earth to echo

Movie review: In “Earth to Echo” kids will connect with kids

Told from the perspective of junior high students with GoPros, cellphones, video cameras and spyglasses, ” Earth to Echo” is a tech-savvy flick packed with family-friendly adventure. The movie is jockeying to be, as producer Andrew Panay has said, this generation’s ” Stand by Me“-meets-” The Goonies.” “Echo” opens with a sketchy highway construction project threatening to uproot a tightly knit suburb of families and friends in Nevada. The main storyteller here is Tuck ( Brian “Astro” Bradley), a kid struggling to grow up in the shadow of his popular, athletic big brother. Along with his two best friends — Munch ( Reese Hartwig), a hoarder, and Alex ( Teo Halm), a foster kid — the posse pledges to live up their last night tog...