ET (movie review)
Nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture, ET won four Oscars and wowed the nation with its 1982 release. A box office sensation, ET formed long lines around every corner of fans waiting to get in. to theaters and boosted children. star Drew Barrymore to superstar status. One of director Steven Spielberg’s greatest triumphs, ET supposedly symbolizes and illustrates the Hollywood icon’s youthful feelings of loneliness that resulted from his parents’ divorce. A heartwarming story about spirits from different worlds, ET is fun for the whole family. With an original soundtrack (composed by John Williams and winner of an Academy Award), ET is a film that excites its viewers by any means at its disposal…
While visiting Earth in the late afternoon, a spacecraft carrying a group of alien botanical researchers is set in motion by the approach of an elite government task force. Disappearing in an instant, one of the aliens is left behind. As the task force searches the woods for signs of the creature, it turns up inside a kid’s toolshed looking for food (like Reese’s Pieces, a produce place way ahead of its time). Discovered by ten-year-old Elliot (Henry Thomas), the alien is nicknamed ET and befriends Elliot, his older brother Michael, and his younger sister Gertie (Drew Barrymore), who are suffering because of their parents. ‘imminent divorce…
Hiding ET in his room, Elliot manages to keep the secret from his mother, while ET slowly learns the Earthman’s ways and ways. Building a communication device that will allow him to “call home” for help, ET begins to run short of time when he contracts a deadly disease and his hideout is discovered by the government task force, concerned only with his ability. to study it. and not about his life. With Elliot’s health now intimately connected to ET, he, too, begins to suffer. Can Elliot and his friends come to ET’s aid? Will ET escape the clutches of his government captors and return home a healthy, smiling alien? The journey to discover it is simply magical…
A true blockbuster and pop culture phenomenon in its time, ET continues to bring joy and inspiration to each new generation of kids who watch it. Like Spielberg’s The Goonies and contemporary Harry Potter films, ET creates movie magic by unleashing a world of endless imagination where children are the true heroes. In doing so, it opens up a new fantasy world for the children who watch it…
Easily one of the 100 greatest movies of all time, ET is a cinematic masterpiece by any standards. Spielberg deserves all the praise and accolades he received both then and now. With its widespread universal appeal and clever blend of cinematography and Williams’ inspired musical score, ET is definitely a must-see movie…don’t pass it up!