Does an excellent job both making science fiction accessible for a younger audience.
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08/27/08
The Last Mimzy (2007)
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Reviews Counted:120
Fresh:64
Rotten:56
Average Rating:5.8/10
Consensus: The Last Mimzy makes efforts to be a fun children's movie, but unsuccessfully juggles too many genres and subplots -- eventually settling as an unfocused, slightly dull affair.
Runtime: 90 mins
Genre: Childrens
US Box Office: $21,426,088
Synopsis: Two kids find a bizarre box on the beach and are soon exhibiting signs of off-the-chart genius in this gently mind-blowing fantasy film. Little Emma (Rhiannon Leigh Wryn) finds a cute bunny doll in... [More]
Starring: Timothy Hutton, Chris O'Neil, Rainn Wilson, Patrick Gilmore
Director: Bob Shaye
Reviews for The Last Mimzy
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06/04/08
I like to refer to it as "Donnie Darko" sans the violence if aimed towards kids...
03/02/08
Considering that parts are frightening, parts are nauseatingly sweet, and it's all confusing, it's not clear which demographic Mimzy is aiming for.
02/29/08
O'Neil and Wryn convey the occult and the mysterious with greater depth than you'd expect them to possess at their respective ages of 13 and 7.
01/15/08
Slight.
11/05/07
Quirky sci-fi adventure best for fantasy lovers.
10/31/07
For much of its scant 96 minutes Mimzy is rudderless in a muddle of metaphysical malarkey and time-travelling science fiction.
09/22/07
Mimsy seems watered down and limp, especially as it concludes.
07/20/07
...tries hard to be magical, charming, and endearing but remains mostly flat and lifeless.
07/16/07
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07/14/07
A timely cautionary tale, even if its heartwarming message gets a little garbled along the way.
07/07/07
Incidentally, forget the toys, which seem to be upstaged by Wilson's underwear, reportedly the most expensive drawers ever in a movie.
07/06/07
Turgid twaddle.
06/25/07
Despite its attempt at being well-meaning family genre fare a la E.T., The Last Mimzy simply collapses under the considerable weight of its many bewildering plot elements.
06/25/07
It's a confused and confusing affair, though not without its felicitous moments.
04/07/07
Please enjoy this with your family and consider renting this when it comes out.
04/07/07
Perhaps those futuristic folks could send another Mimzy back in time to a better filmmaker like Joe Dante, who can do a better film adaptation of Padgett's story and beat Shaye to the punch.
04/06/07
New Line powerbroker/director Robert Shaye has made a children's film for stoners, a trippy, psychedelic fable that belongs in the DVD section of New Age bookstores alongside the strangely similar What The Fuck Do We Know?
04/05/07
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