Tango and Cash Technically this movie is pretty good - because it had $30,000,000 of funding. So of course the cinematography is well done, the music is excellent, the actors do the best they could have done with the script they were given. Even the aliens and the special effects look pretty damn good. Compare this with an 80s movie that doesn't hide the fact that it's trash - take "Blood Frenzy" for example. Blood Frenzy is 100% garbage and it's proud of it. A C-Movie that is terrible and cheap in every way, and was probably filmed in one day somewhere out in the desert.Now, back to Mac and ME. There's no way to get around the script - it's a turkey. A movie can only be as good as its script, simple as that. If Stanley Kubrick or Alfred Hitchcock had directed, it still would have been a turkey. The script is everything. The comments above have, if you like, been "divorced" from the two most repulsive facts regarding this movie: the ET rip-off, which is obvious, and the shameless product promotion. Not sure how much of the $30,000,000 came from Mickey Ds, Coca-Cola, and Skittles, but I imagine a large portion. These two unfortunate facts notwithstanding, it's not as bad as people say. My parting thought is that the scene when he falls over the cliff into the river is absolutely hysterical. See the movie just for that scene, it's unintentionally funny, which makes it even funnier.

jackwareingfilms IMHO Mac and Me is far superior to E.T. I can understand the obvious comparisons, but I just really loved Mac's interaction with his Mom and Dad, ALSO how their whistling communication could express the emotions they were feeling at a given time. I know I am in the minority about this, but I like the movie a lot.

TheMarwood Most of the budget was funded by McDonald's and Coca-Cola, but Skittles also gets in on the action about an E.T knockoff befriending a young wheelchair bound boy. Mac and Me truly fits the bill as one of the best bad movies of all time. Watch the filmmaker's souls evaporate into burger grease as an inexplicably random McDonald's dance sequence, with the big man himself Ronald, is thrown into the middle of the film. It's a movie written around product placement and cashing in on the success of E.T, but this shameless corporate shill of a film bombed a bloody death at the box office - but not before the filmmakers threaten the audience with a 'we'll be back' title card.

thesar-2 1. The drinking game I played for every product placement I saw in Mac and Me was over within 20 minutes when I nearly died of alcohol poisoning.2. If the Special Olympics were as hilarious as when wheelchair-bound Eric rolled uncontrollably down a hill, off a cliff and into a body of water, I'd be someone's sponsor just so I can see it for myself in person.3. No, no, McDonald's. The line "Why don't you stop by for a Big Mac?" was completely subtle.4. As were: "You know what I feel like?" – "A Big Mac?"5. Nice touch on the Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter overtones in the score…despite being a kid's movie.6. Jennifer Anniston's acting debut was Mac and Me. Later, she starred in Marley & Me. Is Murdering Me coming soon?7. It shouldn't have taken two times for Mac to be sucked hard for us to get the hint the writers were trying to tell us something.8. I usually try to avoid spoiling movies, but… E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. There you go.9. Mac gets stuck in a tree, dogs threaten to rip him apart and they cue the heart-felt music. I haven't laughed that hard since wheelchair-bound Eric plunged 50 feet into the water.10. Ironically, it does take a lot of coke to enjoy a feature like this.11. Code name: "One Hundred X-Ray?" Really?12. I waited the whole movie for the dance party inside and out of McDonald's and it was so worth it. Everyone was having a blast and I want my next birthday party there, too!13. Sometimes Mac can fly and sometimes he can control electrical objects, but when running from the suits, Mac chooses to ride on Eric's lap down another hill in his speeding wheelchair. ?? 14. Oh, and try not to be in tears from laughter after that chase scene's over.15. Skittles? Seriously? Stop.16. "How long have you been in lingerie?" might not be the best question to ask the most blatantly obvious sex offender working at Sears.17. There were more discounts in this movie than on McDonald's value menu. Like Discount Drew Barrymore, Discount Dee Wallace, Discount Henry Thomas….18. I'm probably taking the lines "I sucked him up…and then we blew him" way out of context.19. Traveling billions of miles for a three-minute rock collecting experiment might sound like a waste of NASA's talent and money.20. And how they missed the straws the aliens used for mud slurping should get at least one of them fired.21. But, the genius of getting the spacecraft across the galaxy in less time than it takes the Enterprise, would probably get someone a raise.22. Maybe Joe Arpaio saw this movie and that's why he is the way he is.23. The end taught me three things: Ronald McDonald is a real person, aliens can reanimate life but not fix dead legs and the MacFamily will be back. Or…so they promised before anyone actually saw this.24. The moral of the story is simple: You better be rooting for either the Chicago Bears (on WGN) or the Chicago Cubs while having a Coke. Only the weird neighbor roots for the Dodgers, but he probably eats at Burger King, anyways.