Friday, June 6, 2014

Mac and Me (1988)

How bad is it? It's essentially a commercial for McDonald's.
Should you see it? No.


Bill Cosby starred in the terrible children's film "Leonard, Part 6" which appalled critics with its endless product placements. That film was a restrained masterpiece compared to "Mac and Me." This film stars a rather good child actor with spina bifida in his only film who encounters a loveable alien... and then it goes exactly as "E.T." did years earlier. One of the problems with this film is that the supposedly cute alien is not cute (though it's better than its family, with which it must be reunited). The "MAC" of the title is supposedly an acronym, "A" for Alien, but one cannot help but think of "Big Mac" as McDonald's is everywhere in this film. Ronald McDonald even has a role. The film states that a percentage of its profits would go to the Ronald McDonald House. There's product placements for Coca-Cola and other companies, but you could start the film with an order of fries, eat one each time there's a McDonald's reference, and not have them get cold before you're done. Look for Nikki Cox in an uncredited cameo as a dancer in this, her first film.

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