E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

Steven Spielberg has done it again. He has created another instant American classic.

E.T. is ultimately a tale of love, and the film becomes a cathartic leap into pure feeling. [2002 re-release]

We're told that this new version is tweaked and enhanced, with the E.T. puppet digitally smoothed out, and the guns in the meanies' hands removed (silly, but bravo). [2002 re-release]

Spielberg has always demonstrated extraordinary aptitude for filmmaking, but "E.T." is far and away his most satisfying work to date. He knows how to transform the raw material of his childhood into an appealing popular fable. There are sequences that touch you to the quick in mysteriously casual ways

"E.T." is as contemporary as laser-beam technology, but it's full of the timeless longings expressed in children's literature of all eras.

Spielberg has always shown a penchant for overt manipulation, but nowhere is this more obvious than in E.T., where he pulls out all the stops in an effort to bleed tears from the eyes of every audience member. It doesn't take a cynical nature to recognize what the director is doing. [2002 re-release]

The story itself holds up fairly well though, twenty years later, does come off as thinner than I recalled. [2002 re-release]

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial là phim viễn tưởng cảm động về tình bạn giữa cậu bé và sinh vật ngoài hành tinh bị mắc kẹt.

Another pretty good Spielberg film with good acting though the ending is quite silly.

I can definitely see the appeal of E.T. and the nostalgia of it. But, as a child of the 90s, I never saw E.T. until I was older. It is not my favorite Spielberg film, but is definitely worth the watch.

This 1982 fantasy, sci fi, family, adventure film is one of them films that never really grabbed my interest but seen it enough times. I'd say the only good bits are the flying bikes and the bike scenes at the end. The rest is kind of tacky, lazy and boring and certainly most of this film drags on and is boring and the alien named E.T. looks faker than Michael Jackson's plastic surgery and he talks and is leprechaun sized. The kids even treat him as a friend and human being and help him get back home to his planet. One of the worst films ever made but some may enjoy it but certainly not me.... Stars Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore... Directed by Steven Spielberg.

This film, seen when you are a child, remains positively impressed but if you see it when you grow up it can create repulsion. The story is very banal, the alien aesthetically **** and the film is full of clichés. I prefer a more adult science fiction. One of the worst Spielberg's movies.