While making a zombie home movie with their super 8 movie camera, a group of nerdy teens witness a gigantic train wreck, inadvertently capturing the carnage on film in the process. As bad as the wreck is, it is what escaped from the train when it went off the rails that will eventually get the kids in a lot of trouble while giving audiences a near-perfect summer movie thrill ride. Directed by J. J. Abrams, Super 8 is that rare kind of summer movie that is filled with state-of-the-art special effects which are there to actually enhance the story and not just to distract the audience so they won’t realize how lame the story -- or the acting -- is. In fact, cool as some of the effects are (and some of them are really, really cool) it is the characters that stay with you long after the movie is over. The fact that the characters are played by kids, many of whom you have never seen in a movie before, somehow makes it even more enjoyable.
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