The Japanese laserdisc of the movie where one of the scenes is shown the police accidentally shot Eric, then Mac and his family saved Eric by removing the bullet and healed him wasn't from the final cut.On a 13 million dollars budget, it made 6.4 million dollars. It gained a 7% on Rotten Tomatoes with a 38% audience score and 3.4/10 on IMDb. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), as well as its elaborate product placement of McDonald's and Coca-Cola, and flopped at the box office. Mac and Me was universally panned by critics and audiences alike, partly due to plotlines similar to E.T. ripoff Nukie, and can be so bad, it's good. It at least holds up better than fellow E.T.The aforementioned supermarket explosion does admittedly look very spectacular.Casting someone who was actually disabled in real life (Jade Calegory was born with spina bifida and uses a wheelchair as with his character) in the lead role was something very rarely done in Hollywood films of this era and it also avoided the Inspirationally Disadvantaged trope.The soundtrack is pretty good, which was composed by Alan Silvestri, even if a lot of it seems to have been copied from Back to the Future (even though it was composed by the same composer.).The infamous scene of Eric falling off a cliff into a lake is unintentionally hilarious, and has been parodied many times in the years since.In addition, Michael's line 'He's gone?' is poorly dubbed in over his original line 'He's dead?' if you listen carefully, you can hear both clips of 'He's dead' and 'He's gone' play at the same time. The new ending was shot incompetently Eric's unconscious (dead) body was added as a cutout, which clashes horribly with the film.

In that ending, a cop accidentally shot Eric dead, which makes more sense than having him killed by the explosion, but is far more disturbing.

The originally-filmed ending was even worse.

(even if they do switch things up a bit by having the young boy as the one who seemingly dies, instead of the alien). What's more, this somehow kills Eric despite him being nowhere in the building, leading to MAC and his family bringing him back from the dead, in another story element blatantly ripped off from E.T.

Ridiculous ending, where a stray bullet from the cops hits a petrol pump near a supermarket and somehow causes the whole supermarket to blow up.

Janet (Eric's mother) is an unlikable character, as she frequently blames Eric for anything bad happening around the house, even though he's wheelchair-bound.

Poorly attempted humor, which is nothing but fart jokes and couch gags.

Incredibly wooden acting from the human characters.

There's also product placement for Skittles, Coca-Cola, and Sears. In fact, the name 'MAC' could be a reference to the Mcdonald's signature sandwich, the Big Mac.

There's even a five-minute dance sequence inside a McDonald's restaurant complete with a cameo of Ronald McDonald starring as himself.

The film is infamous for its huge product placement for McDonald's.

The aliens' costumes look absolutely hideous.

When Eric falls into the water in one scene, you can obviously tell it's a green screening when MAC pops up from the foreground. the Extra-Terrestrial, even ripping off the working title for E.T., ' E.T.

First and foremost, the entire film premise is a complete rip-off of E.T.

2 Why It's Nothing More Than One Giant AdĪ young extraterrestrial, separated from its family and stranded on Earth, finds friendship with a boy in a wheelchair.

It was also nominated for Worst Picture at the 9th Golden Raspberry Awards, but it lost to Cocktail. The film has a cult status over the years and has been called one of the worst films ever made. Together, they try to find MAC's family, whom he has been separated from.

Mac and Me (aka MAC and Me) is a 1988 American science fiction adventure film co-written (with Steve Feke) and directed by Stewart Raffill about a 'Mysterious Alien Creature' (MAC) that escapes from nefarious FBI agents and is befriended by a boy who uses a wheelchair due to a spinal condition.

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