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Prominent film critic Leonard Maltin summed all this up in his popular film-and-video guidebook, saying the film was "more like a TV commercial than a movie."
("Mac and Me" director Stewart Raffill also won worst director that year.) It prompted the Razzie Awards to give their Worst New Star honor to Ronald McDonald for his appearance in the scene. However, that sequence had already won infamy back in 1989. The magazine also cites a dance number that takes place inside a McDonald's restaurant. The fact that the alien in the film only consumes Skittles and Coke helped land it on "Shortlist" magazine's "9 Most Blatant Uses of Product Placement in Film" list just last year. With Christine Ebersole, Jade Calegory, Jonathan Ward, Katrina Caspary, Lauren Stanley.The film you're remembering is 1988's "Mac and Me." You aren't the only one who remembers it, but most seem to remember it less fondly. Even so, you may prefer to give at the office and eat Italian.Īn Orion pictures release. And if you begin to find your ticket a dubious investment, you can always console yourself that part of the profits go to charity: the Ronald McDonald Houses. Raffill’s camera style is lively and mobile, the kid actors are cute: especially the hero (Jade Calegory), a charming, plucky and talented wheelchair-bound 11-year-old suffering from spina bifida. There are some nice things about “Mac and Me” (MPAA rated PG). They have Walter-Martha Keane eyes, herky-jerky moments, bee-stung mouths and the body consistency of flaccid taffy.īut perhaps we’re too harsh. These four aliens-all mechanized puppets-look as if they’ve been left under the warmer too. is Mac, but not, mercifully, “Little Mac,” though, in keeping with the spirit of things, perhaps the rest of his own family should be called Big Mac, Filet-O-Fish and Small Fry. And when everyone drops in under the golden arches, they are greeted by dozens of bouncing, beaming break-dancers-and Ronald McDonald himself, hugging children. They gobble down burgers while Mac slurps up Cokes, which allegedly resemble the life-giving liquid of his dying planet, Iapedus. Even more peculiar is everyone’s obsession with the McDonald’s hamburger chain, apparent mecca of this slice of California suburbia. There’s a heart-tugging thudder of a climactic twist: a patriotic alternative to E. Occasionally, the movie does try something new. Louis and writer-director Stewart Raffill, of the “Wilderness Family” series, can drag it out for the already-announced sequel.
Did we miss anything? Is there anything of Spielberg’s and Melissa Matheson’s left unlooted? There are two more young brothers, a feisty little girl, a dress-up scene, TV gags, a furious chase, mean-eyed government spies swooping and snooping around. There’s another attenuated outer-space tyke wandering wide-eyed through suburbia, another fatherless home with a blond mom. T.” in a sticky wrapper, left under the heater two hours too long.Īlmost everything in the earlier movie has a double here. Originality lies smothered under special sauce and wilting on a sesame seed bun in the science-fiction kiddie show, “Mac and Me” (citywide).