Henry Thomas has a tough role, acting against an non-human for the most part, but he excels in the part and the frog scene is still excellent. The Carlo Rambaldi special effects still stand the test of time and the voice mannerisms are just right. This is the classic kid's film of the 1980s, in which the adults are portrayed as either out of touch or the enemy it's the kids who have to band together to fight for justice, and the template works very well here. Yes, it's mawkish and rather dated, but I think that's all part of the fun. Well, I needn't have worried, because E.T. Finding myself less than impressed than Steven Spielberg's overt sentimentalism, I wondered how I'd find it as an adult. Everybody had seen it, everybody loved it, everybody could reference it with the other kids knowing what they were talking about.
THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL was one of those films that everybody took for granted as a child in the 1980s.
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