In 1979 Ohio, several youngsters are making a zombie movie with a Super-8 camera. Accidentally they witness a train crash and investigate subsequent unexplained events in their small town.
29 September 1961, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
4 November 1916, St. Joseph, Missouri, USA
October2001, California, USA
1 April 1962, Queens, New York, USA
4 October 1979, Dublin, Ireland
28 April 1934, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
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22 March 1964, Homestead, Florida, USA
31 January 1947, New York City, New York, USA
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4 October 1984, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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November 21, 2016
Like Silly Putty, Super 8 is silly fun. It stretches, snaps, and bounces. It's as elastic as pubescent imagination.June 27, 2011
Spielberg and Abrams are the unwitting targets of their own irony.June 10, 2011
If you're wondering what's missing from so many big-budget, effects-driven Hollywood movies, the answer lies in J.J. Abrams' Super 8: heart and passion. What's happening onscreen really matters to...October 07, 2011
Super 8 is accomplished commercial filmmaking.June 10, 2011
A love letter to a cinematic era, before 'blockbuster' became a synonym for 'franchise' or 'tent pole.'June 23, 2013
It wants to be Spielberg, needs to be Spielberg, begs to be Spielberg. But this ain't Spielberg.March 02, 2013
Great action sequences and a touching story make Super 8 a great summer blockbuster.June 28, 2013
While it may not achieve the level of pop culture canonization as the Spielberg films it invokes, Super 8 should inspire many to use their camera-phones for something more creative than a profile pic.June 30, 2013
An idealistic and powerful summer film with great characters and a wonderful script.February 15, 2013
This Spielbergian misstep by J. J. Abrams attempts to be the emotional coming-of-age equivalent of Stand by Me but instead winds up as a cacophonous mishmash of Goonies and War of the Worlds.August 03, 2011
A diverting but rather pointless affair, undermined by its obsessive and clinical commitment to recreating past glories.June 10, 2011
Remember the good old days? This is the movie you went to see on a Saturday afternoon in the good old days.