Admirable film.

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

This is without-a-shadow-of-a-doubt one of the most dreadfully APPALLING films of all time!! It's a (disgracefully) shameless rip-off of "E.T." sponsored and financed (SO obviously so) by McDonalds and Coca Cola.It's so ludicrous and shameful that once you get beyond that what it falsely claims to be... it actually proves so very enjoyable as the piece of steaming pile of drivel that it actually is."Mac & me" is the "Plan 9 From Outer Space" of its time.

You know, I used to walk by this as a kid at my local Blockbuster and look at it and for some reason never wanted to see it. Now I feel a divine hand was at play to keep my love for E.T. and all that is good in the world from being emotionally sodomized.It's truly beyond words how much I hate this advertisement and movie that would've been horribly sued if it hadn't bombed. Throughout this movie I was let down each time the grotesque stupid creatures didn't die a horrible, torturous death. The people were just generally bad actors and uninteresting. I just can't respect this as a real movie. It's soooooo much ET and such a blatant advertisement for diabetes water: coca cola, and MacPoop food. And those aliens... those horrible animatronics and faces that are disturbing to look at. It really highlights how amazing that Spielberg's movie could make an alien that could be seen as almost grotesque, lovable. Man, these producers in the 80's must've really, really thought children were stupid. Do not see this whatever you do. Save yourself!

This movie is seems to be described as an E.T. rip off however there are some plot holes in comparison.The movie kicks off with Nasa extracting matter from planet IpediusEric cruise (jade calegory) and is Mother (christin ebersole) and brother move from Illinois to their new exiting home to discover that a baby alien is stalking jade calegoryThe product placement in this movie is truly insane (coca cola and MacDonald's)Tina caspary was stunning in the film It was a good movie when i was 7 but wouldn't watch this again The soundtrack in this was not terrible with some good artists (debbie lytton, marcy levy)watch the MacDonald's dance scene and you will die of laughter

This movie was rated as the worst ever, but I thought is was done quite well. You'd have to think of the target audience: Eighties kids, teenagers. They didn't mind the clumsy muppet play, it's a compelling story at a nice pace. A family of aliens gets taken from god knows where, could be a moon of Saturn by the looks of it, back to Earth by an automated NASA explorer spacecraft. They get into a big turmoil at the NASA base, but escape in the confusion. The youngest one gets separated and lands with a family which is just moving in the state. After that, things indeed look somewhat like E.T. There are folks here saying it is all stolen from E.T., well that must be true, though there wasn't anything really reminding me of ET - it is only when I consciously compare the scripts, certain things look similar. There were some really weird things yes like the obvious referring to McDonalds (must be a sponsor), Coca Cola as the beverage of choice for the aliens - it even brought them back to life. the McDonalds scene is pretty weird but hey - nobody said this movie shouldn't be. Dancers all around, even on the parking lot, freaking out on a kids party - Ronald McDonald is there too. The funniest goof is when the waitress hands out empty cups with straws, one falls on the ground, the younger girl picks it up - they didn't even bother to redo that scene, probably because it was a ridiculous scene anyway. Finally, all ends brilliantly, the aliens adept really well, and become true Americans!The acting, screenplay, music and general production were of genuine B- movie quality. Only the special effects were not as good as one would expect in production with a reasonable budget like this one. Bud kids, in the time of the release, weren't that picky like they are now in this 3d animated era. Did I find this movie entertaining? Surprisingly, yes I did!