Mac and Me
by Stewart Raffill
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Actor: Christine Ebersole, Jade Calegory, Jonathan Ward, Lauren Stanley, Tina CasparyDirector: Stewart Raffill
Brand: EBERSOLE,CHRISTINE
Cinematographer: Nick McLean
Writer: Stewart Raffill
Editor: Tom Walls
Producer: Mark Damon
Producer: R.J. Louis
Producer: William B. Kerr
Writer: Steve Feke
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-04-12
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
DVD Reviews of Mac and Me
DVD Review: A Boy and his McDonald's Mascot
Summary: 2 Stars
"Mac and Me" isn't a good movie. This was a fact long before the internet perpetuated it with clips of the infamous wheelchair scene, causing many people to assume this conclusion without even seeing the whole film themselves, but for once, this isn't a bad thing. Still, it's tough to creatively criticize a movie that's been bashed from hell to breakfast like this one, but luckily, I have a personal complaint to elaborate on. You see, being the mushy kind of guy I am, I could have forgiven the shoddy acting, lackluster special effects, and shameless product placement if the movie had capitalized on its "a boy and his alien" premise...but, as you can tell from my rating, it didn't pull it off.
The story: accidentally abducted by a NASA probe, a family of aliens is separated from their son on earth; with government agents tracking him, "Mac" must forge a friendship with wheelchair-bound Eric Cruise (Jade Calegory) and his own family if he ever hopes to be reunited.
I'll admit it again - I'm a sucker for "child-and-their-strange-friend" stories. Movies and media like Lilo & Stitch, Dragonworld, Digimon Tamers, and of course E.T. found their way into my heart by such means, and even though the rest of the movie stunk to high heaven, a well-rendered friendship between Mac and Eric could have saved it in my book. Sadly, the movie doesn't even try: the extent of their kinship is Mac supposedly looking cute while Eric ignores all common sense in defending him, angrily claiming that Mac's not dangerous even after he's demolished his house for no reason and lured him to fall off a cliff. The entire alien family is like that: unintentional hilarity occurs at the end of the movie when Eric's brother Michael (Jonathan Ward, who'd voice Zak in FernGully - The Last Rainforest) repeatedly hollers "They're not gonna hurt anyone!" at the police, even after we've seen them cause a massive traffic accident and literally blow up anything they touch earlier in the film. With "E.T." having been released six years earlier, the audience is clearly expected to assume a similar emotional template and feel sorry for the aliens simply for being aliens...and yes, this feels just as lazy as it sounds.
Yeah, so that's it: Eric more or less just drags Mac around, feeding him Coke and Skittles, deciphering his weirdo clues as to where his family is, and trying not to let on that he's dealing with a poorly-articulated puppet. I wish there was something else to the film to redeem it, but even though it's more technically sound than most "worst-ever" movies, the story elicits blah-some emotional response at best due to scenes of actual peril being limited and all of the characters being illogical buffoons. My personal favorite of these is Eric's mother (Christine Ebersole, Amadeus), who seems pretty nice at first but goes off the condescending deep end when, after Mac's done his thing, she accuses her wheelchair-bound son of turning their home into an atrium overnight - actually assuming that he was capable of moving vast amounts of plants and rocks into the house and even sticking them on the ceiling. Director Stewart Raffil will never be remembered as a hero, but this really is something; how could he deliver a certified comedy of errors that's still so very emotionally numb? Again, the guy's not a genius, but he directed The Ice Pirates, after all - did he blow his creative wad on that one entirely?
As far as Coca-Cola and McDonald's pushing their products in this film, I think that aspect has been blown out of proportion by bloggers - save for the instance when Eric attempts to bait Mac by leading him to a cup of Coke via a trail of straws...which even I have to admit doesn't make sense. In all, "Mac and Me" isn't outright bad enough for me to include it on the list of worst movies I've ever seen, but it's still best left forgotten by everyone who enjoys halfway-decent cinema.
Description of Mac and Me
When MAC (Mysterious Alien Creature) is stranded on Earth, he meets ten-year-old Eric, and they become fast friends.Genre: Feature Film Family
Rating: PG
Release Date: 12-APR-2005
Media Type: DVD
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