Rewatching Mac and Me reminds me of what a terrible (but so-bad-it-is-good) movie it is. He said it reminded him of something…I don’t know what police shooting at aliens could remind a middle schooler of, but it was a memorable experience. I didn’t choose to see the movie and saw it at a sleepover…where my friend started sobbing uncontrollably during the film.

I saw Mac and Me not long after it came out on video. The film won Razzies for Worst New Star (Ronald McDonald) and Worst Director with nominations for Worst Picture and Worst Screenplay and was also featured in Mystery Science Theater-Season 12 (called MST3K: The Gauntlet) on Netflix.Īin’t no party like a McDonalds dance party…and the fact no one is concerned that there is someone dancing on the now completely un-sterile counter The movie gained a cult following over the years. The movie was a critical and financial failure. Teamed with his brother Michael (Jonathan Ward) and his neighbors Debbie (Lauren Stanley) and Courtney (Tina Caspary), Eric and Mac are on the adventure of their lives…if Eric and Michael’s mother Janet (Christine Ebersole) doesn’t ground them.ĭirected by Stewart Raffill, Mac and Me is a family science-fiction adventure film. Eric (Jade Calegory) discovers Mac and now must keep Mac out of the hands of the government who is hunting him.

When the family is split up and their youngest child becomes lost, he finds the Cruise family as they move to California. A NASA ship accidentally sucks in an alien family and rockets them back to Earth.

Mac and me review 1988