Earth to Echo can't shut up. Aiming to be Generation YouTube's answer to E.T., the directorial debut of viral video maven Dave Green is a 100-yard dash of youthful adventuring, close encounters, and warding off adults who just don't understand. Unlike its Spielbergian inspiration, the film's found footage conceit is impervious to hushed moments of maximum wonderment. Earth to Echo drowns in yammering and clunky direction, Green battling a camera controlled by three middle school boys to find any semblance of grandeur in his faux-documentary frames. But Earth to Echo packs a tremendous amount of heart onto that foundation. In this case, the parts are greater than the whole.
BFFs Alex (Teo Halm), Tuck (X-Factor rapper “Astro”), and Munch (Reese Hartwig) are about to say goodbye, their parents displaced by superhighway construction plans. In their final week together, the trio of scamps discover a mysterious signal emanating from Alex's house, pointing them to a middle-of-nowhere spot in the Nevada desert. It's the perfect excuse for one more all-nighter. With a camcorder, spy glasses, and anything else that can be used to film the action, the boys bike into the unknown hungry for discovery.
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