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| Universal Pictures | Release Date: December 18, 1987 |
Starring:
Dennis Boutsikaris, Elizabeth Peña, Frank McRae, Hume Cronyn, Jane Hoffman, Jessica Tandy, John DiSanti, John Pankow, Michael Carmine, Tom Aldredge
Summary:
Apartment block tenants seek the aid of alien mechanical life-forms to save their building from demolition.
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Not surprisingly, considering that it is a Spielberg production, Batteries Not Included is a handsome film, impeccably (and ingeniously) designed by Ted Haworth and enriched by a superb James Horner score that brings a melancholy tinge to its brassy big band sound. Batteries Not Included is in the best Hollywood tradition of raising serious questions in a thoroughly entertaining way.
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Cronyn and Tandy rescue the movie from looking altogether like a retread, and the saucers do their part, too. Designed by Industrial Light & Magic, the visual effects wizards, the saucers swoop and vibrate and blink and purr and even have children, which they assemble out of old toasters and other househood appliances. "Batteries Not Included" is a sweet, cheerful and funny family entertainment.
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FOR BATTERIES Not Included, intelligence is not required. [18 Dec 1987]
Children will at least be diverted. Adults, after they tire of trying to detect the hidden strings, are likely to find Batteries Not Included too manipulative to tolerate, but predictable enough that they can safely nap for long stretches. [18 Dec 1987, p.D1]
Rarely has a children's picture been so stagnant, so bereft of passion. [18 Dec 1987, p.8]
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