Super 8 spot on, sappy and superb

Super 8 is the nostalgic and tender story of a boy and the mysterious alien creature that escaped from a dramatic train wreck and then terrorized a small community. Don't get too excited that this is another big-budget tent-pole action film. We barely get to see the beast, a stroke of brilliance that Abrams can't possibly deny lifting from Spielberg's shark-based shockfest: make the audience wait forever and then give them what they want. In the meantime, tug relentlessly at their tender heartstrings.

Joe Lamb (Joel Courtney) is a 13-year-old boy in the fictional Ohio town of Lillian. He just lost his mother to a tragic industrial accident, and his dad, the town cop, is not the most emotionally open individual. To deal with his loss, he finds himself spending more time with his friends and their quirky projects.

While making a low-budget zombie movie, Joe and his friends find themselves in the right place at the wrong time. Just as a train zooms past the station, it's struck by a truck, causing a massive derailment. The kids escape disaster but something bursts out of one of the train cars in the dark of night.

Thankful for their lives, they develop the film to discover small glimpses of whatever the thing was. Meanwhile, Lillian experiences a rash of unexplained phenomena and crimes — missing microwaves, power flickering and packs of stray dogs running away. Before people wise up and start leaving Hansel and Gretel trails of M&Ms to entice the creature, it attacks and hauls them away, never to be seen.

And that's when the air force evacuates everybody that's still alive but doesn't tell anyone what's going on. Col. Nelec (Noah Emmerich) finds out the kids filmed the whole thing including the top secret extraterrestrial. Not only that, they discover a military film that reveals crucial details about its telepathic psychological powers.

Really, there isn't that much work in suspending disbelief here because all the actors, mostly teens and pre-teens, are so good at what they do. That's something Bay couldn't accomplish with Shia Labeouf and $225 million at his disposal. His version of understatement is an exploding planet. All that you really have to put up with here are some logic gaps, but hey — it's sci-fi! Anything is possible.

Super 8 is an entirely human drama about growing up in an unpredictable world where bad things happen through no one's fault. With help from producer Spielberg, director Abrams has taken key elements of Jaws and E.T. and thrown in heaping gobs of sappy sentimentalism to appeal to a broader audience. This isn't a creature feature. It isn't an alien monster movie. It isn't even about the woes of growing up. It's all of those things, and more, and it's brilliant. This is the kind of movie that should stand the test of time.

MOVIE REVIEW: Love and loss works in nostalgic "Super 8"

"Super 8" is a throwback of a film, a nostalgic flick in the best sense. Written and directed by J.J. Abrams, it's got a lot of lens flare and a bit too much shaky cam, but it also has a thoroughly well-crafted story that is more about the nature of love and loss and friendship than it is about aliens.

The kids at the center of the film are a gang of boys who love making monster movies on a Super 8 camera. The young director, Charles (Riley Griffiths), has persuaded the very pretty Alice (Elle Fanning) to join their crew for a movie he hopes to submit to a local film competition for kids. While they group are filming, having snuck out at night to shoot in a local train station, they witness an enormous disaster as a passing train hits a pickup truck and derails.

Even amid the explosions and chaos, it's clear to the terrified kids that something is very wrong, and soon strange things start happening in their little town. Dogs run away, lots of equipment is going missing, and soon people are going missing too. The Air Force rolls in and assures everyone that they're just there to clean up the wreckage of their train, but they are suspiciously closed-mouthed about what was on it.

The mystery of what is going on and what was on the train is in many ways secondary to the heart of the film, which is the process of one of the gang, Joe (Joel Courtney), coming to terms with the loss of his mother. Her death happens shortly before the film opens, and is handled with a solemnity

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we don't often see any more when people die in films: a factory's "days since our last accident" sign being reset to "1," a young boy in a dark suit sitting on a front-yard swingset and looking at a locket while the adults inside talk about him in hushed tones.

The film is full of familiar tropes and cinematic shorthand, but these things became cliches because they work. "Super 8" is set in the summer of 1979 and shot like it was made in the early 80s, and for those of us who grew up watching movies like this back then, it's like walking into the diner where you hung out with your friends decades ago and finding it virtually unchanged. "Super 8" has the advantage of a huge budget and modern special effects, but it wisely uses them sparingly. This is a film about people, and every detail matters. The young actors, many of them first-timers, are spot-on, and while most of the film's characters are very simple, none of the actors sleepwalk through their roles. The whole movie fits together like clockwork, and while the emotional notes may not work for everyone, the sheer craft of the film is impressive.

"Super 8" is a movie for folks nostalgic for the movies of a couple decades ago, for those who like stories about a band of kids having an adventure and learning important things about life and about themselves in the process. Yes, it's an old genre, but when these movies work, they really work. "Super 8" works.

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