makes no sense

I saw it on cable last night. wow, what a load of crap. the movie makes no sense, in any way. why does the kid have a robot that can think (and looks a mixture of the robot from the mask animated series and R2D2)? what on earth has the fact that he can speak with his dead father to do with that he accidentaly finds an evil puppet in the spooky house down the street? the movie is a joke, there are bits and pieces of dialogue and story, that lead nowhere. remember the mom packing suitcases in the car to go/move to her sisters? it's never picked up again, they stay at home. i never was a big fan of emmerich anyway, but this one is like every merchandiseable thing of the 80s blockbusters crammed together in a 90 minutes gag reel. star wars, e.t., gremlins, poltergeist... everybody's there. did anyone check out the guys that wrote this piece a junk at imdb? the first and last thing they worked on. makes sense!

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