EARTH ECHOES MOVIE
Even with that, this movie is fairly average.almost good to be honest. It's clear that this is meant for the preteen to early teen demographic, I mean it was clearly designed as such. But I digress, this film isn't really as bad as it probably looked on paper, and when the first trailers came out. I think that, partly, this was meant as a tribute to Spielberg's classic and it just comes across like it's shamelessly stealing from it. Of course Echo's filmmakers could argue that their film was inspired by E.T and point out several differences in the way the story is present, like the found footage style, for example and probably get away with it.
To the point where I'm surprised Spielberg didn't sue for plagiarism. Of course the settings and the situations themselves are different but, by and large, the main plot points follow E.T almost down to a T. So they're in a race against time in order to get their friend on his way home. Things get complicated, of course, when they find out that the government is also after this alien and they fear they'd dissect their new alien friend alive to study him. Kids find alien who just wants to make his way home. Thematically this is pretty much a ripoff of E.T all the way through. Imagine if E.T and Super 8 had a baby and this would be what comes of that very weird and awkward tryst.
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