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E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 American science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg, written by Melissa Mathison, starring Henry Thomas, and distributed by Universal Pictures. The tape is based on an imaginary friend of the director himself, created after the divorce of his parents. In 1980, Spielberg met Mathison and they began developing the story, after the stalled Night Skies project.
Shooting in California from September to December 1981, chronologically for more convincing and emotional performances, the film had a budget of US$10.5 million and became a box office hit.. E. T. was the highest grossing film at the time, surpassing even Star Wars (1977) and only one other film directed by Spielberg stole the credit: Jurassic Park (1993).
Critics hailed it as a timeless tale of friendship and ranked it as the greatest science fiction film ever made, according to a poll by the Rotten Tomatoes website. It was re-released in 1985 and in 2002 to celebrate its 20th anniversary, with modified shots and additional scenes and with little affinity for the public, due in large part to the artificial incursion and CGI substitution of many of the shots where the alien appears.
Plot
The film opens in Crescent City, California, with a group of extraterrestrial botanists collecting vegetation samples. US government agents show up and the aliens flee in their spaceship, leaving one of their own behind in their haste. The scene shifts to a suburban California home where a boy named Elliott (Henry Thomas) plays the servant of his older brother, Michael (Robert MacNaughton), and his friends (K.C. Martel, Sean Frye and C. Thomas Howell).. When he goes to get the pizza, Elliott discovers the abandoned alien, who promptly flees. Despite his family's disbelief, Elliott leaves Reese's Pieces candy in the woods to lure him into his bedroom. Before he goes to bed, Elliott warns the alien by mimicking his movements.
The next morning, Elliott fakes illness to avoid school so he can play with the alien. That afternoon, Michael and his younger sister, Gertie (Drew Barrymore), meet the alien. His mother, Mary (Dee Wallace), hears noises and goes to see what is happening. Michael, Gertie and the alien hide in the closet, while Elliott assures his mother that everything is fine. Michael and Gertie promise to keep the alien a secret from his mother. Deciding that they will keep the alien, the children begin to wonder about its origin. He responds by levitating balls representing his solar system, and further demonstrates his powers by reviving a dead plant.
The next day at school, Elliott begins to experience a psychic connection to the alien. Elliott behaves erratically due in part to the alien's intoxication from drinking beer. Elliott then releases the frogs in a dissection class. As the alien watches John Wayne kissing Maureen O'Hara in The Quiet Man, by the psychic link, Elliott is provoked into kissing a girl (Erika Eleniak) he likes the same way. manner.
The alien learns to speak English by repeating what Gertie says in response to what she is seeing on Sesame Street and, at Elliott's urging, nicknames himself E.T. (for extraterrestrial). He enlists Elliott's help in building a device to phone home, by using a Speak & Spell. Michael begins to notice that E.T.'s health is failing and that Elliott is referring to himself as us. On Halloween, Michael and Elliott dress E.T. as a ghost so they can sneak out of the house. Elliott and E.T. ride their bikes through the woods, where E.T. successfully calls his home. But nevertheless, the next morning, Elliott wakes up to find that E.T. has disappeared, and returns home to his grieving family. Michael finds E.T. dying in the woods, and the alien takes Elliott's hand, who is also dying. Mary begins to freak out when she discovers her son's illness and the dying alien, formerly the government agents who had invaded the house.
The scientists create a medical facility in the house, quarantining Elliott and E.T. First E.T. is stable and Elliott dies, but then Elliott recovers and E.T. dies. The bond between E.T. and Elliott disappears when E.T. dies. Elliott is left alone with the motionless alien, when he notices a dead flower, the plant that E.T. had previously revived, come back to life. E.T. perks up and reveals that his people are coming back. Elliott and Michael steal a van that E.T. had been stored in and a chase ensues, with Elliott and E.T. joining up with Michael's friends in an attempt to evade the authorities on a bicycle. Suddenly facing a dead end, they escape by using E.T.'s telekinesis to rise into the air on the bike and flee into the woods. Standing near the spaceship, E.T.'s heart lights up as he prepares to return to his home. Mary, Gertie and Keys (Peter Coyote), a government agent, show up. E.T. says goodbye to Michael and Gertie, and before entering the spaceship, he says, "Elliott, I'll be right here," pointing his glowing finger at Elliott's forehead, then E.T. steps on the spaceship and return to your planet.
