This film has often been compared to E.T. Yes, it is like E.T. but better than E.T. When I watched this film when I was a kid, I thought it was better than E.T. Now that I am an adult, I still believe it is better than E.T.

This is a coke advert masked as a remake of E.T. I wasn't expecting to find a disabled boy being blown up by the police and then brought back to life by Aliens that live off of our favourite name-brand brown fizzy liquid so funny, but i did. I have to wonder, what is the director doing now?

That's right folks! That's why our cute little alien buddy is spelled "Mac" instead of "Mack." There's even have a scene where we get to see a crowd of young adults singing & dancing in a McDonald's restaurant while Mac is attempting to escape some men-in-black! Mac and Me is the ultimate product placement movie! Sheer evil genius! I lost track of how many times they mentioned something about McDonald's in this film. It's so pervasive Mac and Me should be considered one long commercial and it should have been free to watch when the film was released! On a more somber note. This could have been a great movie. Sure it's an E.T. carbon copy. But so what! You could tell somebody was trying hard to write a meaningful story. What a shame! Too bad corporate backed insanity won the day!

I invite you now to share in my pain as I relive "Mac and Me: The Longest and Worst Skittles/Coke/McDonald's Commercial Ever Made", also known as, "E.T.: The Cheap Knock-off Version".Our crappy film opens on an alien planet as a family of poorly-designed alien creatures use straws to drink carbonated soft drinks from the soil of their planet (more on that later). The arrival of an American space rover prompts the curious alien family (mom, dad and baby) to investigate, whistling and over-acting demonstrably until they are vacuumed into the ship and carried back to earth. Upon arriving on earth, the baby - Mac - is quickly separated from his creepy family and, after a madcap chase, lands in the back seat of a van carrying our story's hero, Eric, and his family.Eric is a teenage boy in a wheelchair. It is never made clear what is wrong with Eric's legs, but it is likely that his growth was stunted by his exclusive diet of Skittles, McDonald's and Coca-Cola. Before I get negative, I must give credit where it's due: The filmmakers were extremely diligent in making sure all Skittles and Coke products were clearly facing the camera at all times.Quick back story: Eric, his mother and his older brother (Michael, just like in E.T. - they didn't even bother to come up with a different name. How about Jeff? Ronnie? Come on, that's just lazy. I swear I have spent more time writing this review than the screenwriters spent on this script) have just moved from Ohio into Elliot's E.T. neighborhood in California because Eric's mom took a job at Sears. A history lesson for the youngsters: back in the 80's a lot of people moved their families across the country to take minimum wage jobs at department stores (citation: Grapes of Wrath). They moved because Eric's dad died or something. (And I'm not making this up: At one point Eric looks somberly at a picture of his dad, and NOT ONLY does his dad straight-up look like The Most Interesting Man in the World, there's a Dos Equis umbrella in the background of the picture. Best part of the movie, hands down.)With that, let me pause to address the reason we're all here today: The scene in which Eric rolls off a steep cliff into a pond in the family's backyard. In context, Eric is searching for Mac, then Mac saves him after he plummets off the 50-foot cliff. What you haven't seen is the following scene in which Eric's mom and the doctor both assume he was trying to commit suicide and the doctor hands Eric a bottle of anti- depressants. For real.Anyway, Eric and his next-door neighbor (and token Drew Barrymore Stand- In) Debbie discover Mac and use Skittles and Coke to befriend him, then bring Michael in on the secret as they try to find a way to get Mac back to his family while evading NASA. Every time Mac gets hurt or knocked unconscious, the children scramble to get him a Coke because as Debbie says, "That must be what they drink on his planet!"About an 75 minutes into the movie, our heroes go to a McDonald's for a birthday party which morphs into an all-out dance competition (as was common in the 80's). Dozens of dance crews clog the parking lot, popping and locking all over the place. One crew is dressed like the San Francisco 49ers. The children have disguised their alien friend by putting him inside a teddy bear's skin and he gets in on the action by dancing Pee Wee Herman-style on the McDonald's counter. It is terrible and amazing.Having reached the point in the movie where it's time to recreate the chase scene from E.T., NASA thugs show up and McDonald's and chase Eric and Mac through the streets. And while Eric is on wheels, rolling full- speed down steep hills and skitching onto the back of speeding trucks, the NASA guys somehow manage to keep up on foot. I swear they run five miles at speeds upward of 50 miles an hour. They get to Sears, meet up with Michael and the family van and finally head into the desert to reunite with Mac's family. Debbie shamelessly drops another candy commercial, "Here, see if Mac likes these Skittles." *Passes the Skittles across the van, very slowly in front of the camera* Big shock, Mac likes Skittles. Already knew that. Sloppy writing. Anyway, the kids find the dessicated ruin of Mac's family near an abandoned mine shaft and revive them with jugs of cool water. Ha! Just kidding, they use Coke products. After dark, the kids' and aliens' luck finally runs out when the authorities catch up with them at a supermarket. In the ensuing mêlée, a fire is started and Eric is blown up and killed in an explosion. The alien family emerges from the fire and engage in a singsongy ritual that brings Eric back from the dead. It is unclear why they didn't give him a can of Coke. Missed opportunity.Our movie closes with a joyous courthouse scene as our alien friends are sworn in as US citizens. The dad alien never stops moving. He's constantly undulating like some kind of low-rent community theater mime. I wrote in my notes, "It freaks me out and I hate it." That goes for the whole movie.