The siblings Noah and Emma travel with their mother Jo from Seattle to the family cottage in Whidbey Island to spend a couple of days while their workaholic father David Wilder is working. They find a box of toys from the future in the water and bring it home, and Emma finds a stuffed rabbit called Mimzy, and stones and a weird object, but they hide their findings from their parents. Mimzy talks telepathically to Emma and the siblings develop special abilities, increasing their intelligences to the level of genius. Their father becomes very proud when Noah presents a magnificent design in the fair of science and technology, and his teacher Larry White and his mystic wife Naomi Schwartz become interested in the boy when he draws a mandala. When Noah accidentally assembles the objects and activates a powerful generator creating a blackout in the state, the FBI arrests the family trying to disclose the mystery. But Emma unravels the importance to send Mimzy back to the future.
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The movie is pretty well done very good graffics as well. There was a lot of action during the whole movie so it keeps you interested. Some of the scenes would probably scare the younger children a little too much but for the most part it's a great family movie.The technology aspect of this film is rather cool in some of the idea that they put out there. Makes you really think as to were we are really going with some of the stuff we do now.If you like SciFi get this movie or rent it, you wont be disapointed. Even if you aren't a typical SciFi nut you will still like this one as it has a host of other issues that are touched on (family and so on).
Well, I'm in the middle of watching again for the 2nd time. This movie was beautiful. It said and showed what exactly needed to be said and shown. I will add it to my favorites which are very few.
This is quite an entertaining film, and I liked the way it incorporatedLewis Carroll's evergreen Alice in Wonderland tale into its story ofextra-terrestrial visitors, but it falters very badly in the last reeland ends up looking like just another inferior copy of ET.Chris O'Neil and Rhiannon Leigh Wryn play siblings who stumble across amysterious box on the beach which happens to contain a cuddly rabbittransported from a dying planet in a desperate quest for the elixir itneeds to revive its people. Previous mimzys, we learn, made it to earthbefore - most obviously in the late nineteenth/early twentieth centurywhen it landed in the lap of the girl who inspired Lewis Carroll towrite Alice in Wonderland (rabbit, geddit?) but failed to completetheir mission. Now this merging of fiction with factual history isalways something that appeals to me - I like the idea of grand storiesunfolding around historical fact unseen by all those who recordhistory, and for a while this film runs with the idea quite well. Thenall of a sudden it runs into a brick wall and turns to Spielberg forinspiration. I'm no screenwriter but, to me, the obvious idea wouldhave been to follow the Lewis Carroll/Alice Liddell theme and see whereit took me: the options would seem to be far greater in number thansimply regurgitating thechildlike-alien-relying-on-earthling-children-for-survival storylinefrom Spielberg's eighties flick.The child male lead looks like the youngest incarnation of Harry Potteruntil advanced intelligence courtesy of the alien rabbit's bric-a-bracmeans he no longer needs the specs. For a while he looks as if he'sgoing to be the focus of the film, but it soon switches to his cuteryounger sister. There's a hippy type teacher who dreams of winninglottery numbers but neglects to write them down, much to the chagrin ofhis earth-mother wife. I thought he was going to turn into somesinister nemesis but it turned out he was simply a plot device toexplain the situation to the kids' unwitting parents and provide thekids themselves with a lift to the damp squib finale. That's probablywhere this film's real failing lies: there aren't really any bad guysto root against. Michael Clarke Duncan's FBI agent is the closest wecome to a bad guy, but he's really just doing his job and bears no illwill toward the kids or their cuddly alien friend.Bottom line: young kids will love it, older kids will be entertainedwithout being fooled, and most adults will realise that what starts offas a promising tale loses its way badly around the midway mark.
