DESCRIPTION

IT STARTS WITH A TRAIN CRASH...
A GROUP OF KIDS MAKING THEIR ZOMBIE MOVIE WITNESSES THE INCIDENT...THEIR SUPER 8 CAMERA CAPTURES IT ALL...

WHAT FOLLOWS NEXT WILL CHANGE THE FACE OF THE SMALL MINING TOWN OF LILLIAN, OHIO FOREVER...

SUPER 8 IS A SPIELBERG MOVIE THAT SPIELBERG DID NOT DIRECT...HE PRODUCED THIS ONE AND GAVE THE REINS TO WRITER-DIRECTOR JJ ABRAMS...THE RESULT IS OLD SCHOOL FILMMAKING AT ITS FINEST...

SET IN THE SUMMER OF 1979...THE HEART OF THE STORY REVOLVES AROUND THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE KIDS...THERE'S GABRIEL BASSO AS MARTIN THE ACTOR...ZACH MILLS AS PRESTON THE KNOW IT ALL...
THERE'S ALSO RILEY GRIFFITHS AS CHARLES THE DIRECTOR...

AND THEN THERE'S MY FAVORITE, RYAN LEE AS CARY...THE FIRESTARTER...THIS KID HAS GREAT COMEDIC TIMING...

AND THEN WE HAVE THE MAIN GUY...JOEL COURTNEY AS JOE LAMB...HE JUST LOST HIS MOTHER AND HE'S TRYING TO BUILD A RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS DISTANT FATHER...DEPUTY JACKSON LAMB PLAYED BY KYLE CHANDLER...

HELPING THE FILMMAKING GANG BE BACK ON TRACK IS THE ALWAYS FANTASTIC ELLE FANNING AS ALICE...THEIR LONE FEMALE MEMBER...

PART E-T...PART CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND...WITH A HEAVY DASH OF STAND BY ME...SUPER 8 IS A GREAT THRILL RIDE THAT I WANT TO GO ON OVER AND OVER AGAIN...

AS EXPECTED...THE SPECIAL EFFECTS ARE FANTASTIC...WAIT UNTIL YOU SEE THE FULL TRAIN SCENE...

BUT I ALSO LOVE THE WELL DRAWN CHARACTERS...ABRAMS KNOWS THAT IN ORDER FOR US TO BELIEVE THE UNBELIEVABLE...WE MUST CARE FOR THE CHARACTERS...

SUPER 8 IS FUNNY...HEARTFELT...AND CREEPY...ALL THE NECESSARY INGREDIENTS THAT MAKE IT A GREAT SUMMERTIME POPCORN MOVIE...YOU WILL BELIEVE...

AND FOR THAT...SUPER 8 GETS 4 UFO KISSES...