The Last Mimzy (2007)
Genres : Kids/Family, Science Fiction/Fantasy and Adaptation
Tagline : The future is trying to tell us something.
Release Date : March 23rd, 2007 (wide)
MPAA Rating : PG for some thematic elements, mild peril and language.
Runtime : 1 hr. 30 min
Country : USA
Language : English / Spanish
Color : Color
Description : Two children discover a mysterious box that contains some strange devices they think are toys. As the children play with these “toys,” they begin to display higher and higher intelligence levels. Their teacher tells their parents that they seem to have grown beyond genius. Their parents, too, realize something extraordinary is happening. Emma, the younger of the two, tells her confused mother that one of the toys, a beat-up stuffed toy rabbit, is named Mimzy and that “she teaches me things.” As Emma’s mom becomes increasingly concerned, a blackout shuts down the city and the government traces the source of the power surge to Emma’s family’s house. Things quickly spin wildly out of their control. The children are focused on these strange objects, Mimzy, and the important mission on which they seem to have been sent.
When the little girl says that Mimzy contains a most serious message from the future, a scientific scan shows that Mimzy is part extremely high level electronic, and part organic! Everyone realizes that they are involved in something incredible… but exactly what? 
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Review :Two children find toys that make them more intelligent and powerful and send them on an adventure in this fine story for 4th-8th graders and their families. After he plays with the toys, Noah (Chris O’Neil) doesn’t need his glasses any more. He can hit a golf ball like Tiger Woods. Instead of struggling in school, he puts together a science fair project that could earn him a Nobel Prize. Noah’s little sister Emma (Rhiannon Leigh Wryn) can make the rocks that came with the toys spin. She can create some sort of vortex and stick her hand inside, making its atoms come apart. And one of the toys seems to be a kind of a generator, so powerful that it blows out all the electricity in the city.
These are not the kind of toys you can find at the store. Noah and Emma find them in a box washed up on the shore near their family’s weekend home on the coast of Washington state. And shutting down the electricity in Seattle is not something that goes unnoticed, not in these days of the Patriot Act, where, as Noah’s father is reminded by Nathanial Broadman of Homeland Security (Michael Clarke Duncan), the government no longer needs a warrant to search your house.
Noah and Emma will need all of their new powers and the help of some grown-ups — their parents (Timothy Hutton and Joely Richardson) and Noah’s teacher Larry (”The Office’s” Rainn Wilson) and his wife to solve the deeper riddle behind the toys and help save those who sent them.
The very part of the story that is most likely to appeal to children — making the kids the central characters and giving only them the power to save the day — is also its weak point. A great deal rests on its young actors, and Wryrn falters in the big scenes, seeming to be repeating her lines rather than feeling them. The updates to the 1943 short story feel shoehorned in and the scenes of the government coming in to investigate are like an echo of the unforgettably powerful scenes in E.T. But the film wisely does not try to wow the CGI-savvy audience with its special effects, keeping them low-key enough to feel enticingly possible. And its respect for studying science, for taking responsibility for addressing the problems around us, and for family commitment, communication, and loyalty are lessons this toy of a movie teaches very nicely.
Parents should know that this movie has some tense scenes with some mild peril. There is some kissing with a very mild sexual reference and an unmarried couple lives together.
Families who see this movie should talk about the idea of “cultural pollution” and how each of us can take responsibility for protecting our environment and our communities. Why would someone send such an important message in the form of toys?
Families who enjoy this film will also enjoy E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and Edward Eager’s delightful Tales of Magic books. The title of this movie comes from Lewis Carroll’s famous Jabberwockynonsense poem from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.
Distributors : New Line Cinema
Directed by : Robert Shaye
Produced by : Robert Shaye, Justis Greene, Sara Risher
Sound Mix : SDDS / Dolby Digital / DTS
Official Website : www.mimzy.com
Actors :
Rhiannon Leigh Wryn | Emma Wilder/ Emma Wilder
Rainn Wilson | Larry White
Joely Richardson | Jo Wilder
Megan McKinnon | Wendy
Marc Thomas Musso | Harry Jones
Kirsten Williamson | Sheila Broadman
Timothy Hutton | David Wilder
Michael Clarke Duncan | Nathanial Broadman/ Nathanial Broadman
Kathryn Hahn | Naomi Schwartz
Chris O’Neil | Noah Wilder
Irene Snow | Teacher In Meadow/ Teacher In Meadow
Nicole Munoz | Kid with Braces
Scott Miller (III) | School Guard
Randi Lynne | Julie the Babysitter
Tom Heaton | Future Scientist
John Burnside | Future Scintist’s Co-worker
Sam Polin | Armed Cyborg
Philip Brooks | Armed Cyborg
Carlo Fanella | Technician/ Technicians Daniel Bacon
Paul Jarrett | Technician/ Technician Daniel Bacon
Stu Camyar Chai | Utilities Commissioner
Jerry Wasserman | Utilities Commissioner
Fred Keating (II) | Police Captain
Dagmar Midcap (II) | Newscaster
John Shaw (III) | Dr. Arnold Rose
Kaaren De Zilva | Cps Officer
Dave Joshi | Fbi Video Technician
Bruce Harwood (II) | Scientist
Hiro Kanagawa | Scientist
Kathleen Duborg | Scientist
Brian Greene (II) | Intel Scientist
Curtis Caravaggio | Army Officer
Calum Worthy | Teenage Cyborgs
Mackenzie Hamilton | Teenage Cyborg
Caleb Kemble | Chil In Meadow
Elias Calogeros | Child In Meadow
Johnny Coons | Child In Meadow
Graham Walker (V) | Child In Meadow
Evan Leeson | Child In Meadow
Eliana Macfarlane | Child In Medow
Sophia Wik | Child In Meadow
Amanda Wik | Child In Meadow
Elora Penner | Child In Meadow
Sawyer Nicholson | Child In Meadow
Tamatea Westby | Child In Meadow
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Quoted : “gpeltz from southern California”
“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.
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