Super 8 - 2011

This is a great movie! Wonderfully made. I love all of it. It's mostly on the shoulders of a bunch of teenagers, but they do such a good job it is never a problem, on the contrary! These kids do a great job, all of them. Such a great movie, where we follow these kids and their discoveries, while they try to shoot a little film or simply try to survive and save each other. Joe (Joel Courtney) son of deputy sheriff Jack (Kyle Chandler); his best friend Charles (Riley Griffiths), and other friends Martin (Gabriel Basso), Cary (Ryan Lee) and the new entry in their little group: Alice (Elle Fanning). She's amazing, by the way.
They witness a train accident, then the army comes to town and troubles begin. They discover that years ago an alien had crashed on Earth and simply wanted to build himself a new spaceship to go back home, nothing else, but the army kept him prisoner, testing him and experimenting on him, torturing him, poor thing.
It was great the fact that we didn't see it until the end, added suspance and made the ending more special. The scene at the gas station was great, but also little moments like Joe putting makeup on Alice, or Alice proving her zombie part: great young actors!
Now the soldiers wants to take him prisoner again, but he won't allow it. He'll dig himself a big hole where he can do what he has to do to built his spaceship. He kills the soldiers trying to stop him, and takes some people prisoners. When Alice is one of them, the kids go to her rescue. it's not easy to escape from tunnels you don't know from the fast creature that did them, so they are found. Joe talks to it, and they make phisical contact when it picks Joe up in his hand.. well, one of his hands, then Joe talks to him some more, helped by the fact that phisical contact causes a psichic connection between them, and he tells it that he understands he just want to go home, and that yes, bad things, terrible things have happened, but it can still live! Those big eyes opening, as a clear sign that they are understanding each other, are great. At the end, a lot of things from the street are attracted to the same point, as if by a powerful magnet, although I don't understand why some things are and other things aren't, I mean, only one car in the parking space, one rifle but not the others, things like that. It doesn't appear to be a mistake, maybe there is a reason I don't know. All these things, together with those strange cubes built a big, great spaceship where he can finally enter and go home!! Hooray. It was a nice moment when Jack found Joe again, he had been so worried, and he hugs him and only says "I found you. I found you" and nothing else matters. It was the best thing to say. I loved it.
When the final credits start, don't switch it off but just wait, because there is more :-D There is the little film the kids made :-p About a p.i. investigating a zombie crisis created by the Romero Chemical :lol:
It was written and directed by J.J. Abrams, the same that rebooted Star Trek!!! Produced by Steven Spielberg, of course.