phone home.” (115 mins., DCP, rated PG for language and mild thematic elements)ĭrive-in attendees will receive a free activity bag (one for each car while supplies last) that contains a coloring page, craft materials, and instructions. is full of adventure and laughs, and the blockbuster introduced audiences around the world to Drew Barrymore, Reese’s Pieces, and the phrase “E.T. Endlessly imitated but still singular, E.T. To see “E.T.” again is to wish you could see it for the first time, or, if not that, take somebody who can.Steven Spielberg's timeless story follows the unforgettable journey of a lost alien and the 10-year-old (Henry Thomas) he befriends. Seeing the film again reminds us how miraculous it was that the contributions of dozens of people-from Caprice Rothe, the mime who did the hands, to Pat Welsh, who recorded E.T’s dialogue, to the 12 animatronic operators and the little people inside the suit-coalesced to form a creature as individual as it was completely believable.īut no matter how much you know about how “E.T.” was put together, reason and knowledge recede in the face of still-breathtaking moments like Elliott’ s bicycle suddenly taking flight. Similarly, though special effects have advanced mightily in the past two decades, E.T., like “Forbidden Planet’s” Robby the Robot, is an icon we love just the way he is. “E.T.” is also quite brilliantly cast, so much so that it’s impossible to think of anyone but Drew Barrymore as the tiny dynamo Gertie or to even imagine the earnest, ever so serious Elliott, the boy who wails, “He came to me,” as being played by someone besides Henry Thomas.īarrymore and Thomas have had sizable adult careers (she was recently in “Riding in Cars With Boys” he will be in “Gangs of New York”), and Erika Eleniak, the girl Elliott kisses, grew up to became a star on “Baywatch.” But because they moved from child to adult as opposed to adult to older adult (as happened to the actors in “Apocalypse Now”), the change in their appearances doesn’t throw us out of the movie.
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