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Starring:
Joely Richardson, Timothy Hutton, Rainn Wilson, Kathryn Hahn, Michael Clarke Duncan, Marc Musso, Tom Heaton, Nicole Muņoz, Randi Lynne, Kirsten Williamson, Megan McKinnon, Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, Chris O'Neil, Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, Irene Snow, Scott E. Miller
Directed By:
Robert Shaye
Written By:
Bruce Joel Rubin, Toby Emmerich
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The Last Mimzy (2007)
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I am the last of my kind!
And if it was the movie saying that, I think we can all breath a sigh of relief. To say this movie was bad is like saying a civil war limb amputation operation hurt a little bit. Not only was this movie bad, but it was just as painful to watch.
Noah and Emma Wilder, two children living in Seattle, were on a trip to Whidbey Island with their parents Jo and David. While playing on the beach they discovered a mysterious box containing strange objects and a stuffed bunny rabbit named Mimzy. The children, thinking the objects were toys brought them back to their house and hid them from their parents. As they played with their new toys, they discovered that they had gained new abilities from them and learned that there was much more to them then they first thought.
Let me start of by talking about the good things in this movie, which won't take long. The CGI and optical effects in this movie are rather good and interesting. The "toys", aside from Mimzy have an organic look to them while still retaining a futuristic technological feel to them. I liked that this movie took place on Whidbey Island because I could see some of the places I used to go on trips to when I was a child, although I never found any future toy boxes.
As for the bad things, they are almost too many to list here. There very idea of Mimzy being a stuffed animal (that looked more likely to have come from 19th century) sent from the distant future was like saying someone from the 23rd century was going to send an abacus (ancient calculator) to the past to help of with our calculation problems. It just seems like a toy robot would have made more sense (despite the fact that this is based on a story written in 1943.)
The acting was terrible. The cast either did not commit to the moment or smothered the moment. Rhiannon Leigh Wryn (HULK) as Emma Wilder was not charming at all and spent the majority of the movie speaking incoherently or crying whenever somebody wanted to look at Mimzy. I know children don't like to share, but this was just a "pull your own hair out/puncture your own eardrums" level of irritating. Chris O'Neil as Noah Wilder was not believable at all in this movie. His reactions seemed labored, as though his parents were off camera holding his favorite toy for ransom and were going to destroy it if he did not at least deliver the correct lines. Timothy Hutton (WHEN A MAN FALLS IN THE FORREST) as David Wilder and Joely Richardson (LIES MY MOTHER TOLD ME) as Jo Wilder were at the very most, believable as parents, but I feel they weren't given the best direction or a good enough script to show they are better then this. Michael Clarke Duncan (DAREDEVIL) as Nathaniel Broadman started of strong, but totally caved by the end of the movie and seemed to apologize to the audience for being in this movie while apologizing to the Wilders for their inconvenience. Rainn Wilson (THE ROCKER) as Larry White was a disappointment in the sense that he is far better than this. He did what he could to make the character likable, but in a sinking ship with no lifeboats or life preservers, there are no survivors. Kathryn Hahn (ANCHORMAN: LEGEND OF RON BURGANDY) as Naomi Schwartz was good as the spacey new age chick, but once again "sinking ship syndrome." The sad thing is that this movie took as long as the Titanic took to sink. All I can do is ask, "Couldn't the Mimzy before this one have been the last?"
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Oct 20, 2007 12:01 PM