25 Years Later, My Message Is " E.T. - STAY home!"

Rating: 6/10 (8 March 2007)

This is another blockbuster film of 25 years ago that is well-remembered but doesn't quite have the impact on multiple viewings and in years that have come-and-gone since 1982. Some movies still have a stunning impact, like Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyseey," or Spielberg's "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind," or even Scott's "Alien," but this sci-fi/alien movie seems to have lost its impact. Maybe it's just me, getting to be a cranky old man.
It's still a cute show and one kids would like, except with the part where E.T. is close to death. This is another Steven Spielberg film in which the kids are smarter than the adults...and the adults are always the bad guys. He had that in a number of his popular films and I hope he is finally through with that tiresome nonsense. Maybe he actually learned that adults are smarter than six-year-olds (generally-speaking!).
I got a kick out of this movie at the theater in 1982, but now it just looks too corny, manipulative and an insult to any adult's intelligence.