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Information
- Year
- 2014
- Runtime
- 91 min.
- Director
- Dave Green
- Genres
- Adventure, Sci-Fi, Family
- Rating *
- 5.8
- Votes *
- 3,132
- Checks
- 477
- Favs
- 13
- Dislikes
- 16
- Favs/checks
- 2.7% (1:37)
- Favs/dislikes
- 1:1
Top comments
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KuroSawWhat
If you remember the golden age of family sci-fi, with films such as Flight of the Navigator, D.A.R.Y.L., or Explorers, then you will find yourself in fine company with Earth to Echo! At my showing, the kids and the adults were all jumping at the scares and laughing at the funnies in unison--just as it should be. Everyone was engrossed in the events happening on screen, from beginning to end. No watch checking. No restless youngsters.
This is a movie where the kids act like kids, the adults act like real human beings, and the creators were obviously having a rip-roaring good time in the process; a film that respects your intelligence and takes you on a truly wonderful journey (two things which the similarly-themed Super 8 completely failed to deliver, imo). It gave me something which few films have this year: A smile on my face as I left the theatre.
While Super 8 forgot its central premise--a group of kids making a movie--Earth to Echo keeps it front and center. If you've knocked around YouTube a lot, you've likely come across amateurish instructional videos and other things which are narrated by live typing things into WordPad, backtracking for corrections and all, and feature many other things which an adult would never begin to consider doing. That is the idea behind Earth to Echo, whose title screen is, yup!, typed in with WordPad; whose panning shots are done with Google Earth; whose whole production seems to come straight out of the mind of a 10 year-old. For once, that's a compliment!
Yes, the cute alien + kids concept has been done to death, but you have to respect a film which is created in such earnestness. Earth to Echo is a great movie, with or without the "kids/family" label. Go see it! 9 years 9 months ago -
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Jace Lightner
Heartfelt and genuine are the words that come to mind when describing this film. It has that flight of the navigator vibe and the actors were brilliant in their roles. 9 years 8 months ago