Cast
| Actor | Character | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Henry Thomas | Elliott | Nine-year-old lonely boy. He longs for a good friend and finds him in E.T. Elliott adopts the abandoned alien and forms a mental, physical and emotional bond. |
| Pat Welsh | E. T. | He almost doubled to the alien, although he also recorded sixteen other people and several animals to create the voice from E. T.: to Spielberg, Debra Winger, the cold wife of the creator of sound effects sleeping, a professor at the University of Southern California eructating, raccoons, seafood and horses.[chuckles]required] |
| Robert MacNaughton | Michael. | Elliot's older brother, sixteen. Play football. |
| Drew Barrymore | Gertie | Little, naughty sister of Elliott. At the age of six, Gertie is sarcastic and although at first he is afraid of E. T., he gradually becomes incarnated with the alien. |
| Dee Wallace | Mary | Mother of Elliot, Michael and Gertie. Recently separated from her husband and, at first, not knowing that her children have hidden an alien at home. |
| Peter Coyote | Keys | Government agent. His nickname is due to the keys hanging from his belt. He tells Elliott he's been waiting to see an alien since he was ten. |
| K. C. Martel | Greg | Friend of Michael |
| Sean Frye | Steve. | Friend of Michael |
| C. Thomas Howell | Tyler | Friend of Michael |
| Erika Eleniak | Elliott classmate | Elliott kisses her in class |
After working with Cary Guffey in Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Spielberg knew he wanted to repeat the experience of shooting with children in E. T. More than three hundred children went to the casting to play the protagonists of the story. It was Robert Fisk who proposed Henry Thomas for the leading role and, although he appeared dressed as Indiana Jones, the actor did not did a good test. But then he remembered the death of his dog and began to cry.It was that impromptu act that made Spielberg choose Henry to play Elliot.For the role of Michael, Robert MacNaughton auditioned eight times. Even some along with applicants to play his older brother in fiction. Drew Barrymore impressed the director by assuring him that she was leading a punk band at the age of six and decided that she would be Gertie.Interestingly, this filming convinced Steven Spielberg that he was ready to be a father.
Elderly Pat Welsh smoked two packs of cigarettes a day while living in Marin County, California. Her voice appealed to the film's sound effects creator, Ben Burtt, and they dubbed the endearing alien in nine and a half hours. He was paid $380 for his work. But they decided that using the sounds of sixteen other people and animals for the E.T. character: Spielberg, Debra Winger, Burtt's wife sleeping, a film professor from University of Southern California burping, raccoons, sea otters and horses.
Spielberg felt it would be unnatural for actors to play the doctors who save the alien on medical technicalities. Therefore, he decided to hire real doctors from the USC Medical Center.
Harrison Ford made a cameo appearance in the film as Elliot's director. In the scene, Ford berates Elliot and the boy's chair begins to levitate. Meanwhile, E.T. was levitating his telephone equipment up the stairs with Gertie. But Spielberg decided not to include this scene in the film.
Production
E.T. was a friend who could be the brother I never had and a father I didn't feel like having any more.Steven Spielberg
After his parents' divorce, Spielberg filled the void with an imaginary alien companion. During 1978, Spielberg announced that he would shoot a film titled Growing Up , which would be shot in 28 days. The project was canceled due to delays in 1941, but the concept of making a short autobiographical film about his childhood would remain with Spielberg. He also envisioned a sequel to Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and began developing a mysterious project he had planned with John Sayles called Night Skies, in which malevolent aliens terrorize a family.
However, the amazing similarity of the plot of the film should be highlighted, with the work of the writer Marcela Paz titled Papelucho y el marciano (1968); including the name of the alien, called Det, in the work of the cited author.
Filming Raiders of the Lost Ark in Tunisia bored Spielberg, and memories of his childhood creation resurfaced. He told screenwriter Melissa Mathison about Night Skies , and she developed a sub-plot of the failed project, in which Buddy, the only friendly alien, befriends an autistic boy. Buddy's abandonment on Earth in the final scene of the script inspired the concept of E. T. Mathison wrote an early draft titled E. T. and Me in eight weeks, which Spielberg considered perfect. The script had two more drafts, cutting an Eddie Haskell-like friend of Elliott's. The chase sequence was created and Spielberg also suggested having the scene where E.T. gets drunk. Columbia Pictures, which had produced Night Skies, met with Spielberg to discuss the script. The studio approved it, calling it a ridiculous Walt Disney movie, so Spielberg approached the more receptive Sid Sheinberg, president of MCA.
