Maybe i'm a push-over but i loved this film.

Rating: 10/10 (21 July 2011)

I was expecting to be extremely disappointed because the trailers were so good! J.J Abraham's is my hero just because he is the first director to do trailers right! I HATE! HATE! HATE! when directors give every joke or action clip away in the previews. J.J Abraham's knew that, his movie was too good for that. Also i love the time frame he placed it in! using a Super 8 camera was genius! also its more believable that this could go on in the past and not the future. Now a days we have cell phones and over protective parents and it just would not have been believable. In my sixteen years (don't disregard my opinion because of my age, i'm no twilight die-hard) i have seen a number of movies with monsters and i feel that every single type of alien has been done and overrated and that his monster was just going to be another smiley alien with tentacles and super technology. But no, he took a different approach. I thought the fact that no one noticed the gigantic hole in the cemetery shed was a tad unrealistic, although the creature could have killed everyone who came across this. But it does make sense that the animal would live underground because where else would a huge alien hide? Also the actors were surprisingly good, thank god they chose kids with realistic looks and personalities. Over all i walked out of the movie happy!