Movie Notes: The Last Mimzy

September 27th, 2007

= 2 stars

Starring Chris O’Neil, Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, Timothy Hutton
Directed by Robert Shaye

The Last Mimzy is a strange movie. It’s for kids, but has a mildly entertaining science fiction center. My biggest complaint is the answer to what the heck is going on is basically blown in the first five minutes. I feel it would have been more suspenseful to withhold the “answer” until the end of the film.

I’ll try not to spoil it in this review, but you can easily ruin it for yourself at Wikipedia. Two kids find a stuffed rabbit that basically starts teaching them all kinds of crazy, otherworldly stuff. Soon they’re levitating, controlling things with their minds, and stressing their parents out so that neurologists and eventually the US Government gets involved. The kids are literally smarter than the adults, and it takes a while before everyone realizes this.

Other than this somewhat entertaining idea of kids impressing adults, there isn’t much else to this film — all else (acting, special effects, direction) is pretty average. But hey, it’s for kids, and ultimately I didn’t get much out of it except a little bit of “hmmmm” at the end.

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