Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9781417065806
Format: AC-3
ISBN: 141706580X
Label: Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2005-08-23
Running Time: 121
Studio: Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1982-06-11

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Summary: ET The Extra Terrestrial
Comment: This movie is a classic but this version has some newly added footage that was included without warning. I still love ET but this one is not the original and I wish I would have known that.

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Summary: The warmest story of Sci Fi
Comment: E.T. is the warmest story of Sci Fi since The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951). This amazing story of a 10-years-old boy (Thomas) who meets a creature of other planet. The film shows love, warmth, friendship and courage in a Sci Fi movie which calls the attention and likes both of children and adults. The sound and the visual effects are excellent. And the audience really learn to love ET through the sensibility of this extra-terrestrial.
Apart from Henry Thomas, all the cast of the young children are superb, specially Drew Barrymore and Robert MacNaughton. The end is terrific. Great creation and direction of Steven Spielberg.

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Summary: Great sci-fi classic of alltime, as well as Drew Barrymore's adorable debut
Comment: I was nine years old when I first this movie and it was great seeing again after 25 years.
The classic mega sci-fi hit about the lonely 10 year old boy who finds and befriends a gentle alien, is as wonderful as the classic ever was.
Elliot (Henry Thomas) stumbles across the alien who soon names himself ET, and soon his oldere brother Michael (Robert Macnaughton) and his absolutely adorable 7 year old mischeivous sister Gertie (played by a vey young Drew Barrymore in her heartstealing debut performance).

Some very memorable secenes include the part where Gertie teaches ET to talk, where the kid's mother (Dee Wallace) opens Elliot's cupboard and passes ET off as one of his toys, the tearjerking scenes of ET dying in the scientists medical facility, and of course the psychical connection of ET and Elliot, leading Elliot to experience the symptoms of being drunk in science class when ET is drinking the beer at home. Elliot sets all the frogs who are about to be dissected, free, and As the alien watches John Wayne kiss Maureen O'Hara in The Quiet Man, Elliott's psychic link causes him to kiss a pretty girl in the class he likes (Erika Eleniak) in the same manner.
humour includes the boys at school taunting Elliot that the alien he claims he has discovered is from 'uranus'.

ET's later illness is paralelled by Elliot's illness and who can forget where Elliot, Michael and their friends on are lifted their bycicles into the sky, while getting ET past the auhtorities.

And then of course the scene where ET before being collected by his fellow aliens in the spaceship, says goodbye to Michael. Gertie and Elliot, and ET points to elliot's heart6 reminding him he will always be there.
Some really nifty reminders of the earely 80s teenage culture of the time including if you are really observant, Michael's space invaders sweatshirt.
This classic is as wonderful to see as ever for kids sseing it for the first time a smuch as for adults taking a trip down memory lane.
It stands on it's own and was never spoiled by an attempt at a sequel (very wise of you Mr Spielberg!).

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Summary: loved this movie
Comment: I purchased this dvd for my collection because I wanted it for my grandchildren when they get old enough to see it. It was one of the best movies for kids to see.

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Summary: Excellent Movie still makes me cry.
Comment: I love this movie and it's great for kids. A little scary in some scenes for the very little one's but my daugher is a huge fan. She is 3.

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Editorial Reviews:

Steven Spielberg's 1982 hit about a stranded alien and his loving relationship with a fatherless boy (Henry Thomas) struck a chord with audiences everywhere, and it furthered Spielberg's reputation as a director of equally strong commercial sensibilities and classical leanings. Henry Thomas gives a strong, emotional performance as E.T.'s young friend, Robert MacNaughton and Drew Barrymore make a solid impression as his siblings, and Dee Wallace is lively as the kids' mother. The special effects almost look a bit quaint now with all the computer advancements that have occurred since, but they also have more heart behind them than a lot of what we see today. --Tom Keogh