When you think back to movies that shaped your childhood, one of the movies you probably think of is Stephen Spielberg's "ET: The Extra-Terrestrial". As one of the highest-grossing movies of all time, you'd think there'd be little for this movie to improve on. After all, it had great creature-effects for its day, and there's no reason at all for a director to go back and add a bunch of unnecessary CGI-effects to an old movie, right?
Wrong.
Like George Lucas before him, Spielberg takes a crack at sullying all your nostalgic childhood memories with the DVD version of "ET: The Extra-Terrestrial". From added CGI-scenes featuring ET's antics to digitally replacing guns with walkie-talkies, Spielberg goes out of his way to remind everyone that children are idiots, and the things that they love are usually stupid.
After wandering away from the spaceship while on a field-trip, hapless space-traveler E.T. meets whiny-kid-with-father-issues Elliot, and the two forge a bond so powerful that it transcends all suspension of disbelief. Elliot shows E.T. the in's and out's of Earth life, and in return E.T. gets Elliot drunk for the first time. But when E.T.'s homesickness reaches life-threatening severity, the two must join forces with the local highschool's Audio/Visual club on a pulse-pounding bicycle chase to freedom!
Join Shawn and Keith of "Cinester Theater" as they take on this heart-warming tale of love, understanding, and keys. Lots and lots of keys.
NOTE: This iRiff seems to suffer from the same synch-line issues that our "Back to the Future" riff did. Still not sure what keeps going wrong (we think it has something to do with how we render the track into an .mp3 file), but once again, the sync-lines come a second after the character in the movie says it. Sorry about that, and thanks for your understanding!
Really solid riff. Nice to see them mock such a classic. Especially now that it has been altered by Steven.
This "classic" does not hold up very well with age and it deserves to be riffed.
Very funny iriff! The voice work is top notch.... love the voice that you all used for the alien.
Wow! A Hilarious riff - definately recommended!
The gang of Cinester Theater put together another set of good riffs for this riff track. There's a lot of funny lines, and a good variety of riff-tactics. I would note that the riff track does deserve the "explicit content" rating, and some might find that a bit much for a movie which is *kind of* a movie for kids. But people with a good memory might remember that the movie itself got a lot of flak from some parents for some of the language which popped up in this kids movie. ___p___
One downside of this riff track for me (personally) is that my own memory is fading. I don't remember the original movie as much as the guys in Cinester Theater do, so all the riffs which compare the original theater release to this newer version are completely lost on me. But, well, that's a problem with my memory now, isn't it? What can I say? I only watched the original movie once or twice, and that's back when it first came out. Happily Cinester Theater also have plenty of riffs which don't depend on good memory of the original movie!
This is a very funny riff of a highly over-rated movie. Cinester just keeps pumping out the great riffs.
By far the funniest iRiff I've seen, and definitely one of the funniest riffs altogether. It proves that there's plenty to mock even in the best movies.