But on its own modest terms, the alien adventure “Earth to Echo” is a lively and likable knockoff that should divert, if not exactly enthrall, tweens and young teens.Logic hounds beware, however.

The thing the filmmakers did really well was make a movie they probably wanted to see when they were kids. “Earth to Echo” is an offbeat, funny, slightly edgy science fiction offering that ...

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 ...

A copy of a copy, “Earth to Echo” feels less like a weak “E.T.” than a substandard “Mac and Me.” And you may not even remember the latter, a 1988 bandwagon flop … ...

It's the third word in the title of "Earth to Echo" that is the operative one. Freshman director Dave Green's low-budget, high-upside film is nothing if not derivative, feeling at ...

One should view ‘Earth to Echo’ with a couple of qualifications. The first is, yes, of course, it’s like Steven Spielberg’s ‘E.T.’ in that a group of kids bond with a cute alien and ...

Earth to Echo is unsurprisingly, exactly as advertised. Owing a considerable debt to the golden age of “kid empowerment” movies of the ’80s, ...

"Echo" is more of an homage to "E.T." than a ripoff. "Barfing" is when cellphones start acting up. Echo communicates in sprightly chirps. "Earth to Echo" embraces Spielbergian nostalgia. Phone ...

'Earth to Echo' endeavoring to be the family film of a generation. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) ...

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 ...

If the children of today haven’t seen “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial,” they won’t notice how much “Earth to Echo” echoes the Steven Spielberg classic from 1982.

Alex (Teo Halm) encounters Echo, a small alien who has become stranded on Earth, in "Earth to Echo."Courtesy of Relativity Media (Left) ELLA LINNEA WAHLSTEDT (Right) TEO HELM and Echo a small ...