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Earth to Echo doesn't do itself any favors by beggaring comparison to E.T., but for younger viewers, it should prove a reasonably entertaining diversion. Read Critics Reviews
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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 50% of 128 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.3/10. The website's consensus reads: "Earth to Echo doesn't do itself any favors by beggaring comparison to E.T., but for younger viewers, it should prove a reasonably entertaining diversion."
Earth to Echo: Directed by Dave Green. With Teo Halm, Astro, Reese Hartwig, Ella Wahlestedt. After receiving a bizarre series of encrypted messages, a group of kids embark on an adventure with an alien who needs their help.
- Dave Green
- 1 min
- WALL-E.T.
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By Matt Patches
Posted: Jul 2, 2014 7:10 pm
Earth to Echo can't shut up. Aiming to be Generation YouTube's answer to E.T., the directorial debut of viral video maven Dave Green is a 100-yard dash of youthful adventuring, close encounters, and warding off adults who just don't understand. Unlike its Spielbergian inspiration, the film's found footage conceit is impervious to hushed moments of maximum wonderment. Earth to Echo drowns in yammering and clunky direction, Green battling a camera controlled by three middle school boys to find any semblance of grandeur in his faux-documentary frames. But Earth to Echo packs a tremendous amount of heart onto that foundation. In this case, the parts are greater than the whole.
BFFs Alex (Teo Halm), Tuck (X-Factor rapper “Astro”), and Munch (Reese Hartwig) are about to say goodbye, their parents displaced by superhighway construction plans. In their final week together, the trio of scamps discover a mysterious signal emanating from Alex's house, pointing them to a middle-of-nowhere spot in the Nevada desert. It's the perfect excuse for one more all-nighter. With a camcorder, spy glasses, and anything else that can be used to film the action, the boys bike into the unknown hungry for discovery.
And they find it. Under dust and rubble, the boys find a small spacecraft carrying an action-figure-sized robot alien who looks genetically engineered to be the most adorable being in the universe. It floats, it bats its eyes, it baby coughs because it's all banged up, and it answers yes or no questions with a series of beeps.
The kids dub him “Echo” and vow to help the otherworldly being reconstruct his ship with pieces strewn about town. Writer Henry Gayden appeals to kids by turning Earth to Echo into a game. If the kids follow the signal trail, find all the pieces, and avert pursuing shadowy figures, Echo goes home and they win.
Earth to Echo is a simple, sentimental tribute to the glory days of '80s kid movies, but the adventure's derailed by the rigid qualities of found footage packaging.
91 minutes. Certificate: PG. Original Title: Earth To Echo. A family found-footage update of E.T. meets The Goonies sounds ominous. Earth To Echo, though, is delightful. Three young boys,...
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Jul 2, 2014 · After a construction project begins digging in their neighborhood, best friends Tuck, Munch and Alex inexplicably begin to receive strange, encoded messages on their cell phones. Convinced something bigger is going on, they go to their parents and the authorities.
