Friday, July 1, 2011 6:48:34 PM | (Age Not Specified)
I was expecting something special, trusting a Spielberg production would be good, but was very, very disappointed. The story is 99% focused on kids, not the alien, which means you are never told what it is, where it came from, and you never really see what it looks like! So you won't be disappointed like I was, only expect a boy-coming-of-age story (yes, another one - yawn) with no real depth or context to it, haphazard special effects that you have seen a million times before, and a sappy, sloppy story and complacent ending.
I wish I could get my money back. :(
Thursday, June 30, 2011 8:05:43 AM | (age group: 50 or over.) | M
This is ET rewritten for a crazier time. It is actually pretty good until the end, where it seems the writers just ran out of ideas and said "Ok let's make it completely implausible, blow all the credibility we have earned to that point, and then do the ET ending. Hey it worked once". You can see the end coming like a train in the distance and there is nothing you can do to avoid the crash. Sigh. Unfortunately it takes away from everything before it.