The premise of the movie is beautiful. I was expecting a magical presentation about a serious topic that I could watch with my child. I did not expect a clichéd beating you over the head but trying to look like it's not film. I got it that we are destroying the environment and ourselves. I got it that we've need to do something. I got it that we should be open to possibilities. I got it that things that sometimes seem like bogus new agey beliefs or supernatural powers may really mask some science or tech we just don't yet understand. I like the idea of future humans sending messages to the past to prevent the kind of future they are now facing. Based on one early scene, I wasn't sure if there were reptillian type beings trying to prevent the scientist from sending the message to the past or what. I thought good mystery. I liked that we have to work to figure it out the meaning of the message. I didn't mind that it takes a 1)particular type of person (a pure innocent child) to be able to 2)receive the message (essentially enters wonderland by interacting with the "toys")and with a team and some serious risk ("engineer" bro and sympathetic teacher) get the job done.The film just didn't do a good job of depicting all of that.The teacher's lecture about genes sounded like he was pushing nature side of the nature vs. nurture argument. The parents were the typical narcissistically distracted and busy but deep down really care and will come around, type. As usual, they were good at emoting and screaming and not so good at helping the smart kids save the world. The depiction of DHS just made me laugh. I wanted to go enough already. I was hoping for it to be as magical and as it was set up to be. It had me up until that genetics lecture which was relatively early on. My kid fell asleep after that scene and I plodded on hoping it would get better! In short, the film was weighed down with too many clichéd scenes that were not done well. Even the child actors typically cute and smart looking, seemed stiff and uncomfortable in the roles. The adults were just props. It was a disappointing film. The music on the other hand was pretty good. As the film became increasingly predictable, I found myself focusing on the score.
This is an enjoyable film that features decent performances and effects, and is an overall appealing show for families. It begins with the basic plot of an extraordinary encounter that brings magical powers and big responsibilities to a couple of young children who are not quite ready for it. The film plays off of the wonder and curiosity that there may be powers beyond the ordinary -- something that almost all fantasy scenarios draw upon -- and ties this scenario to the idea that only through imagination and wonder and belief can the world be saved. Well none of this is new (see ET, The Never Ending Story, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, The Bridge to Terabithia) it feels fairly novel and is fairly well executed and sustained my children's interest and excitement throughout, though as a film it pales in comparison to any of the others I just mentioned. Part of the problem is that there is never a very strong hint of the darkness or danger that needs to be overcome, and not much of a sense of why specifically these two young children are chosen to save the world (of the future). There isn't much of an antagonist and the protagonists are fairly generic (apart from the fact that the younger sister is said to be something of a child prodigy -- she seems for the most part just to be a precocious young and cute girl, along the lines of your standard cute young Hollywood starlet, something of a cross between the young Dakota Fanning and Abigail Breslin of Little Miss Sunshine). Unlike many of the classic films in this genre, these children don't have to face up to a crisis in their parents' relationships (the father is portrayed as a hard working hero who would really just like to be with his children but sacrifices to work hard and pay for vacation cottage on the beach; and the mother as a near saint -- on the model of the classic television housewives who can put up with everything -- who never complains at the long hours her husband works and only "loses it" momentarily when she fears for her children's lives). The government forces who investigate the consequences of the children's new-found powers are depicted as benign but merely misunderstanding (unlike, say, the authorities in E.T.). Even the alien dangers from the future that they are trying to overcome are not presented as very scary -- as far as I can tell they amount to human beings losing their genetic capacity for imagination and becoming technological bureaucrats or robots -- and in fact from the beginning it is clear that these dangers will be overcome because the story is told by someone from the future who tells some children that she will be explaining to them how their world was saved. Overall, then, while this is more interesting and well made and a stronger story than your average made for television fantasy, it is far less compelling than some of the classic fantasies it is modelled after. Sweet but saccharine.
I took my daughter to a screening and was very surprised at how goodthis movie was. My 13 year old could not decide whether she liked thismovie or the Bridge to Terabithia better. There was never a dullmoment. We were both very entertained. It was definitely worth theprice of admission. The younger kids (10 and under) did not seem toenjoy it as much as the adults and teens though. If you are planning onseeing this, stay away from trailers. You'll have a much betterexperience the less you know about it. During the last 10 minutes, thereel or film broke. You should have heard the uproar that caused.Everyone in the theater waited impatiently while the projectionistrepaired the film. I'll probably go see this again when it does open.
