SUPER 8

The highly anticipated film Super 8 has finally made it's way to us from film makers J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg. It stars Joel Courtney, Ryan Lee, Zach Mills, Riley Griffiths, and Amanda Michalka. The story focuses on 5 middle school Ohio kids filming a movie for inclusion in an amateur film making contest in Cleveland. While making their movie they pay witness to a huge train crash. After this crash weird stuff begins to take place in their small town. And it's up to the kids to try and solve it.

I think it's best not to get too heavily involved into the plot of the movie. Clearly the film makers want the audience to get into it for the first time while watching the movie. That's when you should really find out what it's about.

Let me say that this may be my favorite movie so far this year. It's superb. The acting is through the roof by all the young actors, even though this is pretty much the first thing any of them have really done.

Apart of the greatness is that Super 8 is clearly a homage throwback to classic Spielberg and other great films of the 1980s. Specifically Goonies, Stand By Me, E.T. (the greatest movie ever), and The Monster Squad among others. Adding to this is the fact that the movie seems to be taking place right about 1979/1980 (except for one thing I thought I saw that would place the time period in the late 1980s).

Finally, Super 8 has probably the best ending of the year, atleast so far. It really made me think of E.T. (the greatest movie ever).

I will say no more but to........GO NOW! ... AND GO BUY E.T. IF YOU HAVEN'T YET (IT'S THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER).