In addition to its lack of originality, Mac and Me is also blatantly commercial, selling everything from candy to soft drinks to fast-food restaurants.
Mac and Me (1988)
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Reviews Counted:14
Fresh:0
Rotten:14
Average Rating:2.4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 41 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: Family film about a cute, charming alien who's stranded on Earth, but becomes friends with a boy confined to a wheelchair. The two enjoy adventures with each other (including a song-and-dance... Family film about a cute, charming alien who's stranded on Earth, but becomes friends with a boy confined to a wheelchair. The two enjoy adventures with each other (including a song-and-dance number at McDonald's!), but eventually the being from another planet is reunited with his parents. [More]
Starring: Christine Ebersole, Jonathan Ward, Jade Calegory, Katrina Caspary
Starring: Christine Ebersole, Jonathan Ward, Jade Calegory, Katrina Caspary
Director: Stewart Raffill
Director: Stewart Raffill
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Reviews for Mac and Me
Watching it's made me a little stupider, buying it would have also dropped me a few social classes.
Then there's Mac himself, a puppet which couldn't possibly look more like a puppet (a bad, shoddy puppet at that).
If you made a film about a homesick extraterrestrial befriended by a little boy, would you dare to have the creature look like E. T.'s cousin?
This shameless E.T. knockoff features a wrinkly alien and a kid in a wheelchair.
A product placement for McDonald's. Hook them kids in quick, and they'll be eating junk for life.
I'm not sure I've ever seen a movie that is as crass a 90-minute commercial as Mac and Me.
So why is it so hard to like this film? Having seen it done so much better by Spielberg doesn't help, of course.
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