Just Too Manipulative

Rating: 4/10 (7 September 2003)

I didn't like this film when I was ten, and twenty-one years later it's appeal is still lost on me.
Substitute E.T. with a stray puppy and you've got a movie of the week, minus the lame glowing Christ finger. John Williams hammers home music cues, demanding nothing less than total elation at a flying bike.
Guess I've got a heart of stone, but Close Encounters seems a much more honest and complex film about alien contact.