Ed Verreaux created a $700,000 prototype for E.T., which Spielberg deemed unusable. Carlo Rambaldi, who designed the aliens for Close Encounters of the Third Kind, was hired to design E.T.'s animatronics. Rambaldi's own painting Women of Delta guided him in giving the creature its unique, extendable neck. The creature's face was inspired by the faces of Carl Sandburg, Albert Einstein and Ernest Hemingway. Producer Kathleen Kennedy visited the Jules Stein Eye Institute for an actual study of glass eyes. She hired Institute staff to create E.T.'s eyes, which she felt were particularly important in audience appeal. Four E.T. heads were created for filming, one as the main animatronics and the other heads. others for facial expressions, as well as a suit. Two dwarfs, Tamara De Treaux and Pat Bilon, plus 12-year-old Matthew De Meritt, who was born without legs, took turns wearing the suit, depending on the scene being filmed. Caprice Roth, a professional mime, full of prosthetics depicted E.T.'s hands. The final creature was created in three months at a cost of US$1.5 million. Spielberg stated that it was something only a mother could love. Mars, Incorporated found E.T. so ugly that the company refused to allow M&M's to be used in the film, believing that the creature would scare children. This allowed the Hershey Company the market opportunity for Reese's Pieces.
E. T. began shooting in September 1981. The project was filmed under the cover name A Boy's Life, because Spielberg didn't want just anyone to find out and plagiarize the plot. The actors had to read the script behind closed doors, and everyone on the set had to wear an ID card. Filming began with two days in a Culver City high school, and the cast spent the next 11 days moving between locations. of Northridge and Tujunga. The house scenes were shot on Lonzo Street. The next 42 days were spent at Culver City's Laird International Studios, for the interiors of Elliott's home. The cast shot in a red forest near Crescent City for the last six days of production. Spielberg shot the film in roughly chronological order to achieve a convincingly emotional cast performance of him. In the scene of Michael's first encounter with the alien, the creature's appearance caused MacNaughton to jump backwards and knock over the shelves behind him (which Spielberg had previously had unadjusted so they would fall off). In that same scene, Drew Barrymore entered Elliott's room and Spielberg told him if he wanted to scream, to scream freely when he saw E.T. He did so and finally the director left those first two original takes in the final cut. In the same way, Henry Thomas was the first actor to see E.T. and had to keep quiet with the rest of the cast so as not to ruin their surprise. The chronological shooting gave the young actors an emotional experience as they bonded with E.T., making the hospital sequences more poignant. Spielberg ensured that the puppeteers stayed away from the set to maintain the illusion of an alien real. For the first time in his career, he did not use a storyboard from the film, in order to facilitate spontaneity in the performances. The film was shot so that the adults, except for Dee Wallace, were never seen from the waist up. in the first half of the film, as a tribute to the Tex Avery cartoons. Filming was completed in 61 days, four days less than planned.
Former Spielberg collaborator John Williams composed the musical score for E. T. Williams described his challenge in creating a score that would garner sympathy for that strange looking creature. As with his previous collaborations, Spielberg liked each of Williams's songs and included them. Spielberg loved the music for the final chase so much that he edited the sequence to fit it.
Themes
Spielberg obtained E. T.'s story of his own parents' divorce; Gary Arnold of The Washington Post called the film essentially a spiritual autobiography, a portrait of the filmmaker as a typical suburban boy identified by a rare passion, mystical imagination. References to Spielberg's childhood occur when Elliott feigns illness by holding his thermometer next to a light bulb while covering his face with a heating pad, a trick frequently employed by the younger Spielberg. When Michael annoys Elliott, it echoes Spielberg's taunting of his younger sisters, and Michael's evolution from torturer to protector reflects how Spielberg had to take care of his sisters after their father left.
