Just an homage to Spielberg

Rating: 2/10 (15 December 2011)

Think ET, Stand By Me (or Goonies) and Cloverfield in a bad mash-up. Kids' bikes galore, evil army men, misunderstood monster, saccharin dialog. I didn't expect this from Spielberg and Abrams. I think they phoned it in and let the PR Dept do all the heavy lifting. I knew I was in trouble when the train wreck went on and on and on after hitting a pickup truck. The only good parts were when the girl was rehearsing her part for the kid's movie; she was excellent. Oh, and I liked the attempt at not using all Hollywood brats, although the kid with braces looked like he had the bumper off a '65 Caddy in his mouth. It's a shame that Hollywood can't produce truly good movies anymore...regardless of budget. Skip this dreck.