Super 8

Well I am really no advocate of child actors, quite the contrary actually. I usually find the slightest prof of someone under aged participating in a film a clear and irrefutable reason to not see it, even destroy the copies you can in a fire induced by large quantities of kerosene or gasoline or any other flammable substance you might lay your hands on. But tonight I made an exception, and frankly it is not the first one. And this exception proved to be a good call on my part, and again I must say, far from the first one. What did I do? I saw "Super 8" by director and writer J.J. Adams and a bunch of child or near child actors. And I liked it. I really appreciated that movie!
I like the story, the setting and the backdrop. It is all very familiar; small town USA, during the cold war. Station wagons, a yellow Trans-Am driven by White Trash, a bunch of school kids making their own zombie movie. Even that, why can directors "nerd" on anything but their own behaviour? A millitairy cower up, a beautiful girl, absent parents, families fighting and the list goes on. You have seen it all before if you ever saw E.T., the Goonies, the box, close encounter of the third kind, Roswell, or any other college or Sci Fi movie set in the rural America during the 20th century. The only thing that is remotely revolutionary about this piece is that the child-actors don't suck, on the contrary they are actually more than ok.

So yes I recommend that you watch this flick!