Critics have focused on the parallels between E.T.'s life and Elliott, who is alienated by the loss of his father. A. O. Scott of The New York Times, wrote that while E.T. "is the most obvious and hopeless foundling", Elliott "suffers in his own way from homelessness" (coincidentally, E.T. is the first and last letter of Elliott's name). The heart of the film is the theme of growing up. Critic Henry Sheehan described the film as a Peter Pan retelling from the perspective of a "lost boy" (Elliott): E.T. cannot physically survive on Earth, any more than Pan could emotionally survive in Neverland.; government scientists thus take the place of the Neverland pirates. Vincent Canby of The New York Times similarly observed that the film "freely recycles elements of [...] Peter Pan and The Wizard of Oz". Some critics have suggested that Spielberg's portrayal of the suburbs is too dark, contrary to popular belief. According to A. O. Scott: "The suburban setting, with unsupervised children and unhappy parents, broken toys and the brand of junk food, could have been straight out of a Raymond Carver story." Charles Taylor of Salon.com, wrote that "Spielberg's films, despite the way they are often characterized, are not Hollywood's idealizations of families and suburbia. Homes here bear what cultural critic Karal Ann Marling called "the marks of heavy use."
Other critics found religious parallels between E.T. and Jesus of Nazareth. Andrew Nigels describes the story of E.T. as "crucifixion by military science" and "resurrection by love and faith". According to Spielberg biographer Joseph McBride, Universal Studios appealed directly to the Christian market, with a poster evocative of Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam and a logo reading Peace. Spielberg responded that he did not intend the film to be a religious parable, joking: "I would never go to my mother and tell her: 'Mom, I made this film that is a Christian parable& #34;, what do you think I would say? She runs a kosher restaurant at Pico and Doheny in Los Angeles."
As a substantial body of film criticism has built around E. T., numerous authors have analyzed the film in other ways as well. E. T. has been interpreted as a modern fairy tale and in psychoanalytic terms. Producer Kathleen Kennedy noted that an important theme of E.. T. is tolerance, which would be essential for future Spielberg films such as Schindler's List. After being a loner as a teenager, Spielberg describes the film as a history of minorities. Spielberg's characteristic theme of communication is associated with the ideal of mutual understanding: he has suggested that the central story of alien friendship -human is an analogy for how real-world adversaries can learn to overcome their differences.
In October 1983, the Spanish science fiction writer Domingo Santos published a novel entitled The Pink Alien. He dedicated it to Steven Spielberg, arguing that his last film (E. T.) had many aspects in common with another novel by the writer, entitled The Visitor and published in 1965 (therefore, seventeen years before the feature film). The dedication also mentioned that said 1965 novel had previously been a film script that the writer never turned into a film. According to the writer, the adventures of the alien as he passed through planet Earth in Spielberg's film were very similar to those of the alien protagonist of that previous novel of his. Such suspicious similarities led him, not to denounce the filmmaker for plagiarism, but to publish the 1983 novel as a friendly revenge.
Reception
E. T. was previewed in Houston, Texas, where it received good ratings from viewers. The film premiered at the closing gala of the International Film Festival at the Cannes Film Festival in May 1982, and was released in the United States on June 11, 1982. It opened at number one with a gross of $11 million, and stayed at the top of the box office for six weeks. It fluctuated between first and second position until January. By the end of its film run, it grossed $359.2 million domestically. Spielberg earned $500,000 a day from his profit sharing. Hershey Company's profits increased 65% due to notable use in the film Reese's Pieces. The film was re-released on July 19, 1985, and grossed $40 million domestically. E. T. was released on VHS and laserdisc on October 27, 1988; to combat piracy, videocassettes were colored green. In the United States alone, VHS sales reached $75 million.
Critics hailed E. T. as a classic. Roger Ebert wrote: "This is not just a good movie. It's one of those films that sweeps away our caution and wins our hearts." Michael Sragow of Rolling Stone called Spielberg "Jean Renoir's space age... For the first time he has dedicated his impressive technical skills at the service of his deepest feelings." Leonard Maltin called it the best film of the year. George Will was one of the few who brought the film to the ground, feeling it with widespread subversive notions about childhood and science.
There were allegations that the film was ripped from a 1967 screenplay, The Alien, by celebrated Bengali director Satyajit Ray. Ray stated, "E. T. would not have been possible without my script for The Alien, being available throughout the United States in mimeographed copies.". Spielberg denied this claim, stating: "I was a kid in high school when his script was circulating in Hollywood." The Barcelona comic artist Joaquín Blázquez tried to prove, since the premiere of Steven Spielberg's film, that E. T. was a plagiarism of Melvin, a character he created seven years earlier for an American publication.
