The boy is named Eric Cruise and MAC (Mysterious Alien Creature) has still been hanging around their house causing mayhem and trashing the place. Once back on Earth, they escape from the NASA lab and the smallest one ends up hitching a ride in a van where a 12-year old boy in a wheelchair is also in. Some aliens stumble across the ship and end up getting sucked into it and are stuck as it makes its way back to earth. It starts out that NASA has landed a spacecraft on an unknown planet and is rummaging around for soil samples. So this movie is a nice combination of obviously E.T., but ALF and also a bit of Flight of the Navigator thrown in for good mix.
Mac and Me is also one of the first real instances of product placement in a movie and its combined partnership with McDonald’s – which is very evident in that notorious dance scene which we’ll get to in a bit.īrace yourself, we’re taking a deeper look at MAC and Me. Where do you even start with this movie? If you have never seen it, you are probably at least familiar with it thanks to Paul Rudd’s appearances on Conan O’Brien where he would constantly show the same clip when trying to promote one of his movies. It’s considered one of the worst movies ever made and was a box-office and critical failure. MAC and Me is a science-fiction comedy film from 1988 that tells the story of an alien creature who actually comes to earth and befriends a young boy in a wheelchair. What do you get when you combine McDonald’s, a beloved movie character, and an immense amount of product placement and put it on the big screen?
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