Expected greatness, and I got it

Rating: 9/10 (10 December 2011)

When I told my mom about Super 8, I mentioned it was probably one of my favorite movies of the past several years. Then, I had her watch it. Her reaction was particularly funny, because she was thinking period drama, and Super 8 may be a period piece (1979) and it may be a drama (if a Science Fiction one), but it was certainly not what she meant...
Super 8 was a huge dose of nostalgia for the great movies I grew up with. Child actors who engage on a journey of excitement and growth - much like Goonies or ET.
In 1979 in a small town, there's a horrifying train crash. The train appears to have had something large and scary aboard! Our heroes are a young filmmaker and his friends who are working on a zombie movie.
Like all sci-fi films, a suspension of one's disbelief is necessary - the train crash scene, while exciting and done really well, was so unrealistic in cause and effect, that one has to view it through a child's eyes.
Super 8 has some action, several scares, impressive special effects, a little bit of pre-teen romance, and some fabulous one-liners.
Written and directed by J J Abrams and Produced by Stephen Spielberg, I was expecting greatness, and I was not disappointed.
Oh, and if you're wondering, my mom thought the movie was really good, too.