Super 8 is a breath of fresh air in this crowded summer line up

Rating: Null/10 (11 July 2011)

Films like this constantly remind me why I continue to support film making and choose to believe there is something better to life than the numerous bland sequels destroying the public's taste for great cinema. In a summer full of pirates, Kung Fu fighting animals, and drunken band of friends, this movie sticks its head out of the ashes of poisoned American films and shows itself to be something to be notice and taken seriously. Abrams show the audience that there are some directors out there that take the movie making process serious and do not create films just for a quick buck. Super 8 is a part of a rare breed of movies that are being made not only to entertain the audience and gives us something captivating to watch, but also giving the audience a sense of connection to films. Its gives us a great story to connect with our minds, likable characters to connect to with our hearts, and great visuals to connect with what we see to give the viewer a well rounded movie. Not destroying our intelligence with just visuals and a 8 year old written story line. This movie has a cast of very strong children that act way beyond their age. They seem to work well with each other and the audience can tell when watching the film. Super 8 also feels to be something that would have been released in the 80's, but works quite well in 2011.The director did a great job on keeping a level of secretes to conceal the viewers knowledge of mysterious monster to increase viewing pleasure. Beside a lot of positives this movie has it does lack in the horror aspect that it was going for, but makes up in the mystery department and it keeps the pacing of the movie flowing and never loses a beat while the film is playing. There is also a action scene that shows a train crash and it was beautifully done and revs up the movies. The ending kind of lacked what I believed or was lead to believe on what was going to happen, but the movie as a whole was wonderful to watch.This movie has no re watch value in my opinion because it offers the viewer nothing new that we have not seen before, but creates a great mixture of past films dating from ET to the Close Encounters of the third Kind to Clover field. Abrams takes various elements from those films That we enjoyed and makes something that is full of entertainment and fun to watch in the summer full of lackluster films.