The Last Mimzy

2007

Action / Adventure / Drama / Family / Fantasy / Horror / Sci-Fi

19
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 54% · 124 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 54% · 250K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 22789 22.8K

parent child relationship time travel

Plot summary

Two siblings begin to develop special talents after they find a mysterious box of toys, and soon their parents and even their teacher are drawn into a strange new world – and find a task ahead of them that is far more important than any of them could imagine.

Director

Robert Shaye Photo
Robert Shaye

Top cast

John Shaw Photo
John Shaw as Dr. Rose
Jerry Wasserman Photo
Jerry Wasserman as Utilities Commisioner
Paul Jarrett Photo
Paul Jarrett as Technician
Kathleen Duborg Photo
Kathleen Duborg as Scientist
720p.WEB 1080p.WEB
883.84 MB
1280*538
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 5
1.6 GB
1904*800
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
Seeds 31

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by cyclone259 7 / 10

Yada... yada... yada...

I have never read the book, which this movie is based upon, so I have no point-of-reference for comparison.All in all I thought this movie was perfectly appropriate for families, although from reading reviewers comments on another website, you'd think 'The Last Mimzy' had some kind of subversive plot. One parent said it was 'liberal doctrine' and another focused on the fact that it shows people who actually believe in Eastern philosophies and practices. Wow! You mean there are other religions besides Christianity out there?! Then they must be liberal in nature and are trying to wreak havoc on the traditional, family-values we all hold so dear.I am a Christian and had absolutely no problems with the ideas proposed by other points-of-view. Maybe you might have to walk out of the theater with some explanations of how other cultures see the world and their place in it, but that's part of the magic of this movie. 'The Last Mimzy' was by no means 'liberal doctrine' unless you think showing a different perspective as a threat.Personally, the weakest parts of the movie for me was the uneven direction and the point where I asked "Why is Michael Clark Duncan in this film?" He didn't really add much to it. The kids were believable and Timothy Hutton did a decent job. The effects were all-in-all low-key, but necessary. Before you judge this film for showing the mysteries of Eastern beliefs, try watching it with an open mind. It didn't give me the same vibe as 'E.T.' or 'Close Encounters', but it did a good job as being an entertaining family film.
Reviewed by gpeltz 7 / 10

Great idea, but a so-so production, with a few good moments.

"All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe"The Mimsy before this one was apparently sent to Lewis Carroll, who shared it with his young friend Alice, who had an adventure in Wonderland. This last Mimsy, a stuffed rabbit doll from the future, is discovered in a box of toys, floating in the waters of a deserted beach, by Noah Wilder, a ten year old boy played by Chris ONeil, and his six year old sister Emma, played by Rhiannon Leigh Wryn. Like Alice before them, their lives are transformed into a fascinating and sometimes dangerous wonderland. So goes the short story, "Mimsy were the borogoves" by Kuttner and Moore, on which this movie, "The Last Mimsy" is based.Robert Shaye, the director, who has much more prior film experience as a producer of slasher and fantasy films, in this movie, emulates director Steven Spielberg, with a children's Science Fiction, Fantasy adventure. The premise is interesting; children discover a box of toys from the future. The uses of the toys, as well as their reason for being here, are a mystery.Noah and Emma are taking their spring break, with their parents, at a lovely isolated Seattle beach cottage. Their overworked father, David, played by Timothy Hutton, and his wife, Jo, played by TV veteran, Joely Richardson, are unaware of their children's discovery. They consider their children average, and therefore are concerned and alarmed as they see unexpected changes in their behavior.The toys the children discover are intriguing, pretty but mysterious, until Emma discovers in a hidden compartment, Mimsy, a telepathic teaching machine, in the guise of a cute stuffed Rabbit. Appropriate enough with the Easter holiday approaching. Mimsy has no motion ability, but is carried around as Emma's favorite dolly. We can tell Mimsy is communicating, the sound designers of the film, give the toy a pleasing electronic purring noise, that only Emma can hear. This aspect of the film works very well. The children can see the magic in the toys, whereas the adults can't. This is best exemplified in one scene where Noah hands his mother a glowing opal like rectangular crystal. In her hands it appears as a rusty paperweight. Two additional characters are added to the plot, Noah's Science Teacher, played by Rainn Wilson, and his kooky, New age girlfriend, played by Kathryn Hahn. They notice the effects the toys have on the children. The toys, have the ability to expand the mind and intellect of the children. At school, Noah comes up with a Nobel Prize winning Science Fair project, and both children playing with a generator toy, manage to black out the Seattle area power grid. This alerts Homeland Security, and in a scene that might have been lifted from the Spielberg handbook of quick panic shooting, has the CIA crashing the home of the unsuspecting family, and herding them off to a secret Intelligence headquarters. Notable is actor, Michael Clark Duncan as the perplexed but down to business, head of Homeland Security. One of the major pleasant surprises of the movie, comes with the cleverest example of product placement that I have ever seen. On the other hand, the movies Prologue nearly robs the film of all it's potential drama, suspense and magic. This I found to be a major flaw.It's a very acceptable family film, although the very young will squirm restlessly through the talkative exposition. The effects are just average CGI, it is to the directors credit that Mimsy remains throughout, a inanimate cute stuffed rabbit. The Ending is bright and optimistic, and dispels the sometimes threatening imagery depicted in scenes of the future. I give this movie *** out of five stars.
Read more IMDb reviews

4 Comments

Be the first to leave a comment