![]() ![]() There is a glimpse of Reese’s Pieces, the confectionery brand that made a killing when M&Ms turned down the chance to be featured in the movie.ĮTis also seen reviving a bunch of wilted flowers with one wave of his leathery hand. Elliot’s children scream when they find ET, and the alien screams along with them. The commercial amounts to a greatest hits parade of rehashed moments from the film. Elliot has a wife and two children, and is apparently unscarred by having ridden through the night sky on a flying bicycle at the age of 11 to escape the clutches of sinister government forces. In a 1996 short story, the critic David Thomson imagined that the boy, bereft by the departure of his intergalactic BFF, would go on to a life of aimless alienation full of drugs and weightlifting. Whether ET has aged is harder to say since he was as wrinkled as a wizened crone to begin with.Īt the start of the advertisement (no, we’re not calling it a sequel), the alien’s ship lands in the back garden of the house where Elliot now lives. Imbecilic PR statements aside, Thomas looks in pretty good shape for 48. “The audience is going to get everything they want out of a sequel without the messy bits that could destroy the beauty of the original and the special place it has in people’s minds and hearts,” Thomas says, displaying a touching eagerness to come out with any old guff so long as the cheque from Comcast has cleared. ![]()
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