The one upside is that Earth to Echo is a fine family movie that the majority of people are going to have fun discovering for the first time. Its DVD price is just a couple of bucks and in the ...

"My heart is beating so fast right now!" a character announces midway through "Earth to Echo." Well, it's nice somebody was excited. But when a movie has to resort to that — bulletins as to how ...

Echo, a metallic owlish creature hailing from a distant planet, has been stranded on Earth. A trio of 13-year-old boys armed with shaky cameras and plenty of plucky appeal embark on a saga to ...

“Earth to Echo” is no “Mac and Me”-level abomination, but it would have been better as a “South Park” episode. Watch Matt review the week’s big new movies Fridays at noon on NBC.

Reese Hartwig, left, Brian 'Astro' Bradley, Teo Halm and Ella Linnea Wahlstedt star in director Dave Green's family sci-fi adventure 'Earth to Echo.' (Patrick Wymore / Relativity Media) ...

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 ...

"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 ...

"My heart is beating so fast right now!" a character announces midway through "Earth to Echo." Well, it's nice somebody was excited. But when a movie has to resort to that - bulletins as to how ...

Earth to Echo might seem an underdog going up against blockbuster rock-'em sock-'em transforming robots, but if you ask producer Andrew Panay, his movie is right where it belongs this summer. "It ...

Overall, "Earth to Echo" is a clean movie that's appropriate for 7-year-olds up to teens. There is nothing really objectionable in the film.

'Earth to Echo' is trying to recapture a family-friendly style of action adventure that has been lost as movies become darker ...