Mac and me full movie 1988 mac#
The opening half of Mac and Me (let’s say up until the kid in the wheelchair goes off the cliff) is fairly respectable for a moderate-budget family film, but the second half delves deep into the reckless style of storytelling that characterizes every moment of Troll 2. Mac and Me is considerably better in terms of visual fidelity of the special effects, the acting and the cinematography. It actually reminded me of Troll 2 in certain ways (mostly the general feeling of exhaustion watching the film in one sitting brought on), but I hesitate to even mention that film for fear of being misunderstood that I think they are on similar levels. Its script is awful, eschewing a traditional plot for the most of the second half. Mac and Me is hands down one of the most flagrantly bad movies I’ve seen in a while. One thing leads to another and Mac & his family get sucked inside for the ride of their lives! The probe is one of those rock collector units equipped with claws and a vacuum to take samples and return them to the NASA scientists waiting patiently on Earth. To make a long story short, an American space probe lands on the surface of Mac’s planet and the desert-dwelling creatures approach it like the monolith of 2001: A Space Odyssey. It’s questions like this that we’ll never have a definitive answer for, as the promised sequel unfortunately never materialized. Due to their surprised facial structure, their mouths are always ready to go for straw-drinking, and with mouths like that I’d imagine the straw would’ve been one of the first tools this species invented… or maybe their world is populated with straw trees and in order to survive the creatures evolved and adapted to use the tools given them by the area they inhabited.
The dad (or Big Mac) busts into the soil and inserts a makeshift straw, sucking out the life-giving water inside. OK, where was I? The planet is inhabited by weird creatures with eternally surprised looks on their faces, doing their best to survive. I guess now is a good time to state that it’s important that any sort of analytical or critical thinking must be turned off for the remainder of the film or used simply as comedy, as anything else will only result in sheer disappointment with this cinematic gem. Which planet is never revealed, but the foreboding presence of Saturn overhead suggests that it might be one of the ringed planet’s sixty-two moons. The film opens on a distant planet in our solar system. Like fine wine, time has been very kind to our friend Mac and his zany adventures through the Los Angeles basin, resulting in one of the most unexpectedly fun re-watches in a long time. OK, hear me out! If you’re a child of the 80s like myself, you most likely saw this movie when you were a kid and have some vague memories of how it did a horrible job of ripping off Steven Spielberg’s slightly more famous stranded alien film, E.T. Rado, Danny Cooksey, Laura Waterbury, Ronald McDonaldĮxpectations: I have high hopes that this will deliver some B-Movie fun. Starring Christine Ebersole, Jonathan Ward, Tina Caspary, Lauren Stanley, Jade Calegory, Vinnie Torrente, Martin West, Ivan J.
Give the kids a break take them to something else.AKA Mi amigo Mac, Mac – O Extraterrestre, Mac, a földönkívüli barát, Mick… mein Freund vom anderen Stern Mind-blowingly, the last item on the shopping list of hard sells is America itself: the alien no longer wants to go home, he's found a better life in LA. Directed by Raffill with no hint of wit, personality or invention, the film soon degenerates into a litany of product placements: every frame is littered with Coke cans, and the invitation to interpret 'Mac' as 'Mysterious Alien Creature' is unlikely to fool anyone even before the song-and-dance number that pops up in a well-known junk-food chain. Unless you missed E.T., you know the story: an alien, separated from its family and hunted by nameless agents, hides in suburban California, befriends a boy, and is saved by the neighbourhood kids. Unfortunately, there's little else to commend. First the good news: Jade Calegory, who plays the boy-hero in this cuddly alien yarn, was born with spina bifida, and the film is neither sentimental nor exploitative in dealing with its wheelchair-confined star.
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