The Last Mimzy (2007)

Awesome Movie

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Noah and Emma are little kid spending the weekend with their mother Jo (Joely Richardson) at their family cottage. The kids find a strange box while playing on the shore. The box turns out to have strange rocks and glass and a stuff bunny named Mimzy.The premise of the story is compelling. The idea, that little kids have greater understanding while the adults are either disbelieving or too stupid to grasp, is a very powerful one. For 2/3 of this movie, it had me on the edge of my seat.The last act with the introduction of Homeland Security is too heavy handed. Their escape is too unrealistic. In fact, the whole climax lacks the drama needed. And the explanation lacks the magic that was promised by stuff bunny.

People on IMDb are comparing this film to lots of others, none of which I've seen, so I can't comment on that aspect. "The Last Mimzy" from 2007 is a children's' film that adults will also enjoy. It stars Timothy Hutton, Joely Richardson, Rainn Wilson, Michael Clark Duncan, Chris O'Neil and Rhiannon Leigh Wryn.The story concerns a brother and sister who find a box in the ocean that contains toys with magical powers. The sister becomes attached to one of the toys, a bunny that is named Mimzy and who seems to give her messages.This is a fantasy, quasi-sci fi film that touches on several philosophies, including Buddhism and metaphysics, and it's also a bit of a mystery. It did remind me of one film I've seen, ET. The kids were cute and believable as brother and sister. Rainn Wilson, as the boy's science teacher, had the showiest role, and he brought a lot to it.I can't say too much about it except that it's a decent story with nice effects that kids should enjoy. For the adults, well, it's good to be reminded once in a while in this high tech world of the importance of humanity.

The makers of chick flicks could take some lessons from The Last Mimzy. The film was made in typical kid flick manner, i.e. all adults are dumb and/or evil and only the kids really know what's going on. When I was a kid, that appealed to me but I stopped watching kid flicks about the same time that I discovered girls. I haven't found a kid flick that appealed to me since that momentous discovery, that is until I watched The Last Mimzy.This movie is far from perfect but it is an entertaining movie for viewers of all ages. So, why can't the makers of chick flicks put out a product that a guy can watch without being bored or ashamed in approximately equal amounts?

(I loved it, it was sweet, but this is a specific reply to some other comments)In fact this was an example of really good product placement in the sense that it actually carries an important plot element. It's *not* gratuitous. By showing that, at a nanotech-level, the innards of Mimzy were constructed by Intel (and then having a character who was *from* Intel saying "we're *eons* away from being able to do this) *tells* us, and the people in the story (not that many were really paying attention) that this is something sent from the future and *not* anything to do with aliens.And yet people still seem to think it's about aliens, ET and all that. Do pay attention. :-)In fact I was thinking, watching it, "Sufficiently Advanced Technology"...(Marked as a spoiler to be safe but really if you're paying attention to the prologue it's not, really.)