I was not sure what to expect from this film. Turned out to be caring and sensitive wanting to transmit a message that we can have friends for life, willing to be with us for everything no matter what, but is soft and cute side was not enough.
On Earth to Echo the best friends Tuck, Alex and Munch and their families will be forced to leave the neighborhood where they live, because all the houses will be demolished to initiate the construction of a highway. Tuck loves to make his own videos, filming the events of day-to-day. A few days before the move, all mobile phones in the area start to get weird with very strange images on the screen. Quickly the boys discover that these images are actually maps and on their last night together on the neighborhood they decide to leave on a great adventure! Meanwhile everything is constantly being recorded by Tuck's cameras.
The technique used to shoot was found footage and I am not exactly the biggest fan of the style. It's something that sometimes becomes annoying because the camera never stops, giving it the sense of a shaky movement. Since this film is more directed towards kids I don't know if it succeeds in that aspect. However, the special effects were very well done.
The performances of the young actors are a bit inconsistent. Sometimes I could actually believe their intentions, others don't. All had their ups and downs. The introduction of a fourth character, a girl who attends the same school as the three friends, seemed a little forced and unnecessary. I preferred if history had only maintained the three central characters.
The biggest problem of Echo to Earth is that it turns out to be a mix between E.T. and Super 8, which absolutely takes away all the originality. With all the adventurous part of the film it follows exactly the same path and plot of Super 8. When it comes to the emotional part of the story, is like E.T., where an extraterrestrial becomes a friend of a group of kids, but especially connects himself with one.
Echo is a character poorly developed. We only know that he is from space, but we don't know from where exactly. We are not sure why he is stuck on Earth and when he arrived and when we get to the end of the story there's an emptiness unexplained. I would love to have seen Echo more time on screen.
I can see many teenagers to having a good time watching this film, but I would not recommend it for children under 12 years maybe. I say this because the poster might lead many parents to deception.
pretty cute movie to watch with family I liked it
In this movie nothing make sense, the dialogs are ackwards by moments, doing 17 miles takes maximum 2 hours and they are going in the afternoon so it should be the evening after, no it's night.
And everything is like that in this movie, they can even breath underground, houses don't have foundations etc.
Each minutes of this movie I was asking myself WHAT DO THEY THINKING ?!
A (good) movie is seamless and if you don't understand what I mean by seamless, just take a watch.
Ugh its bad, like really bad. It is just the worst kind too... The story just went all over the place, lots of things make no sense, and is filmed from the perspective of children holding a camera. Its like they spliced together other movies of the genre and added just enough special effects to trick you with the trailer...
Solo fue interesante XP Nada del otro mundo
Pretty good film to watch my three kiddos (8, 8, 10).
If Abrams' Super 8 was a homage, Earth to Echo is bordering on blatant ripoff, both of the Abrams' film itself and of those 80s films Abrams was also referring to (specifically E.T. of course). All that was really missing were flying bikes. Even its one distinguishing feature, that of cameras carried by the cast to lend some semblance of authenticity to the story, has been done to death and the film can't overcome the inherent problem with films like this - why keep carrying the cameras when all hell breaks loose ? All that said, the central trio of children cast are likeable enough and do a good job of keeping the film watchable as the film progresses. For young children, this is probably fairly entertaining, for adults - make those children watch E.T. instead!!
Shout by BastianRueBlockedParent2015-11-01T17:14:33Z
Not sure what people are complaining about that nice little movie.
I liked it. No matter if there are some things not fitting right.
It entertained me enough to gave 7/10.