I Will Always Watch This Movie As a 7-Year-Old Boy

Rating: 10/10 (28 January 2008)

There are some movies it's simply impossible to review with a critical eye, and "E.T." is one of them. Come on -- I was seven when this movie came out. I belonged an E.T. fan club, for God's sake! Let's just say that Steven Spielberg is in his element when working on movies like this, and it's only when he devotes himself to unadulterated fantasy and adventure that his penchant for over sentimentalization is bearable.
I recently saw John Williams conduct music from several of his film scores at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and one of the pieces they performed was a medley set to images from the respective films, "E.T." among them. I'm becoming such a sap as I get older that just the theme and some shots of little Drew Barrymore in pigtails almost made me cry.
Grade: A+