Decent 7

Rating: 7/10 (26 June 2011)

Super 8 is a decent movie which is surprising for a J.J. Abrams film. The movie starts out as a homage to Spielberg's Stand By Me. The children are very good in the movie and they are the best part of the entire production. The interaction is well done and the acting is good. While Abrams tries, in the beginning, to be a "real" director, it works and the movie is a nice change of pace. When Abrams starts to become J.J. Abrams again, the movie fails. Once Abrams gets his hand on the action/sci-fi part of the movie, he makes another blow-up everything, Transformers-wanna-be. The last ten minutes blow-up the nice work that the beginning of the film had. It is ashame that Abrams has to revert back to being Abrams at the end of the picture.