E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial has a 98% fresh rating on specialty website Rotten Tomatoes, making it the best review to a science fiction film on the site. On the website Metacritic it has a score of 94, rated by the website as "universal acclaim". In addition to the many impressed critics, President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan were moved by the film after screening it at the White House on June 27, 1982. Princess Diana cried after seeing the film. On September 17, 1982, the film was screened at the United Nations, and Spielberg received the UN Peace Medal.
The film was nominated for nine Oscars at the 55th Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Gandhi won this prize, but its director, Richard Attenborough, declared: "I was sure that not only E. T. could win, but that he would win. It was inventive, powerful and wonderful. I make more mundane movies." In addition, he won four Academy Awards: for Best Original Score, Sound, Sound Editing, and Visual Effects. At the Golden Globes, the film won in the category of Best Drama Film and Best Soundtrack; and was also nominated for Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best New Star Actor of the Year for Henry Thomas. The Los Angeles Film Critics Association awarded the film Best Picture, Best Director, and the New Generation Award for Melissa Mathison. The film won the Saturn Awards for Best Science Film Fiction, Best Screenplay, Best Special Effects, Best Music, and Best Poster Art, while Henry Thomas, Robert McNaughton, and Drew Barrymore won Young Artist Awards. In addition to his Golden Globes and Saturns, composer John Williams won a Grammy and a BAFTA for the score. E. T. was also honored abroad: the film won Best Foreign Language Film at the Blue Ribbon Festival in Japan, the Cinema Writers Circle Awards in Spain, the César Awards from France, and the David di Donatello from Italy.
In polls by the American Film Institute, E. T., The Extra-Terrestrial has been voted the 24th greatest film of all time, 44th most exciting, and the 6th most uplifting. Another AFI survey rates it as the 14th film with the best soundtrack. It is also part of the AFI's 10 Top 10 in the category of science fiction films, appearing in third position. The phrase E. T., telephone, home (E. T. phone home in original) was ranked 15th on AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes list, and 48th on Premiere magazine's list of Best Movie Quotes. In 2005, the film topped Britain's Channel 4 poll of the 100 Greatest Family Films, and was also listed by Time magazine as one of the 100 Greatest Films Ever Made., Entertainment Weekly called the film the eighth most soopy; in a 2007 film poll s and television series, the magazine declared E. T. the seventh best science fiction film work in the last 25 years. The Times also ranked E. T. as the ninth favorite alien in a film, calling him one of the most beloved non-humans in popular culture. In 1994, E. T. was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
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20th Anniversary Version
An extended version of the film, including modified special effects and remastered format, was released on March 22, 2002. Some E. T. shoots had annoyed Spielberg since 1982, because he didn't have enough time to perfect the animatronics. Computer generated images (CGI) were used, provided by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) to modify various footage, including ones of E.T. running in the opening sequence and seeing spots in the cornfield. The design of the spacecraft was also modified to include more lights. Likewise, scenes shot but not included in the original version were introduced. These included E.T. taking a bath, and Gertie telling Mary that Elliott went into the woods. Spielberg did not add the scene with Harrison Ford, feeling that it would change the film too drastically. Having become a father, Spielberg was more sensitive about the scene where guns-wielding federal agents threaten Elliott and his escaping friends, so he digitally replaced the guns with walkie-talkies.
At the premiere, John Williams conducted a live performance of the score. The new version has grossed $35 million in the United States, with a total worldwide gross of $793 million since 1982. The version 20th Anniversary was released as part of a two-disc DVD set on December 9, 2002; it was also packaged in a collector's edition with the original version. The changes to the film, particularly the escape scene, were criticized as political correctness. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone asks: “Remember the guns carried by the feds? Thanks to the miracle of digital technology, they are now brandishing walkie-talkies... Is this what two decades have done to free speech?" Chris Hewitt, magazine i>Empire, wrote: "The changes are surprisingly low-key [...] while ILM's E. T.'s CGI is used sparingly as a foil to Carlo Rambaldi's extraordinary puppet. The American animated television series South Park parodied many of the changes in the 2002 episode Free Hat.
Awards and nominations
The film won four Oscars: Best Music, Best Sound, Best Sound Effects, and Best Special Effects, and earned five other nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay (Melissa Mathison), for Best Cinematography (Allen Daviau) and for Best Editing. In addition, in 1983 he won the Golden Globe for best dramatic film.
