Super 8

Saw this with my 13 year old son.

It sort of worked for me and it didn't work for him at all. He thought it was boring.

Set in late 70s, certainly after StarWars, it was clearly JJ Abrams' homage to Steven Spielberg's ET and Close Encounters of the Third Kind plus others like the Goonies.

Very nostalgic, and if I didn't know it was a JJ Abrams movie, I would have thought it was directed by rather than produced by Steven.

A group of friends is making a movie over the summer, and are out filming one night when they see a train wreck which is swiftly followed by the army taking over the site and their town. It becomes very apparent that there is something very sinister out there that the army want to contain. This has been captured on the film.

There are some funny lines like "can I have my film developed in 24 hours" "no one can do that, the best I can do is three days on a rush". "What are you listening to?" "It's a walkman, you can listen to your cassettes." "People wandering around with personal stereos, it's the thin end of the wedge, you mark my words".

The teens in the screen looked at some of the things and said what is that, and you realise how far we have come in terms of technology.

If I had seen Super 8 in 1978, I would have thought it was amazing. Children these days are so blase about special effects. If it isn't fast and very pacy, they get bored. That doesn't bode well for movies in the future.

Elle Fanning literally burned up the screen when she was on it. She was amazing. Definitely one to watch!