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06/04/08
The Last Mimzy (2007)
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Reviews Counted:27
Fresh:14
Rotten:13
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.
Theatrical Release:Mar 23, 2007 Wide
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
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Reviews for The Last Mimzy
Top CriticThe special effects are kinda cheesy, and it’s a low-rent E.T.
03/26/07
Top CriticThe Last Mimzy is that phenomenon as welcome as the first robin of spring, a kids' movie that is more than bearable for adults.
03/26/07
Top CriticWholesome, eager entertainment that doesn't talk down.
03/23/07
Top CriticThe movie grows muddled with too many tedious segments involving adults.
03/23/07
Top CriticThe gentleness of the film is almost unique in this day and age. It's a true family movie, one that adults likely won't groan at when they are told that the problems of the future are because 'our precious quality of humanity had been turned off.'
03/23/07
Top CriticA good-looking, relatively ambitious movie that respects and enhances [sci-fi writer] Kuttner's vision.
03/23/07
Top CriticAn involving fantasy for beamish boys and girls -- and their parents. At moments, Mimzy captures the moonbeam awe of E.T.
03/23/07
Top CriticThe picture grows pretentious in parts and the ending is anticlimactic.
03/23/07
Top CriticAfter a slightly sluggish start, director Shaye directs with assurance, and the kids are delightful.
03/23/07
Top CriticYou'd be far better off tracking down the original tale than trying to untangle Bob Shaye's choppy adaptation.
03/23/07
Top CriticThe film is clearly well-meaning but hampered by the heavy-handed direction of Robert Shaye and egregious use of James Horner's score, constantly cuing the warming of the heart.
03/23/07
Top CriticFails to balance the drama, comedy and supernatural elements. When Mimzy, the bunny, starts whispering orders, this little kid's movie threatens to turn into a horror film.
03/23/07
Top CriticScience in the service of wonder can save a life and a world. And this pleasing, teasing, intelligent family flick can vastly improve a day.
03/23/07
Top CriticYou have to give credit to a film such as Mimzy that, unlike most quick ha-ha, make-a-buck stuff for kids, could actually get them thinking about making a difference in a world in desperate need of change.
03/23/07
Top CriticOn the surface, it sounds like an E.T. clone. Oh, if only. Where Steven Spielberg's 25-year-old masterpiece had heart to spare, Mimzy is an emotionless empty shell.
03/23/07
Top CriticTrue to the emotional reality of its young characters and young audience and flattering the latter into thinking way outside the box. There are worse things to teach than intellectual ambition.
03/23/07
Top CriticSo not only is The Last Mimzy saving the environment but also making a statement on government intrusion into private lives. It's clear director Robert Shaye has an agenda, and it tends to step on the rest of his movie.
03/23/07
Top CriticThe movie strains credibility once the children and their parents are rounded up by a Department of Homeland Security even more incompetent than the real one, but for a family picture this is still superior.
03/22/07
Top CriticGoes about its business with a welcomely wry humor that undercuts the scenario's earnest New Age-y potential. If it isn't always crystal clear about what's on its mind, it speaks its heart in a language that kids totally get.
03/22/07
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