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Another crack! An early look at summer 2008 movies.

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Blasts from the past are aiming to hit big again this season. Globe critics Ty Burr and Wesley Morris offer an early look.

You're out enjoying a beautiful summer day when the phone rings.

"Hello? Indiana, who? Oh, Indy. Wow. It's been a while. Like 19 years. You have a new movie? Are you kidding? Wasn't the one before this called 'The Last Crusade'? Yeah, yeah. I'll probably go. But seriously: Why are you back?"

Moviegoers could be having versions of that skeptical conversation all summer. The season is top-heavy with stars, franchises, and directors that want to win us over again. M. Night Shyamalan (back to disaster-horror basics). Mike Myers (who hasn't been seen in a movie since 2003's "The Cat in the Hat"). The Incredible Hulk (never mind that he just had a live-action blockbuster five years ago). Even Mulder and Scully are back - Mulder and Scully? Is all this regeneration brilliant or desperate?

The year's summer preview has its doubts on both scores. But it was written with the subtitle of that upcoming "X-Files" movie in mind. It's called "I Want to Believe." So do we.

(Tom Bachtell/For The Boston Globe)
Tom Bachtell/For The Boston Globe
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