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6 out of 7 people found the following comment useful :- Memorable moments, 2 June 1999 Author: Andrew Duncan James Critchley from Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England
This film has all the usual elements of the 'Alien Visitor' format and doesn't tax the viewer, but it is truly memorable in places. I haven't seen this film for a long time, yet I still laugh every time I think about H7-25 with his time reversal gadget, making his pursuers leap in and out of a helicopter. Bud Spencer as the sheriff looks and acts like he should have been in spaghetti westerns, yet this approach works beautifully, especially in the scene where the kid eats his sandwich. This film is just the thing to watch the day after a big night out. Sit back, stop thinking, be amused.
2 out of 3 people found the following comment useful :- Family movie, 17 April 2003 Author: irisilvi from Barcelona
I think is a sweet, tender and funny movie. Child is wonderful and Bud is genial. Remember scene fishing in the lake. And music is very correct and right. I think is a movie to watch all the family. Greetings from Barcelona
4 out of 7 people found the following comment useful :- Old Time favorite, 13 March 2005 Author: Kevin Duke (Duke_Rendar) from United States
This Movie has been a favorite of mine ever since I was a Kid. I recently got it on DVD (after losing the copy I had on tape 13 years ago) and it felt like being reunited with an old that hasn't been seen in over a decade. one of my favorite parts is when the Sheriff is fighting the Coast Guard guys in the supermarket (do they even call it that anymore?). I also like the music from the movie as a matter of fact I managed to find one of the songs and downloaded it. I don't know if anyone else has seen this but I think if anybody is looking for a classic comedy I would recommend that the checkout this movie even though it is an old movie.
charming, 11 November 2009 Author: reveley from United States
This is a kid's film from the late 70's. Strictly speaking, it is not a good film. But I've given it ten stars. One can view a film as a critic, and express a judgement; or one can simply grade it on how much enjoyment you got from it. Often these two things are very close together, particularly when one is assessing a film that was made recently.But in this case they diverge, for me, quite significantly. If you are looking for the godfather, raging bull, network or some other film that has been preserved for posterity by the library of congress, then this is not for you.There are quite a few slapstick fight scenes, which I tended to skip through, since they are a bit boring. A fair amount of the film can be a bit boring actually. It's a kids film.However, what makes it so enjoyable is firstly that it is blissfully surreal, and entirely lacking in pretension to be more than it is. The director absolutely loves to repeatedly play parts of a slapstick scene backwards, and then forwards, and then backwards again. This is appalling film-making; but he could care. It's for kids. This lends it an innocence, which is shared by all the characters. Essentially everyone but the sheriff is a child (although there's only one actual child with a significant role), and behaves as a child might behave in the circumstances. It views the world through the unselfconscious prism of a child's fantasy; from inside a fort made of cushions in the living room.If you enjoy feeling like a child again, then this might work for you.But, secondly, what ultimately makes it enjoyable enough to merit ten stars is that it is really quite touching. As I say, the only adult character is the sheriff, who very early in the film takes on the role of guardian to the central child protagonist, and spends the remainder of the film going to great lengths to take responsibility for a strange (i.e. not his own) child.The sheriff develops a profound affection for the child. He frequently picks him up, smiles at him, and so on. He generally assumes a parental role.In one scene, he rubs noses with the child.This scene made me wince. In 2009, for a large, bearded man to exhibit physical affection for a child that isn't his (possibly even one that *is* his) immediately provokes suspicion of pederasty. Clearly, this is very ingrained in me, since I winced.But the film was made in 1979; a more innocent time at least in that respect (although one suspects there were as many pederasts in 1979 as there are now, just not on the news).So, it was very heartwarming to see that dynamic; a dynamic that worked as well as it did because of the choice of actors for the sheriff and kid, and the fact that their performances were curiously 3 dimensional in an otherwise 2 dimensional film.The film reminded me what we (especially men, and possibly also children) have lost in this climate of hysteria over pedophelia. "Why did I wince at that scene?" I thought to myself. Clearly the film makers thought nothing of it.I remember when I was a child ( in the 80's - not that long ago) it was OK for people to pat you on the head, engage you in conversation and so on without anyone feeling awkward or concerned.It is a shame that the world in which this film was made has been replaced by one in which many parents are cautious even to let their kids outside.But this is a film in which kids play outside, and to the extent you are willing or able to participate, you can join in.
