Much before the yucky bugs of MiB and the tentacled monsters of I-Day, there was the cute, obsidian, telescoping necked ET of ET. And Steven Spielberg emphasizes the point that he is the baap! This movie is cute and humane (or maybe alien-ane) even after 20 years. That's two decades or one-fifth of a century. And considering the number of advances technology has made meanwhile... hats off, Spielberg!
There have been technical improvements made to this updated version. The way the ET moves is much better than in the original. And so are some of the levitation scenes. The whole thing look....