- Oscar Awards
| Category | Person | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Oscar to the best movie | Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Melissa Mathison | Nominated |
| Oscar the best director | Steven Spielberg | Nominee |
| Oscar the best original script | Melissa Mathison | Nominated |
| Oscar to the best photograph | Allen Daviau | Nominated |
| Oscar the best soundtrack | John Williams | Winner |
| Oscar the best assembly | Carol Littleton | Nominated |
| Oscar the best sound | Robert Knudson, Robert Glass, Don Digirolamo, Gene Cantamessa | Winners |
| Oscar to the best edition of sound | Charles L. Campbell, Ben Burtt | Winners |
| Oscar for the best visual effects | Carlo Rambaldi, Dennis Muren, Kenneth F. Smith | Winners |
- Golden balloons
| Category | Outcome |
|---|---|
| Golden Globe to the Best Drama Film | Winner |
- Medals of the Film Writers Circle
| Category | Outcome |
|---|---|
| Best foreign film | Winner |
Continued
The film has not had a sequel, however, the project of this one has existed without actually being realized. At the time of the film's release in July 1982, Spielberg and Matthison outlined an idea for a sequel titled E. T. II: Nocturnal Fears (E. T. II: nocturnal fears), which would show how Elliot and his friends are abducted by evil aliens, for which they would attempt to contact E.T. However, Spielberg advocated against performing it, feeling that it "would do nothing but remove the original of her virginity".
Similarly, in 2005 it became official that actress Drew Barrymore and Steven Spielberg had discussed a possible sequel titled E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial: The Return (E. T., el extraterrestrial: el regreso), which also could not materialize and which was never seen again. talk. A sequel to the story was made in a book titled E. T. The Green Planet Book , which deals with E.T.'s life on his home planet.
On November 28, 2019, Xfinity released a four-minute commercial directed by Lance Acord, who called it a "short film sequel" to the original film, titled E. T.: A Holiday Reunion. The commercial stars Henry Thomas, reprising his role as Elliott, now an adult with a family of his own. The story follows E.T.'s return trip to Earth for the Christmas season, focusing on the importance of bringing family together. The commercial uses a practical puppet for E.T. himself. John Williams' score from the original film is mixed into the commercial. Spielberg was consulted by Comcast (parent company of NBCUniversal, which owns Universal Pictures) before production of the commercial began. A two-minute version was edited for Comcast's UK affiliate Sky UK.
Video games
E. T. had a video game created by Atari in 1982. In the game, you had to help E.T. find three parts of a phone in the middle of the forest, and meanwhile, you had to avoid a policeman who was removing the parts of the phone. phone, and a scientist trying to capture the alien. It had been released with great expectations by Atari managers, however the game was a resounding failure, garnered negative reviews and put the company's finances in trouble. For this reason the Atari company was closed. Thousands of cartridges had been produced but never sold, and to get rid of them, Atari buried them in a New Mexico desert. It is considered by critics as the worst video game in history. In April 2014 an excavation team recovered the remains, these were found in 2014, thus closing one of the most popular myths in the history of video games.
20 years later, with the release of the 20th Anniversary Edition, Ubisoft, NewKidko and Fluid Studios made another game based on the movie, this time trying to do all the missions chronologically to the movie. The game was releasing on PlayStation, PC and Game Boy Advance. The game did not take long to be heavily criticized, having a few comparisons with the Atari game.
In 2001, the company Kemco together with Universal Interactive, made a video game for the Nintendo GameCube called Universal Studios Theme Parks Adventure, in which they added thematic mini-games based on several classic Universal Studios movies, and among them, also there was one of E. T., in which the main character had to get on a bike, and help E. T. get back to his ship before he left. The biggest problem with this mini-game is that the bike constantly fell off, wasting time very often.
Other appearances
E.T.'s species makes a cameo appearance in the film Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999), in a Senate discussion where three aliens are seen off-camera of E.T.'s race. Since that appearance there have been theories that E.T. is a Jedi Master. This last theory has been contrasted with the fact that in the original film, there are several references to the Star Wars saga existing as a franchise in E.'s own universe. > T. This is seen, for example, when Elliott shows his toys to E.T. or later in the film, when a boy dressed as Yoda is seen at the Halloween party.
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