saw: the first avenger
Super 8 may have received the Spielberg imprimatur but Spielberg protégé Joe Johnston delivers an actual successor to the director's early works in the form of this latter-day Rocketeer riff—that earlier movie itself a successful Joe Johnston exercise in WWII derring-do. While the results this time around feel somewhat more machine-assembled, nothing beats beating Nazis in an air-conditioned theater on a hot summer day. Grade: B+