Most offerings for family movies are mindless cartoons or farces designed for the average child with a short attention span and a narrow interest base. Fantasy for little girls is typically some kind of princess who only cares about looking good and fitting in. My 5 year old daughter loved this movie. It was well worth the ticket price to go see in the theatre rather than waiting for the DVD. It wasn't cutsie or dumbed down. The story line held the whole family's interest throughout. The blend of fantasy and sci fi was great. The children in the movie gave great performances. It was nice to see children act well while still acting like children. I think this movie would appeal to both girls and boys. My child is not a tomboy, but not overly girly either. Her favorite movies are Star Wars episodes 3 and 5 and Gone With the Wind. The Last Mimzy appealed to both her girlish and boyish sides. Bravo! I hope that the trend is turning in family movies and we get more of this stuff instead of twaddle like Cars and How to Eat Fried Worms (great book, terrible movie).
However, I don't think it intended to be a comedy. I saw this film on aplane, and I was getting stares because juice was coming out of my nosewhile laughing. Ahh good times.This film is just crap. The story is TErRIBLE- some alien futurescientist's last hope for the universe. It's liked they lined up everycliché POSSIBLE and strung them as scenes one after the other. Theparents are just dumb, and seem to be blind in many scenes. YOu havethis duo of morons (not the kids) who believe in aliens, andconveniently they know the protagonists... It's all just poo.There were literally only two good things about this films: 1) Thespecial effects were fantastic.2) The 2 child leads were convincing actors, and were pretty much letdown by the adults in the film.Some people have compared this to E.T...NO NOO don't do that. Childrenmight find this film okay, sure, but honestly there are a THOUSANDother better family movies. Rent the Lion King or Toy Story which aresimply a thousand times better than this.(I mean for God's sake the little alien thing is called aMimzy....wtf!! Was the writer high when he wrote the script??)
I took two younger girls to see this movie, and all THREE of us agreed that it was a total "waste" of time... Everyone who keeps saying that there is "something for everyone" is sorely mistaken. Coming from a Christian home, I was extremely uncomfortable with all of the "new age" propaganda (which is NOT like Disney magic in the slightest) and bizarre things that were going on. Watching teachers "read" the palm of a 5 year old (or how-ever old she was) was actually disturbing to me. As if parents just let people do things like that to their children while they're sitting right there... Perhaps you would, if you were totally fine with palm reading. But, I know plenty of people who are not. The film had an over-all "tense" feeling that never really delivers but, puts someone who was expecting something pleasant in an uncomfortable state... like the one of wondering whether something is going to "pop" out of the cabinets or something. The storyline was something so enormously far fetched that my 13 year old sister had no idea what had even just hit her. Unlike a movie like "Bridge to Terribithia," or something of that nature, this movie would require you to know about "mysticism," and "new age" beliefs to understand HALF of what's going on. The child star is extremely "creepy" in some scenes. She does things like "shows someone" a magic trick which totally freaks this person out. Especially when she inserts her hand into a floating globe that appears to be disintegrating it. She does other strange things and becomes steadily more creepy leading some of us to wonder if she's really being influenced by the devil or something. Talking about "astrology" and what not. Perhaps the "strange" language that this stuffed bunny is always spewing out was supposed to sound "cute" but in reality, I think myself and a lot of people just found it to be disturbing. I would NOT suggest this movie to young children or to anyone sensitive. It might scare them terribly. If you however like the idea of all the "Tibbetian" and "New Age" stuff then go for it. My personal thought? It'll completely go over most children's heads and stay in their minds as a really strange thing they saw when they are older.
Round up the kiddies and pop the popcorn. This film will entertain allages. Noah(Chris O'Neil)and Emma(Rhiannon Leigh Wryn)Wilder wereexcited to leave Seattle on vacation to the beach of Whidbey Island.The children find a mysterious box washing ashore. Upon opening, thepuzzle box contained shiny rocks, a conch shell and a stuffed rabbitamong other things. The rabbit tells Emma its name is Mimzy. The boxcontained a green crystal block that Noah discovers allows him to moveobjects. The box and new "toys" make their way back home to Seattle,and life really gets strange. The children's mom(Joely Richardson)isalso trying to digest the fact Noah and Emma are specially giftedchildren. Half the state of Washington is blacked out and it alertsHomeland Security to the Wilder home. Mimzy is the phenomenon thatholds the key to mankind's future. F/X are fascinating. Also in thecast: Michael Clarke Duncan, Rain Wilson and Kathryn Hahn.