Great movie for the kids, enjoyable by the ones who... were kids sometime., 12 October 2007 Author: c_o_r from Spain
OK, everybody knows more or less what are all the movies of Bud Spencer about, so i'll not try to sell it as a masterpiece. But i still remember it as one of the favorite movies of my childhood. The story is the usual "E.T. meets all kind of humans, some of them very friendly, and others not so friendly", but made in the usual Bud Spencer style. Bud Spencer is the sheriff of a little town in USA, and has to fight with all the bad guys, army, etcetcetc. Funny as hell, the little "remote control" used by the kid was one of the most wanted toys of our times. I saw it recently, and... i still watch it with a smile, despite knowing that is far from being a good movie and also that it aged quite badly.
Sheriff and the Satellite Kid, 2 January 2007 Author: deelyte28 from United States
I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who loved that movie from my childhood. I've watched a lot of movies that featured Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill and I've always been a fan of theirs. Unfortunately, a website of theirs is in another language and it's really hard to track any of their movies down. If you like that movie check out the buddy movies featuring Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill. Awesome!!!!! I believe most of their movies are subtitled and seem to have a voice over. But nevertheless I enjoyed all of their movies. I happened to catch My Name is Nobody on cable the other day and I believe I seen Bud Spencer as one of the three guys who try to have Nobody take a basket that had a ticking bomb in it to the hero Jack Beauregard. I'm yet to catch up on all of their movies.
3 out of 6 people found the following comment useful :- Heartwarming, very funny movie., 23 March 2003 Author: tabonga2001 from Los Angeles, CA
Little Cary Guffey from Spielberg's "Close Encounters" plays here an extra-terrestrial kid who got beamed down on Earth by mistake, and meets with Bud Spencer who, as any good sci-fi cop, doesn't believe the kid and thinks he's only pulling his legs. He will make up his mind pretty quickly, and will side with the little kid, while the army tries everything to snatch the alien. The story offers many standard moments for Bud Spencer's punch-fight trademark scenes, and even if very naive, the story is good for more than a few laughs and a very satisfying ending. The Oliver Onions' sountrack (Guido & Maurizio DeAngelis) doubles the pleasure. It's not Frank Capra, but it's a good movie for the whole family.
0 out of 1 people found the following comment useful :- One of my childhood faves!!, 23 October 2005 Author: general_zod4ever from Canada
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That movie is the first one that I can remember seeing at the theater. I must have been a five y-o or something then, and the other day when I watched it on DVD, I could reminisce all those souvenirs that film brought me. Relive the innocent moments of the child's magic remote control, those fights between the sheriff and the marines, all those comedic punches and slaps in the faces...The movie is also quite heart warming as well. I mean here, Bud Spencer is not only a fighter, he's someone who decides to take care of a stranded alien kid on earth. It is mainly a friendship story between an adult and a child that is sure to delight people of my generation.
0 out of 3 people found the following comment useful :- Very good., 6 October 2008 Author: robertofuiano from Italy
beautiful film. As to the usual one, the usual negative comments which talk about a classical film some years 80 which everyone does not like it to the nostalgic ones are met.Sure Heros that this film had to have a judgment in this site. In fact reviewers' good part has put a high vote to the previous episodes. Because this contrast? I know the reason. Since assumptive reviewers' good part favorably sees the past and as the past is "better" than the present they have given several credit to the preceding episodes being still the last episode more explosive and spectacular. At this point should reject also the old episodes but there are here two weights and two measure.In fact also cinema masterpieces have been criticized and denigrated. Good part some reviewers of this site belong to the very bad reviewers. Better think separately with its head.
0 out of 5 people found the following comment useful :- I was an "extra" (so to speak) in the movie, 9 August 1999 Author: fred-224 from gainesville, georgia (usa)
My hometown of Monroe, Georgia (USA) was the site of at least some of the filming of "The Sheriff and the Satellite Kid". I have never actually seen the film, but I participated in a scene where there was a parade down the main street of my town. I was basically a bystander on the sidewalk who was waving as the parade went by. I have always wanted to see the movie to not only see what the movie was all about, but to also see myself in my one and only film debut. I would appreciate any leads in how I may go about getting a copy of the film.
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