A classic!

Rating: 9/10 (20 June 2006)

It was four years ago my family and I watched the 20th anniversary edition of the DVD. My father actually had fond memories of this movie when it came out (in his single adult years), mainly because of this famous line ' ET Phone Home'. After I saw it on DVD, I realised why my father said that.
It's really touching and moving. The alien (ET) is also quite cute, maybe given the overall appearance is not what one can consider cute actually. And I can never imagine that I will see a young Drew Barrymore (given I often heard this movie is one of her earliest participation) on the screen.
It's really amazing and heart-warming, especially when Elliot is very attached to ET though the latter has to be send back to where it belongs. It almost broke my heart as I watched. I almost cried. Yes.
It first came out five years before I was born (okay, indirectly saying how old I am now...LOL) but then in its 20th anniversary edition, I guessed I knew why director Steven Spielberg is considered among the best in the business. It says it all in this movie.