I was not sure what to expect from this film. Turned out to be caring and sensitive wanting to transmit a message that we can have friends for life, willing to be with us for everything no matter what, but is soft and cute side was not enough.

On Earth to Echo the best friends Tuck, Alex and Munch and their families will be forced to leave the neighborhood where they live, because all the houses will be demolished to initiate the construction of a highway. Tuck loves to make his own videos, filming the events of day-to-day. A few days before the move, all mobile phones in the area start to get weird with very strange images on the screen. Quickly the boys discover that these images are actually maps and on their last night together on the neighborhood they decide to leave on a great adventure! Meanwhile everything is constantly being recorded by Tuck's cameras.

The technique used to shoot was found footage and I am not exactly the biggest fan of the style. It's something that sometimes becomes annoying because the camera never stops, giving it the sense of a shaky movement. Since this film is more directed towards kids I don't know if it succeeds in that aspect. However, the special effects were very well done.

The performances of the young actors are a bit inconsistent. Sometimes I could actually believe their intentions, others don't. All had their ups and downs. The introduction of a fourth character, a girl who attends the same school as the three friends, seemed a little forced and unnecessary. I preferred if history had only maintained the three central characters.

The biggest problem of Echo to Earth is that it turns out to be a mix between E.T. and Super 8, which absolutely takes away all the originality. With all the adventurous part of the film it follows exactly the same path and plot of Super 8. When it comes to the emotional part of the story, is like E.T., where an extraterrestrial becomes a friend of a group of kids, but especially connects himself with one.

Echo is a character poorly developed. We only know that he is from space, but we don't know from where exactly. We are not sure why he is stuck on Earth and when he arrived and when we get to the end of the story there's an emptiness unexplained. I would love to have seen Echo more time on screen.

I can see many teenagers to having a good time watching this film, but I would not recommend it for children under 12 years maybe. I say this because the poster might lead many parents to deception.

Bad watch, probably won't watch again, and can't recommend.

I remembered this being decent the first time I watched it, but that was a Vidcon, so maybe it was the hype.

This movie is an example of why people don't like found footage, just thrown together as if some stupid kid did it, and then there is active narration and editing from the camera person. That in itself isn't necessarily a bad thing to have happen, but this one is. Found footage should be found, this is more like first person account...or a fake-umentary.

Echo itself (it is not a "he") is cute enough but spends a lot of time hiding and there is a communication barrier, but only one way. If it can connect to the smartphone, then it should be able to use the device as a speaker to express the language it understands from the kids.

Alot of the movie is just young boys being defiant and "girls have cooties, but I like it". It fails as a "coming of age", it fails as a "romance", and it barely succeeds as sci-fi or "evil secret organization".

This had the potential to be the next "E.T.", but they just made weird choices throughout the design.