As a movie, you know the criteria of a movie, screenplay, producing,directing, art directing... This movie have all of this at an averagenote of 8. BUT... All the time I've been in a very familiarlypleasure... Like listening the Shine on You Crazy Dimond... And, afterthe movie was finished I was understanding that feeling. Roger Watershave a score at the end. Nothing more... The movie was very goodcrafted on the story, and the story was, and the plot of the backstory,stratificated very good in the movie. Cool small CG's, relevant actionsin the cutting, good photography, good directing. The boy was terrible,with the small accent, the small girl was very sweet... The story itrevealed it self very smoothly in time... It is a good movie, familymovie, peacefully movie... I enjoy it very much!
I took my 10 year old and 12 year old to The Last Mimzy on openingnight, 3/23. The audience was a mix of families with kids and adults,which surprised me at first but after I saw the movie, it makes sense.This is a movie for the whole family and there's something foreveryone.Kids will like it because the two main characters, 5-year old Emma andolder brother Noah Wilder are the heroes in the movie who succeeddespite the befuddled adults trying to "help." Adults will like itbecause the interaction between the kids and family members will ringtrue, the special effects are well done, and some of the dialog andplot twists are clearly aimed at adults. (In fact, there were somescenes that one review said were over kids' heads -- and while it wasobvious what scenes it was talking about, my kids didn't seem to mind.)Young Rhiannon Leigh Wryn steals the show as Emma. Fans of TV's TheOffice will love Rainn "Dwight Schrute" Wilson as Noah's scienceteacher.Is it a great film? No. Timothy Hutton, who played the father, seemedrather flat. Michael Clarke Duncan's character, the local HomelandSecurity chief, wasn't dastardly as I think he was trying to be. Ican't tell if he was trying to be funny or nasty because he tried to beboth at different times.Last and perhaps least, the film is supposedly set in Seattle butreportedly was filmed in Vancouver. Yet the film bangs you over thehead with contrived and sometimes fake Seattle references (for example"Seattle Elementary School" - as if there's only one?), one of whichthey mangled (the "Music Experience" instead of the "Experience MusicProject"). I'm not sure if anyone who isn't familiar with the areawould even notice though.All in all, however, my kids and I enjoyed the film, the ending waspoignant and thought-provoking, and it was a great way to spend aFriday evening.
Here's a movie seemingly for children which is really much more than you might think. As with Lewis Carroll's great works (and many others) it works on the adult level as well as on the more elementary. The documentary included with the movie on this disc suggests that much of what happens in the movie is theoretically, at least, possible and not just fantasy. In many ways, "The Last Mimsy" reminds me of "What the Bleep Do We Know?" which is all for adults because of its intellectual content only (not rated, but it should have a G). The "magic" in both of these movies is based on the most advanced thinking of Superstring Theory from today's physics (Alice fits in here, too!) and is more than just wishful thinking. This, for me at least, is the most charming thing about this charming movie. And, as some of you know, quarks have charm, too, or so they call it. Is it the same thing as we see here? I think so. It's called love. The glue of the universe. That bit's not scientific, perhaps, but it connects with the other winning qualities of this movie to make it real for me, and for many others. Further than this, I'd just like to agree with many of the other reviewers here who comment on the excellent acting and direction. The color quality is also superb, as is the sound. In all, much more than may meet the jaded eye, and not just for the young. There's a profound reason why many adults love stories of this sort, and it's not just sentiment.
For those who loved E.T. and movies of that genre where your can loseyourselves in the movie and let your imaginations expand, you willparticularly enjoy "The Last Mimzy." The children's portrayals werebelievable - not only in their interaction as brother and sister, butin the adventure they were pursuing. You'll be surprised how easily youare sucked into the plot, and how you want to join Emma and Noah intheir discoveries.There scenery is remarkable and the special effects, as well. If youwear glasses, be certain to bring them with you.For those of you are "young at heart," you're going to find yourselfquite literally immersed in this movie.
