Nostalgia spectacle

Rating: 8/10 (7 April 2018)

The story is pretty easy to follow, it's noisy, it's fast, the kind of action film I like to watch. The characters are interesting and well made. Anyway, the story is not pretty straightforward, sometimes it feels like it is favoring the references it makes and not the story, but well, that kind of stuff comes directly from the original book that has the very same mistake. I like the fact that the movie keeps making fun of some of the fears that people tend to have over the internet in its early days and still today. Its comedy is easy to understand and it doesn't abuse of it.
When the film beggings, we get that the pop culture will be a common motive of this movie, starting with Van Halen's 80's hit, Jump. This motive continues over and over through the entirety of the movie, making us remember the T-Rex of Jurassic Park or the entirety of Roberts Zemeckis's "Back to the future"
The 3D world created by the amazing VFX artist from different studios it's pretty stunning, making every frame something pretty beautiful and filled with secrets. I wonder if someday someone would go frame by frame just to get every easter egg hidden in this.
Spielberg can make us feel like we were part of this world from the very beginning, it begins with a long explanation, but we eventually feel welcomed in this world where imagination is the limit. We feel like we completely understand it, and maybe we do.