Mac and Me (PS/RPKG/DVD)

1988's "Mac and Me" is one of the all time best-worst movies. Part z-grade E.T. ripoff, part McDonalds/Coke infomercial; it truly has to be seen to be believed. It is also the type of film which could only have been made in the glorious 80's. Most bad movies have only one or two memorable scenes. "Mac and Me" on the other hand hits the ground running in terms of laughably bad set pieces and creative decisions somehow managing to top itself with each jaw droppingly bad scene. It transcends its obvious ineptness and badness to become something strangely watchable and entertaining but for all of the wrong reasons. The film has developed a passionate cult following over the years with one of its biggest fans being actor Paul Rudd. (Do a search on YouTube for some added hilarity in terms of his appearances on Conan O'Brien and how he manages to integrate Mac and Me into each one.)"Mac and Me" celebrates its 30th anniversary by getting a collector's edition blu-ray release courtesy of the fine folk at Shout Factory. The film had only been available on bare bones DVD prior to this blu-ray edition.In terms of picture quality, the film unfortunately did not get a new HD scan for this release as Shout Factory had to use an existing HD master provided by MGM. Presented in its original 1.85:1 aspect ratio, the film looks pretty solid despite obviously being derived from an older HD master. Sporting a meaty bit rate staying in the mid 30's for the bulk of the 99 minute film, no compression artifacts are seen. Detail is a nice step up from the DVD release and everything overall looks good all things considered. While it would have been nice if Shout Factory had been able to do a new 2K scan for this release, the fact that "Mac and Me" is now on blu-ray is a bit of a minor miracle in and of itself.Audio is presented in 2 channel lossless quality sounding good with decent separation. English subtitles are included as well.Extras are as follows:NEW Audio Commentary With Director/Co-Writer Stewart Raffill And Film Historian Marc Edward HeuckNEW "That Little Mac In The Sky" – An Interview With Stewart RaffillNEW "Down To Earth" – An Interview With Songwriter Allee WillisOriginal TrailersTV SpotsStill GalleryYou also get newly commissioned cover art on the default side of the sleeve but the original theatrical poster art is included on the other side to give you an option in that respect. No slip case is included.Fans of this hilariously awful film should rejoice to finally have it on blu-ray. Featuring solid image quality and audio as well as a nice selection of informative extras, it is highly recommended for both fans and aficionados of so bad it's great cinema.

I love this movie I watched this all the time it my favorite movie of all time

Exactly as described. Perfect!!

Spoiler alert: Paul Rudd is not in this film. This commercial based on the film E.T. is phenomenal. My biggest surprise is the relevance to today's society. The way the Police respond to these aliens before the become legal citizens is very reminiscent of today's excessive police actions. As soon as they become legal citizens, everyone is on board with them and rushing to the ceremony. At the same time the lack of discrimination towards the wheelchair bound child is impressive. His mother automatically assumes that he brought the entire desert into his living room with no help before she woke up that morning. We do need more choreographed dance numbers in fast food restaurants in modern films, this seems to be gone in the wake of comic book movie oversaturation and one can only hope that the industry rebounds and we can get an anti-trans hip hop routine in a chick fil a in the next kirk Cameron blockbuster.

I recently read that "The Last Emperor" won the Oscar for best film of 1988, which had me thinking, did they realize that 1988 was the year the "Max and Me" was released?!?!?! I mean, a deep and transcendent film about a a chinese dynasty might be moving and all, but does the Last Emperor have spontaneous dancing at a McDonald's? Shameless product placement? An amazing script that was written one afternoon after a cocaine and Big Mac binge? Probably not. This movie changed my life and made me the man I am today and I would probably be have down in an abandoned pool had I not had the pleasure of experncing it. Cinamatic masterpiece.

This movie is terrible.I love this movie.After E.T. showed corporate executives everywhere that you could sell tons candy to kids if you put the candy in a movie they like, some cynical Hollywood people cranked out this pathetic E.T. rip-off mostly to sell kids Coke, McDonalds, and Skittles.While not quite up to the same high entertainment standards provided by  Plan 9 From Outer Space  or  Starcrash , Mac and Me is still one of my favorite bad movies. If you love unintentionally hilarious trash, you will love this movie. So many things about it are just so wrong. Why would a single mom move from Chicago all the way to California just for an in-store position at a Sears? How does she afford such a house with such a job? Why doesn't that house have a fence in the backyard if, as soon as the property line ends, it turns into a steep hill that goes straight off a cliff? If the FBI are trying to capture the alien using a giant metal cage, why would they bring it to the site in a normal sedan so the cage is hanging out of the sedan's open trunk?Many have already highlighted the wheelchair scene and the McDonalds dance contest (something I've been hoping would happen to me any time I've gone to McDonalds since seeing this movie, maybe I need to move to California) and those are truly wonderful bits of bad movie awesomeness, but I gotta give my two favorite moments to other scenes:First, when they finally locate Mac's family dying in a mineshaft and looking all the world like dead-by-starvation POWs (horrifying, no doubt, to any children actually watching this movie) only to have them revived via Coca-Cola.Second, the part later on when the cops get into a Mexican standoff with the aliens only to have the kid intervene right as the cops decide to fire, which for some reason makes the strip mall behind the aliens explode in a bigger fireball than the when the white house went up in Independence Day. I could not stop laughing at that. I must have replayed that scene five or six times when I first saw it.There are so many laugh out loud moments in this film. There's tons of crappy movies, but very few are actually worth watching. My only complaint is that the DVD is fullscreen (does anyone know if an Anamorphic WS edition exists?)."Mac and Me" is rare in that it is absolutely terrible, yet remains one highly entertaining film.

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Ich kenne diesen Film aus meiner Kindheit und ich habe diesen Film lange gesucht und bin sehr begeistert. Dieser Film ist auch, wie angegeben, in deutsch ausgestrahlt worden. Bin sehr zufrieden.

Un joli film, hélas, pas en version française, ce qui est dommage. Lorsque les films ou autres, sont vendus en France, on devrait bénéficier d'une version française, c'est la moindre des choses.

It was a gift

la calidad es aceptable no lleva subtitulo ,el audio castellano y ingles y un extra un poco escaso por tan poco dinero la puedes conseguir si te gusta este genero de película aun que tiene un pelin de fallo cuando pasa a otra escena se para y luego vuelve y tengo dos películas iguales y tiene el mismo fallo sera de fabrica.