Unfortunately, it just didn't touch on any of the potential that was there. The potential that made me buy this movie. It's a cross between ET and Close Encounters of The Third Kind, but without the flair and panache of Steven Spielberg. And aimed primarily at kids. With kids for leads, who can't really act.Reading the blurb on the back of the DVD, it holds so much promise. But there was so many segments of the movie that could have been extended and elaborated. It felt so truncated at times, but then at the same time it felt overlong. The segment that annoyed me was the scene where the girl looks into the future, and sees the old man messing about. Why was he there? What exactly was he doing? Couldn't she have talked to him? Couldn't there have been SOME interaction? If they weren't going to explain it, it was unnecessary to the movie.For a children's movie, it was certainly tedious. In my opinion, I expect a children's movie to be short and to the point. This was nowhere near that. Every scene dragged, to the point where it got to 30 minutes in, and I nearly gave up. Thinking something would happen, and I still hadn't seen Michael Clarke Duncan yet - but when he did appear, it was very brief, and very pointless.The two kids irritated me. I really should stop buying these movies, cos the child actors do really annoy me, they either can't act, or are just OTT in their acting skills. Really, the whole film just annoyed me, and it just seemed like a waste of time once I'd finished watching it. I'm not going to recommend this movie to anyone. It's just a waste of your time watching it.
"All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe"The Mimsy before this one was apparently sent to Lewis Carroll, whoshared it with his young friend Alice, who had an adventure inWonderland. This last Mimsy, a stuffed rabbit doll from the future, isdiscovered in a box of toys, floating in the waters of a desertedbeach, by Noah Wilder, a ten year old boy played by Chris ONeil, andhis six year old sister Emma, played by Rhiannon Leigh Wryn. Like Alice before them, their lives are transformed into a fascinatingand sometimes dangerous wonderland. So goes the short story, "Mimsywere the borogoves" by Kuttner and Moore, on which this movie, "TheLast Mimsy" is based.Robert Shaye, the director, who has much more prior film experience asa producer of slasher and fantasy films, in this movie, emulatesdirector Steven Spielberg, with a children's Science Fiction, Fantasyadventure. The premise is interesting; children discover a box of toysfrom the future. The uses of the toys, as well as their reason forbeing here, are a mystery.Noah and Emma are taking their spring break, with their parents, at alovely isolated Seattle beach cottage. Their overworked father, David,played by Timothy Hutton, and his wife, Jo, played by TV veteran, JoelyRichardson, are unaware of their children's discovery. They considertheir children average, and therefore are concerned and alarmed as theysee unexpected changes in their behavior.The toys the children discover are intriguing, pretty but mysterious,until Emma discovers in a hidden compartment, Mimsy, a telepathicteaching machine, in the guise of a cute stuffed Rabbit. Appropriateenough with the Easter holiday approaching. Mimsy has no motionability, but is carried around as Emma's favorite dolly. We can tellMimsy is communicating, the sound designers of the film, give the toy apleasing electronic purring noise, that only Emma can hear. This aspect of the film works very well. The children can see the magicin the toys, whereas the adults can't. This is best exemplified in onescene where Noah hands his mother a glowing opal like rectangularcrystal. In her hands it appears as a rusty paperweight. Two additional characters are added to the plot, Noah's ScienceTeacher, played by Rainn Wilson, and his kooky, New age girlfriend,played by Kathryn Hahn. They notice the effects the toys have on thechildren. The toys, have the ability to expand the mind and intellect of thechildren. At school, Noah comes up with a Nobel Prize winning ScienceFair project, and both children playing with a generator toy, manage toblack out the Seattle area power grid. This alerts Homeland Security,and in a scene that might have been lifted from the Spielberg handbookof quick panic shooting, has the CIA crashing the home of theunsuspecting family, and herding them off to a secret Intelligenceheadquarters. Notable is actor, Michael Clark Duncan as the perplexedbut down to business, head of Homeland Security. One of the major pleasant surprises of the movie, comes with thecleverest example of product placement that I have ever seen. On theother hand, the movies Prologue nearly robs the film of all it'spotential drama, suspense and magic. This I found to be a major flaw.It's a very acceptable family film, although the very young will squirmrestlessly through the talkative exposition. The effects are justaverage CGI, it is to the directors credit that Mimsy remainsthroughout, a inanimate cute stuffed rabbit. The Ending is bright andoptimistic, and dispels the sometimes threatening imagery depicted inscenes of the future. I give this movie *** out of five stars.
