Super 8

Plot
Joseph Lamb (Joel Courtney) looses his mother in a accident at the steel factory, at the moment he and his friends are recording a film about zombies. After convincing Alice Dainard (Elle Fanning) to play the wife of the private detective they decide to shoot the scene, at night, at a railroad track. They witness the train crash, and the military take over the small Ohio Town.
The deputy Jackson Lamb (Kyle Chandler), tries to uncover the truth, not knowing his son are in the middle of it. The truth turns out to be something no one would ever have guessed.

Opinion
One can straight away see this is a work of Steven Spielberg (most famous for among other E.T, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, and the TV-series Taken (where he also worked with the sister of Elle Fanning, Dakota)). Spielberg loves to show us young heroes (found in E.T and Taken), and things no one knows existed. The monster in this film had, when looked close upon, a great touch of E.T in him, and also, the films takes place in a time, when people (mostly adults) are afraid of the outside, the cold war is at it's peek, and everyone is scared.
J.J Abrams, (the producer of Lost, Alias and Cloverfield) on the other hand seem to like technical things. Some of the props in this film had a close resemblance to things we can see in Alias, but the "oh, we can't really see the monster until the end of the film"- is somewhat close to how he made Cloverfield.

I guess I could say you should go see the film. There are some lose treads (as we know J.J Abrams, had the same idea with Lost), unseen monsters that might ruin the experience. Joe is very similar to the character of Elliot in E.T, and the second Fanning sister, are rather similar to her older sister, as she was portraying Allie (yeah, not much of a name change, as Alice were called Allie throughout the film) in Taken.

What's good with the film is the first half, where the monster is unknown. We just know something is lurking, but we have no real idea what it is, except dangerous. Also, the fact that they do not work with stereotype teenagers (or youngsters on the brink of becoming teenagers), as are done in many films (another films working that well too is Mysterious Skin). That was nice to see. There were all kind of outsiders, but there were no real "cool gang".

If you like E.T, Lost and Alias (preferably in a combination) go see the film, otherwise, don't. Or at least don't spend money on seeing it in the movies.