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Not to mention that he has adorable blue eyes and can fit in a bicycle basket.

These babyish, teddy-bear like creatures from the forest moon of Endor are often condemned as a too-cute addition to a franchise on its way to

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MAC,Mac and Me

Those eyes!

No one, that’s who.

However, what really sendsToy Story’s claw game refugees over the top is the way they talk.

Also known as Experiment 626, Stitch is an aggressive blue creature designed to destroy everything in his path. But when little Hawaiian girl Lilo adopts

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However, he’s pretty darn cute.

Still no replacement forBill Murray, though.

Their friendly faces even helped snag the film an Oscar nom for Best Visual Effects.

E.T. is peaceful, he can heal people with the touch of a finger, and all he wants is to go home again. Not to mention

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Those eyes! Those ears! Whether communicating with his winsome whistle or whizzing down the streets in a miniature truck, this little guy just wanted to

The name might not sound all that appealing, but even Jay can’t deny that the big-eyed, thumb-sucking Squid Baby is, as he puts it, ‘‘actually

Squid Baby from ‘Men in Black’.

The cuddly, big-eyed extraterrestrial from Stephen Chow’s ( Kung Fu Hustle, Shaolin Soccer ) family film appears to have been designed in a lab for

Who wouldn’t be bowled over by this owlish little alien-bot? No one, that’s who. — Lanford Beard

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Sure, their three-eyed faces, teeny-weeny antennae, and chubby little bodies are all fairly adorable — but what really sends these claw game refugees over the

As one of the many parodies/ripoffs/clones of E.T. , the mushy grey alien from camp-comedy Meatballs 2 may look like a three-week-old meatloaf found in

Unwatchable without the smartassery of MST3K , this boy-finds-an-alien rip-off of E.T. features a furry, vacuum-snouted ALF-esque creature who’s all cute and such…until its mother

Of the more traditional, big-headed alien ilk, these UFO-travelers from Steven Spielberg’s follow-up to Jaws were definitely more viewer-friendly than that shark. Their friendly faces

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Before he brought adorable superheroes ( The Incredibles ) and rodents ( Ratatouille ) to Pixar, Brad Bird wrote this tale about otherworldly machines that