Review - Super 8

by Mr. Blunderson

I can visualize a young JJ Abrams seeing ET and thinking "you know what that movie needs?  A shit-ton of lens flares!"

I had a great time watching this movie and I loved, LOVED, watching it with my kids but after the first hour every damn lens flare took me out of the picture.  In the last 20 minutes it became laughable.  I was trying not to ruin it for my family but I couldn't help it.  I was being lens flared to death.

That said, I really liked Super 8.  There were a couple of things that took me out of the viewing experience that were not lens flare related but I think that if I get into those specifics I might spoil it for the three people who haven't seen it, but I can't live with that on my shoulders.

I'll give Super 8 a Way Decent on the Mr Blunderson scale, but a fair amount of that is because at heart I am a massive sap, and this really did take me.  Take out the lens flares and  the score would be even better than that.