![]() They may be only metal, but they are as adorable as humanoids. Dennis Boutsakiris costars as the upstairs artist who falls for Marisa, who poses for him while baby aliens (born in an earlier scene) play in his paint pots. ![]() The awestruck tenants pledge to protect the beings, who meanwhile have built a scrap metal nest on the rooftop.Ĭasting tends to be racist, with Michael Carmine as the Hispanic heavy whose gang smashes Frank's cafe' and sexually intimidates pregnant tenant Marisa, sweetly played by "La Bamba's" Elizabeth Pena. The developer hires some young thugs to smash up the place, but the aliens make it good as new again by morning. Cronyn is unendingly patient as husband Frank, coping with her delusions as he fights to save their home and the cafe' that's their livelihood. ![]() Troupers Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn prevail over the hardware, with Tandy especially touching as the silver-haired Faye, happily lost in her own senility. They speed through the rubble, pipsqueaks from another planet, batting their baby blue headlights and repairing toasters and things. Rejected by the preservation society and harassed by urban youths, the holdouts are about to give in when the wee saucers land. When hope is lost, they come to the aid of the residents of a New York tenement in a dispute with an unscrupulous real estate developer. In this case, the UFOs are Lilliputian beings, like anthropomorphic pie tins. Though directed by Matthew Robbins, it is an Amblin Entertainment feature rooted in the Spielbergian credo: Earthlings cannot cope without the little men upstairs. That's why he keeps making or backing the likes of "Batteries Not Included," a bizarre sci-fi fantasy about urban decay and perky aliens. Here's my theory: Steven Spielberg was captured by aliens, brainwashed and forced to become their public relations man.
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