Could have been a lot worse, but it could have been a fair bit better

Rating: 6/10 (7 April 2020)

This movie could have been a lot worse, but it could have been a fair bit better. I would have liked it a lot more if Eliott had been riding his bike and had hit the extra terrestrial creature with it and had brought it home and had then not wanted to return it to his planet, bestowing it with the name "Alf" and have the creature not want to return either and train it to sit which goes wrong and have Elliott's mother say "He HAS to go back where he came from! We don't have enough house left for three days!", and finally have everyone decide it would be better for Alf to stay with them permanently (due mostly to the creature's heroics over something)