The makers of “Earth to Echo” said inspiration struck when they realized that if they updated the story of Steven Spielberg’s “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,” the youthfu… ...

Any movie about kids and aliens inevitably will draw comparisons to “E.T.,” but “Earth to Echo” also includes the friendship adventure of “The Goonies” and “Stand By Me” combined ...

"Earth to Echo" represents the worst of the old and the new. It has the bland child characters and the bad acting of an old-fashioned after-school special, not to mention a story lifted straight ...

‘Earth to Echo’: What the Critics Are Saying Dave Green's feature follows three friends, played by Teo Halm, Brian "Astro" Bradley and Reese Hartwig, and their new alien comrade as they embark ...

“Earth to Echo” is such a shameless “E.T.” rip-off that I picture excited dictionary editors rushing to their publishing plants screaming, “Stop the presses! All previous examples we ...

Why ‘Earth to Echo’ Moved From Studio to Studio The little indie pic that Disney didn't want soon will go up against "Transformers." ...

Earth to Echo Director Dave Green and I had a short chat about his upcoming (July 2) movie that takes us on a first-person look at first contact. The movie features an interesting film technique ...

From the get go, "Earth to Echo" was branded as a found-footage rehash of "E.T." This is no surprise, really, because the two films have a lot in common.

Earth to Echo is unsurprisingly, exactly as advertised. Owing a considerable debt to the golden age of “kid empowerment” movies of the ’80s, director Dave Green’s story of four friends who ...

Updating ’80s suburban science-fiction fantasy as found-footage storytelling for the smartphone generation, “Earth to Echo” feels like what it is — an attempt to pour old-school ...

It’s no “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.” (What is?) But on its own modest terms, the alien adventure “Earth to Echo” is a lively and likable knockoff that should divert, if not exactly ...