What’s more, the rabbit’s name is Mimzy, which Emma knows because it talks to her in a curiously adorable purr-growl that only she can hear or understand. Upon opening it, they find that it contains a collection of weird objects, along with a stuffed bunny rabbit that Emma quickly claims as her own.Īt first, these things are just really cool toys – each has some sort of strange ability attached to it, such as teleporting things, levitation, and talking to bugs.
Things take a decided turn for the stranger, though, when he and his sister find an odd-looking box half-buried in the sand. Oh sure, he’s got a few gripes, but they’re ones a lot of other ten-year-olds can relate to – his sister Emma (Rhiannon Leigh Wryn) gets on his nerves at times, his dad (Timothy Hutton) is a bit of a workaholic who is seldom around, and, oh yeah, he’s spending spring break with his family at the beach instead of hanging out with his friends. At least, it was for me.Īs the story opens, Noah Wilder (Chris O’Neil) is living a pretty normal life. Such a movie, in case you hadn’t guessed by now, was The Last Mimzy. You remember them a bit later, and you wonder ‘just what happened to such-and-such? It was cool’ – and yet apparently only you and a handful of others even remember it. I’m not talking about movies that you thought were good, but which flopped hard I’m talking about ones that do their time in the theaters and then just sort of vanish into rental obscurity. You see them when they first come out, you think ‘that was pretty good’, you recommend them to your friends, and you expect them to achieve the success that they clearly deserve. You probably know what I’m talking about.
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Lots of stuff happens.ĭeneb’s rating: 4.8 blue sluggy-thingies out of five.ĭeneb’s review: Movie watching is an all-but-ubiquitous pastime these days, and into just about everyone’s life there will eventually come at least a few movies that could best be described as The Ones That Got Away. Summary Capsule: Two kids lay their hands on a toy box from the future. Tagline: The future is trying to tell us something. The Scoop: 2007 PG, directed by Robert Shaye and starring Chris O’Neil, Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, Joely Richardson, Timothy Hutton, Rainn Wilson, Kathryn Hahn and Michael Clarke Duncan. And whenever developments threaten to push the boundaries of credibility a little too far, Wilson’s character reins in the excess with his sardonic line delivery.īut even he can’t salvage a jarringly clunky bit of product placement concerning Mimzy’s internal make-up that yanks older viewers out of the mythology with little time left to bring them back into the fold.įortunately, Shaye ultimately manages to win enough of them over with the help of his inventive visual effects team, his energetic cast and a gently expansive Howard Shore score, assuring “Mimzy” a promising future.“I looked through the Looking Glass, Mommy. Viewers willing to go along for the ride should be agreeably charmed by the yarn. White (“The Office’s” Rainn Wilson), who detects a higher purpose in the boy’s complex geometric doodles that bear an eerie resemblance to the ancient configurations that keep popping up in his dreams.Įmma, meanwhile, has been picking up telepathically on Mimzy’s warnings regarding the survival of the inhabitants of the future and has to act fast before special government agent Nathaniel Boardman (Michael Clarke Duncan), who’s investigating the source of a citywide blackout, gets to her. It’s a development that doesn’t go unnoticed by Noah’s teacher, Mr. Opting not to share their discovery with their workaholic dad (Timothy Hutton) and overly cautious mom (Joely Richardson), siblings Noah (Chris O’Neil) and Emma (Rhiannon Leigh Wryn) soon discover that playing with the newfound objects has a profound effect on their intelligence levels. Here, the Mimzy in question is an innocuous-looking, well-traveled toy bunny found among mysterious items in a box that turns up floating behind the Wilder family waterfront vacation home in Seattle. The original title took its cue from a line in Lewis Carroll’s poem “Jabberwocky.”
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While the Shaye picture, which was given an advance preview in conjunction with a New Line 40-year retrospective conversation hosted by Sundance director Geoffrey Gilmore, won’t be phoning home those “E.T.” figures, “Mimzy” packs sufficient whimsy to make it a solid performer when it lands in theaters on March 23.ĭespite the spelling change, screenwriters Bruce Joel Rubin (“Ghost”) and Toby Emmerich (“Frequency”) are unlikely to offend many purists in their update of the original work, about a box of educational toys that have been sent back from the future to the present.
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