Out of This World!

Rating: Null/10 (6 November 2002)

The Earth revolves around the sun once a year. Watching ET again was like watching the sun come up again to enrich the Earth and its Earthlings with a kind of brightness that only the sun can do.. I believe that the E.T. that has enriched my life came back again to enrich it all over again. I will forever praise Steven Spielberg as well as the producers, writers, cast members, and technicians who gave so much to make this little-but-big movie inspire a whole world of Earthlings because of the simple fact that no matter how many edits that have occurred, you can't really fake the chemistry that made this movie touch the hearts of most people. And the new 20th Anniversary doesn't.
Unlike some people who have panned this movie from the get-go, I beleive that the 20th Anniversary Edition - had no effect on the adventuristic and real-life theme that I fell in love with 20 years ago. The edits and enhancements that they did were practically unnoticeable - only a person who has no life other than studying every frame of this magnificent movie would notice. The chemistry between cast members and E.T. remains the same - I mean who could ever forget how Drew Barrymore's Gertie dressed E.T. in an old lady's suit and taught E.T. how to talk or the sense of real friendship that developed between Henry Thomas and E.T. That is something I feel that no computer graphic can replace. Even the movie's message can not be reproduced for a sequel which would most likely "kill" the first movie had they ever tried it.
I must admit, for a while, I forgot about E.T. I mean I was only 3 and half when it came out and that was 20 years ago. It wasn't until I saw the beginning credits of the 20th Anniversary Edition that all the reasons why I loved E.T. in 1982 came back to haunt me - it is a timeless classic that will always do just that. And I wish that E.T. would come to Earth again and again and again, just like the sun!