What was the whole fascination with ripping off trend big blockbusters in the 80's? You have your Gremlins to your Ghoulies, and you have this treasure, Mac And Me, the poor man's E.T. I hate this movie with a passion! It's almost to the point of insulting my intelegence. Did they think that we would not recognize the similarities of it trying to be E.T. ? Geez....I think everyone needs to rent this and watch this, if you have never scene this disaster.
Basically, here is the outline of why this is such a ripp off of E.T:
1. boy finds an allien in a rural area, gives him a fucked up name
2.Alien is trying to find his way home, and trys to communicate.
3.the aliens family is looking for him, they search far and wide
4.the kid gets the alien hooked on sugar, in this movie, it was coke.
5. Boy tries to hide the alien from the world
6. alien finds his family
Ok...so now lets do an outline of why this movie is in no way like E.T., because, to the producers, Mcdonalds and MGM, this is nothing like E.T., it's diffrent( as they say it with a wink):
1. Sad, but true, they make the kid a cripple and pair him up with an obnioxious friend.
2.at one point, they take mack to mcdonalds, in a bear costume, where he dances on the tables
3. They family gets reunited due to the boys help, they become citizen of California, and drive away in a pink cadilac...................WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!
They really expected us to buy this shit?
If they really wanted to make a knock of of E.T., Why could'nt they produce a porno?...A porno with the same storyline, but the alien had three nuts.
They could have titled it.....E.T.: THE EXTRA TESTICLE.