This Thanksgiving, Metrograph
revisits this classic story of the friendship that blossoms between a kid named Elliott and an alien whose ship crash - lands in the woods.
However, the latest wave of this trend, including but not limited to, Snow White and the Huntsman, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters and Jack the Giant Slayer have each demonstrated, in their own way, a fundamental flaw with this premise; they lazily force these
classic characters to «grow up» by ratcheting up the angst and violence instead of
revisiting the more complex layers that exist within the original
stories themselves.