SoTrumpBelieve Must See Movie...

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Curt Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

TheBlueHairedLawyer To be fair, I thought some of the special effects were kind of cool, and the soundtrack was good. Otherwise, unless you're a yoga instructor, a soccer mom, Al Gore or an aging hippie, you'll find this movie to have far more cons than pros.First off, the family in this movie looks like their photo should be airbrushed onto the title of a modern parenting magazine. Emma is the generic fakely-cute little girl, lost in her own world, whereas her older brother Noah is a quiet, unmemorable, 2-D character with virtually no personality. The parents, Joanna "Jo" Wilder and Dave Wilder, act more like two newlywed college students than a mom and dad and have this belief that their kids are somehow much more gifted than any other kid out there. I mean, sure, every parent thinks they have the smartest kid on the planet, but the only thing to make these kids any different from all the other rugrats out there is an event that happens entirely by chance. Emma and Noah find a mysterious box on the beach which contains a variety of weird objects, including a stuffed rabbit named Mimzy. It's then that the kids start experiencing strange, new-found talents. Otherwise, this is a family so generic of the 21st century that there's nothing special at all about 'em.I know it's a fictional movie, but COME ON! The family gets dragged away by the FBI and locked away! Hello, Firestarter (1984)! This movie appears original at first but it isn't by any means. It seems to rip off many ideas from other movies.The acting in this movie is terrible! I've seen low-budget TV movies with better acting than The Last Mimzy, and I think the worst acting came from the roles of Emma and the parents.Elizabeth May, Al Gore, P.E.T.A. and Greenpeace would all love this movie. It's got a preachy, environmental message that underlies within the whole plot. When are those eco-freaks going to stop pushing their anti-pollution propaganda on little kids? Speaking of eco-freaks, this movie is full of bizarre new age crud, yoga-type stuff and weird zen things. Not in a religious way, more in a tacky way.All in all, this is a movie that claims to have a lot of deep intelligence and imagination, but ends up just being a big disappointment. If you want a truly amazing movie to show your kids, try Opal Dream (2006). Opal Dream is an Australian movie about a little girl who inspires the small opal mining town she lives in with her two imaginary friends, Pobby and Dingan. Opal Dream is one adults can enjoy as well, it's not childish but it's full of imagination and intelligence, believe it or not.

Sukhitha Jayathilake Another usual Children's story. A little girl and a boy discover an out of this world object that will change their lives and the people around them forever. Good one I should say. But with some serious drawbacks. Here and there you can see the producers trying to give messages to children. Considering the fact that this is a children's movie, It's justifiable. One clear message I got was how whacked Buddhist people are!?! I mean come on? Why do all movie people have such a little and completely misguided understanding of Buddhism. Buddhists don't meditate like that.The movie leaves you with just so many loose ends. It's like the writer has been indecisive of what the movie is going to be like. One time it gives the impression of being like a story based on aliens and It just changes without explanation. Maybe it was done intentionally to add an element of surprise, But obviously hasn't succeeded for me. Like for instance at first in the visions there are clearly aliens, and talk about a bridge across the whole universe and also Emma's curious questions about life on other planets. But all these lead to nothing and ends up with a totally different story based on time travel, which blows. I mean what about those "mandalas". What purpose do they serve. It's like I said. So many loose ends.But disregarding all the flaws in the flow of the story, I thought this movie was quite appealing. The visual effects, CGI, Gives this an extra edge which seems almost out of place. As ever Howard shore music add value. The poor cast really doesn't do that much justice either. For instance I've seen much better Kid actors in various other movies. But the director really seems to understand how kids work, how they think and their behavior. The enjoyment factor is above average for this movie. I mean as a kid, I would have been pretty much psyched about this movie. Oh, Simpler times! This really won my heart over until the last 3 minutes of the movie, Which leaves you dumbfounded and angry, why do they have to mess something beautiful like this. I mean It wasn't that great before that last bit, but that bit totally screws the whole movie up. Another good one ruined.

doris-chiang It's classified as a kids movie, but really, it is more than that. Some how, we are approaching the end of the day, not in the way people may interpret from the Bible, but instead, Human are already digging their own hell and creating their heaven depending on how they would like to use their mind to work for them. At the end of the movie, the future human have super powers to fly off the sky, as light as an angel. But aren't all baby born like an angel, and everyone were once a baby? What happened when we grow? Why can we only find that pure love and whole hearted passion for life only from a child? From a child's eye, it does not make sense to find it hard accepting new things (unlike the child's nanny or parents), but simply to recognize things as it is. Place no judgment on things but to enjoy them.Don't you agree? That when you polish your heart back to as a child, you too can start to fly and see only the beauty in the world?

JoeytheBrit This is quite an entertaining film, and I liked the way it incorporated Lewis Carroll's evergreen Alice in Wonderland tale into its story of extra-terrestrial visitors, but it falters very badly in the last reel and ends up looking like just another inferior copy of ET.Chris O'Neil and Rhiannon Leigh Wryn play siblings who stumble across a mysterious box on the beach which happens to contain a cuddly rabbit transported from a dying planet in a desperate quest for the elixir it needs to revive its people. Previous mimzys, we learn, made it to earth before - most obviously in the late nineteenth/early twentieth century when it landed in the lap of the girl who inspired Lewis Carroll to write Alice in Wonderland (rabbit, geddit?) but failed to complete their mission. Now this merging of fiction with factual history is always something that appeals to me - I like the idea of grand stories unfolding around historical fact unseen by all those who record history, and for a while this film runs with the idea quite well. Then all of a sudden it runs into a brick wall and turns to Spielberg for inspiration. I'm no screenwriter but, to me, the obvious idea would have been to follow the Lewis Carroll/Alice Liddell theme and see where it took me: the options would seem to be far greater in number than simply regurgitating the childlike-alien-relying-on-earthling-children-for-survival storyline from Spielberg's eighties flick.The child male lead looks like the youngest incarnation of Harry Potter until advanced intelligence courtesy of the alien rabbit's bric-a-brac means he no longer needs the specs. For a while he looks as if he's going to be the focus of the film, but it soon switches to his cuter younger sister. There's a hippy type teacher who dreams of winning lottery numbers but neglects to write them down, much to the chagrin of his earth-mother wife. I thought he was going to turn into some sinister nemesis but it turned out he was simply a plot device to explain the situation to the kids' unwitting parents and provide the kids themselves with a lift to the damp squib finale. That's probably where this film's real failing lies: there aren't really any bad guys to root against. Michael Clarke Duncan's FBI agent is the closest we come to a bad guy, but he's really just doing his job and bears no ill will toward the kids or their cuddly alien friend.Bottom line: young kids will love it, older kids will be entertained without being fooled, and most adults will realise that what starts off as a promising tale loses its way badly around the midway mark.