My examples are more subtle but at the end when the star of our little mangled mess looses his trinket to the magnetic monsters creation, why does the 70s porn necklace of the girls father stay neatly put under his “wife beater” T shirt, in close up at that?

In the end, who are we to feel sorry for? The monster that was just munching on hived humans in the previous scenes? really? What about all these rivalries that were set up? are they magically wiped clean when the credits roll? We have no ending. We have several misdirected slights of hand trying to distract us but really, this was typical Hollywood thoughtless stuff that fails at even the tried and true formulas.

Secondary titles that could have been on this poster:
“ET Grows a pair”
“ET really really wants to go home”
“ET, this time it’s leg munching time”

While my wife said she thought it was an updated teen film in the vein of Goonies, I disagree for the very mixed messages it sends, especially the “tearful ending” where the guy that just ate a few people gets to finally go home. I guess that’s justice? I cannot recommend this movie to anyone. It’s just flat.

S.

I can’t believe that I just watched the same Super 8 that all the other people who wrote reviews about this movie watched. This was the worst movie that I have seen since Bobby Deerfield ! Abrams would have done better making a movie about a chain of motels.First, how the hell does the teacher survive a head on collision with a mega-ton , high speed train and come away with just some facial cuts ????? WTF. Then, can anybody explain to me why and/or how the deputy sheriffs wife died and why did the young girls Dad feel guilty about it? From here (about 7-8 minutes into the movie) , it got more absurd. The alien, referred to as HE, goes through the better part of the flick tossing cars, trucks , stoves , busses and whatever around like he’s flipping pancakes, but at the used car lot, he meticulously removes all the engines from all the cars without not even putting a scratch on any of the cars. Now, throughout the movie, HE, collects some humans and stores them upside down in his batcave or whatever you want to call it, for what reason?? Never explained! I just read a review where the reviewer had commented on the ” Teary-Eyed Ending”…….ARE YOU F*****G SH*****G ME ??????? I felt more sympathy for Momma Alien when Sigourney dispatched her permanently. And as far as the ENDING ending……PUHLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZ. HE, either magnetically or telepathically sucks up cars, trucks, rifles , stoves and the like to form what is supposed to be his escape ship. But, some of the soldiers still had their rifles and amidst this sucking up of everything metallic in sight, the deputy sheriff pulls up in a Jeep that for some strange reason must have been sprinkled with some magic military dust, because it was not affected by this magnetic sucking upness. I don’t know, maybe I should have burned one before I watched this piece of utter trash. I left with the feeling that my intelligence was questioned. 100% disappointed.