The Goonies and the
E.T. kids meet
Cloverfield!
Seriously though, this is indeed a supremely fun film. I can't remember the last time I have enjoyed a film this much in the theater.
JJ Abrams has taken a simple-sounding plot and made it into a remarkably well-fleshed film, with plenty of throwbacks to older Spielberg classics such as
E.T. and
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. The kids do wonderfully well in their characters, and the "special guest star" has a lot of loaded effects to it's credit, aided supremely by the stupendous cinematography.
THE movie of the summer, by far. Watch it in theaters with full Sorround Sound effects, and you will be blown away, specially in the second half.
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