Cinema Review: Super8

In the eighties a group of teenagers are filming a movie, on a super8 camera, when something happens to their town.

The blurb of the story really doesn’t convey how good this movie is. It was intended as an homage to the “Spielbergverse” of the eighties, you know those movies where a bunch of kids in a little American town come upon something incredible like an alien looking for home or a map to a pirate’s treasure? Yes that kind of movie.

Now what is incredible is that what was obvious and repetitive in the eighties is incredibly original now because simply they are not making that kind of movie anymore!

Abrahams not only took the setting from Spielberg, who produced the movie, he took the good stuff also.

Those kids are real characters; we get to know them and to care for them before the obligatory final act full of stuff blowing up. Actually the best complain I’ve heard about the movie is that we care so much them that we don’t really care about the monster of the week.

Speaking about the monster Abrahams clearly remember the lesson that he imparted to the world with “Cloverfield”. All the monster related stuff is filmed from the point of view of us poor humans and so a relatively little train accident is much scarier and more adrenalinic than two hours of transformers three.

Must see cinema.