Super 8 Review

"I think the trailer did more for me than the movie" is not something I wanted to say when walking out of Super 8, probably my most anticipated release of the Summer. It's something I've dreaded saying for a year now. However this quote is still a ringing endorsement of the lovingly reminiscent and admittedly messy new film by director/producer JJ Abrams. Abrams who envisioned the movie as a throwback to classic Spielberg films like Close Encounters or E.T., with a little Cloverfield mixed in, mostly hits every mark he should, but only after walking out of the theater does one realize how much he did wrong as well. The story takes place in fictional Lillian, Ohio where a young Joe Lamb has just lost his mother to a gruesome factory accident. Joes father Jackson barely knows him and seems unable to cope with their loss. Joes friends, a rag tag group of mostly one note characters, the chubby bossy one, the pyro who doesn't seem to have any parents, the one who vomits every time he gets scared, and the one who's jewish, or italian, are in the middle of their