Jade? Jade?!? Isn't Jade a woman's name? I sure hope that's his middle name. There was probably a casting call for wheelchair bound kids, and the winner was the strangely named Jade Calegory. Although the film did have one redeeming benefit (some of the money it made would be donated to Ronald McDonald House, a worthy cause), you somehow wonder if the idea of starring a non-acting paraplegic child thespian was a good idea. Also, Ronald McDonald earned a Razzie award as "Worst New Actor". It was very painful to watch and it wasn't choreographed very well. I have that scene etched in my mind, with a bunch of hip 80's pre-teens dancing up a storm. I certainly remember that dance scene at the McDonald's at the time, shows like Kids Incorporated and Kid Videos, which were corny and cheesy kiddie shows with lip-synching rugrats with attitudes were quite popular then. However, the fact that it's a rip-off of one the most popular films ever made, has a horrible script that not even Denzel Washington could improve on, and is filled with product placements galore just makes the film absolutely horrible. Honestly, if you take Mac And Me as a kiddie film, it's not bad. This was one of them, and I'm quite surprised that Steven Spielberg didn't sue for royalties when this E.T. In a bad way! Back in the late 1980's, quite a few movies that were considered to be among the worst ever made were coming out to theaters.
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