Super 8

The story was about a bunch of kids who were in the middle of filming a school project when they witnessed their science teacher purposely crashed on the running train which happened to load an alien and all sorts of material which were not known by the civilian.

Strange thing happened after that. The alien who escaped from the train was caught on the kids film. The alien was on his quest to rebuild his space ship so he stole whatever was out there which was made of steel. This enraged the people who demanded to know what was happening to their things including their dogs who were running away to dispersed places as if very much afraid of something. The town policeman could not understand the situation either. The investigation by them was futile since the culprit aka the air force who knew about it did not want to share their secret. When the police man tried to be adamant, he was kept and locked.

However, when the air force forced the people to evacuate the area where the alien was suspected to be hiding around, the alien went berserk and started kidnapping people and made all the weaponry shooting aimlessly at people and buildings.

The children who witnessed the teacher who crashed onto the train found out more about the alien by breaking out into their school and looking into their teacher stuff. They learned about the alien and after that went on to look for the alien hiding place.

Joe and Cary went to the alien hiding place to rescue alice their friend who was kidnapped by the alien. Inside there, he confronted the alien and told him to just go away and lived on.

The alien built on his space ship and used Joe invaluable chain which had the picture of him and his mother as the final piece. It was a metaphor to suggest that finally the alien can let go of human and live his life again and so was Joe to let go of his memory of his mother and lived on.

My thoughts of this movie

1) It was brilliant

2) The casts were perfect.

3) The children were amazing and funny

4) The alien was kind of a spin off from other alien movies. The difference was that this one happened to be more thoughtful and just wanted to go home. He became angry and vengeful when he was kept/caged and tortured for some test and experiment.

5) The end part was kind of a little odd to me but it did make sense.

6) I am gonna give it 4/5 stars because it was brilliant and the children were amazing. In fact the heroes were the children and not the adult.


Happy watching! ^_^