I will admit to being very negative towards Super 8 based on the trailer but gave it a go anyway.
Happily, I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought it would - though it did have a bit of a cheesy ending.
The film is set in 1979, a time when kids had to find constructive things to occupy themselves, and centres on a group of teenagers who are making a film (on a Super 8mm camera, hence the name) when a train spectacularly crashes around them.
From there all manner of strange things start to happen and when the US Airforce turns up to clean up the mess people start to wonder. Particularly Joey (Joel Courtney) and his film-making friends.
As Joey's dad Jackson (Kyle Chandler), the deputy sheriff, investigates the kids make the most of the situation to make their movie and work out what is going on.
It's definitely in the sci-fi genre as something begins picking off residents and soldiers. In a style not seen often in similar films in recent years, you don't get a good look at what is attacking the town until very late in the piece. I think that's a great thing. I remember Alien 3 having very little suspense because you saw the alien pretty early on so had nothing to creep you out like in the first couple.
Happily, I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought it would - though it did have a bit of a cheesy ending.
The film is set in 1979, a time when kids had to find constructive things to occupy themselves, and centres on a group of teenagers who are making a film (on a Super 8mm camera, hence the name) when a train spectacularly crashes around them.
From there all manner of strange things start to happen and when the US Airforce turns up to clean up the mess people start to wonder. Particularly Joey (Joel Courtney) and his film-making friends.
As Joey's dad Jackson (Kyle Chandler), the deputy sheriff, investigates the kids make the most of the situation to make their movie and work out what is going on.
It's definitely in the sci-fi genre as something begins picking off residents and soldiers. In a style not seen often in similar films in recent years, you don't get a good look at what is attacking the town until very late in the piece. I think that's a great thing. I remember Alien 3 having very little suspense because you saw the alien pretty early on so had nothing to creep you out like in the first couple.
Anyway. if Super 8 is similar to another film I'd have to say it is The Goonies. It just has that feel. A bunch of kids on a quest to save the town run into an extraordinary situation. There's no Truffle Shuffle, but that's the basic feel.
As said I enjoyed Super 8 quite a bit, though I felt they needed an extra couple of scenes to tie things up a bit bitter. It ended abruptly and quite cheesily.
As said I enjoyed Super 8 quite a bit, though I felt they needed an extra couple of scenes to tie things up a bit bitter. It ended abruptly and quite cheesily.
A 7 out of 10.
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