The Goonies meet Alien vs. E.T.

Rating: 3/10 (20 November 2011)

... or was it The Goonies encounter a Third Kind Predator?
Whatever, J.J. Abrams really wanted Spielberg to be interested in this. Watching this is OK if you don't mind some live animated Disney picture, but really this is a gigantic budget for a very little movie. Red-scare B-movies from the 50s where much more thrilling, starting with Invaders from March if you're looking for a story told from the point of view of a kid.
Kudos to the marketing team who succeeded in erasing the fact that it was a kid movie in most of the promotional material, starting with the -mysterious if unoriginal- poster. So don't mix it up with Joel Schumacher's 8mm if you intend to select a movie for children)