better as a drama. What goes on between the characters in normal everyday life is focused on just as much as the weird stuff that's happening, making it a movie that works on many levels, and it was nice too see a reasonably different alien movie looked at through the eyes off the kids over the adults for a change. Something I can't really think off having been done successfully in years.
The "Aliens" motives are questionable. One minute its killing people, the next it's tying them up, then later just looking at them, then letting them go. Still, a nice film, that'll have you sitting back down during the credits, and not too wait for some teaser at the end, but too see another short but hilarious movie.