E.T. wants to go home again!

Rating: Null/10 (28 October 2004)

1982. That was the year when E.T. was released... 22 years ago. And here it goes again! We have year 2004 and we have (almost) the same story. Frankly, what's the difference between these to movies?
Spoilers!!!!
E.T. was extra-terrestrial, but could Tom Hanks be more alien to N.Y. airport than he is? E.T. gets help from kids, which Spielberg shows us as outsiders in the society... Tom Hanks gets help from outsiders as well. Adult this time, but outsiders anyway. E.T. can make miracles with levitating balls and other thinks, Tom Hanks is just a "miracle" plumber or whatever he actually is... is it just my opinion that these two guys are so much alike? And so are the stories. First no one understands them, then they learn how to communicate, than they find their way to the hearts of others, then there's a bad guy who wants to get them no matter what, but for some weird reason he can't,... And, at the end, they both fly home.:-) The only difference I noticed was the lady played by C.Z. Jones... I really felt sorry for her. This is a example of a badly written women character in a movie. Just one example which says it all. Remember this?
Frank Dixon : You could have any man you wanted... why Viktor Navorski?
Amelia : That's something a man like you could never hope to understand.
I would bet my right hand (and I'm right-handed) she doesn't understand either. You can see it in her eyes....
Why did Spielberg make the same fairy-tale again? Did he really mean it to be for adults??? 5/10