J.J. Abrams is a movie nerd, and I mean that in the most positive sense of the word. The man responsible for TV’s Lost andAlias, the updated Star Trek, Cloverfield and other sci-fi and action movies has now combined his latest story with memories of Super 8 movie-making in his youth. But with Super 8, he seems to be doing even more, emulating the early films of Steven Spielberg, another Super 8 enthusiast, and a producer here. Whether or not that’s true, the result is a great summer movie.
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