The film had originally been meant as a vehicle for Wolfgang Petersen (to whom one of the character’s names is dedicated) after the success of his The Neverending Story the year prior. The film is very much in keeping with the notion that our first contact will be with technologically advanced, benevolent beings who mean no harm, though Dante goes further by showing the protagonists that the threat of contact will not come from the aliens, but by humans who fear the things they do not understand, going through montages of films and television transmissions that explore those very issues in our science fiction. Another Spielberg-ian family film from director Joe Dante, although unlike his previous film, Gremlins, it isn’t produced by Steven Spielberg’s production house, despite it being obviously influenced in its wide-eyed sense of discovery, optimism, and sentimentality toward alien contact by E.T. and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
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