Average Rating: 5.8/10
Reviews Counted: 122
Fresh: 65 | Rotten: 57
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.
Average Rating: 5.7/10
Critic Reviews: 29
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 15
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.
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New Line Cinema founder Robert Shaye's directorial debut, the family-friendly science-fiction tale The Last Mimzy is an adaptation of a short story by Lewis Padgett. The story concerns a young brother and sister, Noah and Emma Wilder (Chris O'Neil and Rhiannon Leigh Wryn), who discover a strange box of artifacts one day while vacationing at the family's summer cottage. When the objects in the box begin to act in strange and mysterious ways, the pair decides to hide it from their mother (Joely
PG, 1 hr. 36 min.
Mar 18, 2007 Wide
Jul 10, 2007
$21.4M
New Line Cinema
All Critics (124) | Top Critics (29) | Fresh (67) | Rotten (58) | DVD (15)
The special effects are kinda cheesy, and it's a low-rent E.T.
The Last Mimzy is that phenomenon as welcome as the first robin of spring, a kids' movie that is more than bearable for adults.
Wholesome, eager entertainment that doesn't talk down.
The movie grows muddled with too many tedious segments involving adults.
The 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.'
A good-looking, relatively ambitious movie that respects and enhances [sci-fi writer] Kuttner's vision.
Does an excellent job both making science fiction accessible for a younger audience.
Classic kids' fantasy in the spirit of Flight of the Navigator and ET.
I like to refer to it as "Donnie Darko" sans the violence if aimed towards kids...
Considering that parts are frightening, parts are nauseatingly sweet, and it's all confusing, it's not clear which demographic Mimzy is aiming for.
O'Neil and Wryn convey the occult and the mysterious with greater depth than you'd expect them to possess at their respective ages of 13 and 7.
Slight.
Quirky sci-fi adventure best for fantasy lovers.
For much of its scant 96 minutes Mimzy is rudderless in a muddle of metaphysical malarkey and time-travelling science fiction.
Mimsy seems watered down and limp, especially as it concludes.
...too commonplace and too derivative to make much of an impact.
...tries hard to be magical, charming, and endearing but remains mostly flat and lifeless.
A special-effects driven spectacular which still ought to hold the tykes in wide-eyed thrall, if being a bit too scattered in scope to recommend as adult fare.
A timely cautionary tale, even if its heartwarming message gets a little garbled along the way.
The Last Mimzy teases with its intent to spook adults rather than the little ones with these found kid playthings.
Incidentally, forget the toys, which seem to be upstaged by Wilson's underwear, reportedly the most expensive drawers ever in a movie.
Made me cry of course since i was watching it with my daughter and she cried.
April 2, 2007Super Reviewer
Good+
July 20, 2011Super Reviewer
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