All that was missing from this cinematic doppelgänger were scenes of Mac phoning home and riding a bicycle across a night sky even so, it made me wonder if a copyright infringement lawsuit was ever drawn up by Spielberg’s lawyers and presented to the responsible parties. the Extra-Terrestrial, with a young boy named Eric befriending an alien life form named Mac (an acronym for ‘Mysterious Alien Creature’, or more appropriately, ‘McDonald’s Ad Campaign’) and getting into all sorts of riotous and life-threatening misadventures.
Good lord, what a sorry excuse for a message film! What a sorry excuse for a film! This was nothing more than a shameless pilfering of E.T.
Well, ‘fun’ it was not, as I so regrettably found out. This scene, from a family sci-fi fantasy film titled Mac and Me, would always elicit a hearty round of laughter from the audience members and host, and when I later discovered it had a bottom-dwelling 0% rating at the Rotten Tomatoes aggregate film review site, I decided it was high time I got in on the fun as well. Rado, Danny Cooksey, Nikki Cox and Jennifer Aniston (as dancers, apparently), and Squire Fridell as Ronald McDonaldĪ while back I’d read that whenever comedic actor Paul Rudd would appear on a certain late-night talk show to promote his latest film, he’d surprise everyone with a different clip, one showing a wheelchair-bound boy careening off a cliff edge and plunging into a lake. Written by Stewart Raffill and Steve FekeĬast: Jade Calegory, Christine Ebersole, Jonathan Ward, Tina Caspary, Lauren Stanley, Vinnie Torrente, Martin West, Ivan J.