Super 8 (2011)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2011
	Director: J.J. Abrams (Star Trek)
	Actors: Elle Fanning (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button), AJ Michalka (The Lovely Bones), Kyle Chandler (King Kong)
	Country: USA
	Genre: SF
	Conditions of visioning: 13.07.2012, Blu-ray, Home Cinema
Synopsis: A group of kids are busy shooting a short movie for a local contest when something big happens and they are confronted with an obscure conspiracy involving the miltary and maybe some extra-terrestrial.
Review: This movie was sold as a "revival" of the Amblin (the production company of Steven Spielberg) movies of the 80's, namely E.T. and The Goonies, by the current hit-maker J.J. Abrams. Indeed the cast is mainly composed of this band of pre-adolescent friends that are involved in a story much bigger than themselves. It is funny to see how many things revolve around them trying to produce a short movie, and you imagine the young J.J Abrams depicted in one of the characters. The little problem I find, although I enjoyed the movie, is that the kids talk, behave and react like adults, and I have never met any kid of that age behaving that way. Otherwise the movie is full of twists, big action scenes and the special effects are great. J.J Abrams abuses a little of the light "flares" like he did already on Star Trek, but we can excuse him.
Rating: 7 /10