Super Hype

Rating: 6/10 (23 June 2011)

After being inundated with favorable reviews and comparison to E.T. and some of Spielberg's early work, I thought I was going to see a great movie.
This movie is mediocre. Film students will love it because, technically, it is correct and so much was done right, but from a viewer perspective, this is not a great movie.
What is this movie? Feels like Goonies, meets E.T and with a brief Close Encounter.
This is a good movie, but you leave the theater feeling that you didn't get the full story. Not only that, but more character development was needed.
This movie sucked. Not because it is bad. But because the marketing behind it made it greater than it was.
If you have not seen this, you can wait for Netflix.