With all the comic book films and reliance on CGI, with most recent posters using Photoshop (badly) Super 8 seems to harken back to a simpler era, the era of Spielberg at his youngest and most enthusiastic, where kids can be kids and yet have complex emotions, where flashlights have beams that penetrate the camera lens. Sure, Spielberg didn't direct this, but he produced it, and JJ Abrams did get his start like Spielberg making home movies before working under his tutelage. Now the two have teamed together to make Super 8
The reviews are positive overall, but there are a few detractors. As a child of the 80's I'm looking forward to this blast from the past, especially after the rather shallow and disappointing batch of summer films we've gotten so far and that we will likely get.

The reviews are positive overall, but there are a few detractors. As a child of the 80's I'm looking forward to this blast from the past, especially after the rather shallow and disappointing batch of summer films we've gotten so far and that we will likely get.