Unlike many adults whose vision has become clouded by the weight of thecurrent materialist paradigm, children generally are much more open tothe mystery and wonder of the universe. Most films geared to children,however, lack the vision to portray this wonder, resigning themselvesto the conformist drum beat of ugly monsters and good versus evilconfrontations. Robert Shaye's The Last Mimzy, however, treats childrenlike the caring, intelligent beings that they are, showing anappreciation of interesting and beautiful things that are availablebeyond iPods, computer games, and other forms of commercializedentertainment.Based on a short story from 1943 by Lewis Padgett, a scientist from thefuture looks to children from the past to save his dying world.Apparently the future world is so poisoned that people have to wearalien-looking suits for protection from pollution. As 10-year old NoahWilder (Chris O'Neil) and his 6-year old sister Emma (Rhiannon LeighWryn) discover an odd looking box that washes up on the beach neartheir family's summer home in the Seattle area, the door is opened to anon-linear reality that they could have scarcely imagined.In this reality, small rocks can spin on their own and provide theopening to a different dimension, a glowing crystal allows Noah toteleport objects, a sea shell emits strange noises, and a stuffedrabbit communicates telepathically and tells Emma that she representsfuture humanity's last chance. Newly possessed of heightened powers,Noah is able to create a science project that deeply impresses hisscience teacher Larry White (Rainn Wilson). Larry visits the boy'smother (Joely Richardson) and father (Timothy Hutton) with girlfriendNaomi (Kathryn Hahn) to tell the parents not only about Noah's scienceproject but about the boy's notebook which contains drawings of Tibetanmandalas, images that the teacher has been seeing in dreams.He explains to the somewhat bewildered parents that mandalas mayprovide the path to focus meditation on healing the world. Naomi readsthe palms of the two children and finds an unusual purity in Emma'spalm but neither she nor Larry can understand or interpret the resultsor the changes taking place in the lives of the children. When Noah'sexperiments result in a sudden blackout of the entire Seattle area, theFeds naturally become interested. A Homeland Security official playedby Michael Clarke Duncan traces the source of the blackout to theWilder's suburban home and, using the authority of the Patriot Act,storms into their home, confidently filling the role of villain. Ifyou've seen E.T., you know that the children will become the embodimentof calm and reason while the adults remain clueless and panichysterically at the sight of anything unusual.I welcome the fact that a major studio has produced a film for childrenthat dares to introduce elements of Eastern mysticism without the usualsilliness attending such references. Unfortunately, the film takes ascatter shot approach to spirituality, throwing together a smörgåsbordof palm reading, meditation, Tibetan mandalas, lucid dreaming, mentaltelepathy, and levitation, in a way that lacks any organic relationshipto the film's message. However, while The Last Mimzy lacks theimagination and stylistic vision to be a fully satisfying experience,it is nonetheless a timely and entertaining film that children canappreciate and identify with and adults may find thought provoking. Ifit can make us all more aware that the infinite affection of childrenis needed to restore sanity to a troubled world, it will haveaccomplished something much more profound than spinning rocks.
Two children find a box of strange objects on the beach, and discover they must save the future.The fantasy element special effects are, by far, the best thing about the movie. Most of the actors, however, were unlikable and detracted from the story. The adults, in particular, were helpless weenies, beyond even what would be expected in a children's movie.The hippy, love Gaia, hate the Patriot Act preaching was unnecessarily intrusive, as well. Can't Hollywood make a kid's movie without politics? Seven year olds can't vote, so leave them alone.
I took my two nephews (13 & 15) to an advance screening just now and weall liked the movie. Although, to enjoy it requires a very high levelof "suspension of disbelief". A lot of things do not make sense,circumstances that would never happen and some things that just gonowhere in the movie all led to us making fun of the movie afterward.BUT, we all still enjoyed the movie and thought it was good. It ispretty much a high grade B movie. I went after reading the comments onhere and was a little cautious because all of the first comments werehorrible and then the latest ones were all perfect so I figured"people" were fluffing the votes to get people to go see it because ofit's release next weekend and that is why I am posting this. You mightwant to wait for DVD or go to a twilight viewing(we paid $4 each), butI would not have been mad if I had paid full price. Sorry for theuneven review (kind of like the movie itself), it is my first.
The scenes involving the kids and the vortex, looking into the future at the alien looking creatures was very scary to young children. Make sure and talk to your children, let them know the movie has some very disturbing scenes.
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