Best movie of this year hands down!

i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

I gave this film a 9 out of 10, because it was exactly what I expected it to be.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

This film has often been compared to E.T. Yes, it is like E.T. but better than E.T. When I watched this film when I was a kid, I thought it was better than E.T. Now that I am an adult, I still believe it is better than E.T.

IMHO Mac and Me is far superior to E.T. I can understand the obvious comparisons, but I just really loved Mac's interaction with his Mom and Dad, ALSO how their whistling communication could express the emotions they were feeling at a given time. I know I am in the minority about this, but I like the movie a lot.

That's right folks! That's why our cute little alien buddy is spelled "Mac" instead of "Mack." There's even have a scene where we get to see a crowd of young adults singing & dancing in a McDonald's restaurant while Mac is attempting to escape some men-in-black! Mac and Me is the ultimate product placement movie! Sheer evil genius! I lost track of how many times they mentioned something about McDonald's in this film. It's so pervasive Mac and Me should be considered one long commercial and it should have been free to watch when the film was released! On a more somber note. This could have been a great movie. Sure it's an E.T. carbon copy. But so what! You could tell somebody was trying hard to write a meaningful story. What a shame! Too bad corporate backed insanity won the day!

OK, so what's the worst thing about "Mac and Me"? Is it that the movie is a blatant "E.T." ripoff? Or is it that the movie is essentially a 90-minute commercial (complete with a dance sequence in a McDonald's)? Whatever the answer is, the point is that this movie is the celluloid equivalent of a human rights abuse. It has NO good qualities, not a single one (it was incidental that this was Jennifer Aniston's debut). I have seen a number of crummy movies that turned out to have sort of an enjoyable side. Hell, I even took "Myra Breckinridge" and "Mommie Dearest" seriously (no, really, I did). But "Mac and Me" is probably the movie that Dr. Forrester and TV's Frank could've shown Mike, Servo and Crow to make them go insane on "Mystery Science Theater 3000". For the life of me I cannot figure out why Steven Spielberg didn't sue the makers of "Mac and Me" for copying "E.T." (then again, maybe it's better that he didn't, since it would've given the ripoff undeserved publicity).It should come as no surprise that this litany of awfulness regularly shows up on lists of the worst movies ever made. It makes any Ed Wood movie look like a cross between "Citizen Kane" and "Dr. Strangelove". Thankfully, audiences recognized it for what it was and it bombed, and so there was no sequel.