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The Last Mimzy

  • 20072007
  • PGPG
  • 1h 30m
IMDb RATING
6.2/10
22K
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Rhiannon Leigh Wryn and Chris O'Neil in The Last Mimzy (2007)
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Two siblings begin to develop special talents after they find a mysterious box of toys. Soon the kids, their parents, and even their teacher are drawn into a strange new world and find a tas... Read allTwo siblings begin to develop special talents after they find a mysterious box of toys. Soon the kids, their parents, and even their teacher are drawn into a strange new world and find a task ahead of them that is far more important than any of them could imagine!Two siblings begin to develop special talents after they find a mysterious box of toys. Soon the kids, their parents, and even their teacher are drawn into a strange new world and find a task ahead of them that is far more important than any of them could imagine!
IMDb RATING
6.2/10
22K
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    • Robert Shaye
  • Writers
    • Bruce Joel Rubin(screenplay)
    • Toby Emmerich(screenplay)
    • James V. Hart(screen story)
  • Stars
    • Joely Richardson
    • Rainn Wilson
    • Timothy Hutton
    • Robert Shaye
  • Writers
    • Bruce Joel Rubin(screenplay)
    • Toby Emmerich(screenplay)
    • James V. Hart(screen story)
  • Stars
    • Joely Richardson
    • Rainn Wilson
    • Timothy Hutton
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    • 139User reviews
    • 114Critic reviews
    • 59Metascore
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    Chris O'Neil in The Last Mimzy (2007)
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    Joely Richardson
    Joely Richardson
    • Jo Wilder
    Rainn Wilson
    Rainn Wilson
    • Larry White
    Timothy Hutton
    Timothy Hutton
    • David Wilder
    Chris O'Neil
    Chris O'Neil
    • Noah Wilder
    Rhiannon Leigh Wryn
    Rhiannon Leigh Wryn
    • Emma Wilder
    Kathryn Hahn
    Kathryn Hahn
    • Naomi Schwartz
    Michael Clarke Duncan
    Michael Clarke Duncan
    • Nathanial Broadman
    Kirsten Alter
    Kirsten Alter
    • Sheila Broadman
    • (as Kirsten Williamson)
    Irene Snow
    • Teacher in Meadow
    Marc Musso
    Marc Musso
    • Harry
    Nicole Muñoz
    Nicole Muñoz
    • Kid with Braces
    Scott E. Miller
    Scott E. Miller
    • School Guard
    • (as Scott Miller)
    Megan McKinnon
    Megan McKinnon
    • Wendy
    Randi Lynne
    Randi Lynne
    • Julie the Babysitter
    Tom Heaton
    Tom Heaton
    • Future Scientist
    John Burnside
    • Future Scientist's Co-Worker
    Sam Polin
    • Armed Cyborg
    • (as Samuel Polin)
    Phillip Brooks
    • Armed Cyborg
      • Robert Shaye
    • Writers
      • Bruce Joel Rubin(screenplay)
      • Toby Emmerich(screenplay)
      • James V. Hart(screen story)
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    • Trivia
      The giant cockroaches that cover the surveillance camera lens at 71:47 on the DVD are not Computer Generated. Director Robert Shaye mentions in the commentary that the production employed three "cockroach wranglers" to handle the insects.
    • Goofs
      When the Wilders are going to Whidbey Island from Seattle the ferry is shown leaving downtown Seattle (at 06:30 on the DVD) where the only destinations are west going to Bremerton or Bainbridge Island. To take a ferry to Whidbey Island you need to drive 20 miles north to leave from Mukilteo. There is also a ferry from Port Townsend to Whidbey, but to take it the Wilders would have to take the Bainbridge Island ferry 7 miles, drive north 50 miles to Port Townsend, and take that ferry 5 miles east to Whidbey.
    • Quotes

      Noah Wilder: This stuff could be dangerous.

      Emma Wilder: Maybe we should tell someone.

      Noah Wilder: I showed the green glass thing to mom. She thought it was a paperweight. Maybe other people don't see what we see.

    • Crazy credits
      The title of the film does not appear until the end credits.
    • Connections
      Featured in HBO First Look: The Last Mimzy (2007)
    • Soundtracks
      Hello (I Love You)
      Performed by Roger Waters

      Written by Roger Waters and Howard Shore

      Produced by Roger Waters, James Guthrie and Howard Shore

      Roger Waters appears courtesy of Columbia Records

      Special vocal appearance by Rhiannon Leigh Wryn

    User reviews139

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    7/10
    imaginative entertainment with some trippy images and a very good, ET-style heart
    The Last Mimzy doesn't pander needlessly to its core audience, but at the same time it also has a good accomplishment in that it also has an appeal to adults, or at least those that have passed that age of adolescence and look back on childhood with levels of nostalgia and relief that it's over. It delights as well as gives special meaning to putting a level of belief in what is unknown at a time when the rest of the world relies on hard facts and rigid control of personality. It also puts ET to a certain test: can the little creature from another world that needs to get home kind of story hold up to quasi (actually precise) psychedelia? Pink Floyd shirts and Roger Waters aside, this may even have a secret appeal to stoners just as much as your little boy or girl at the movie theater, who will obviously see it in a different life, that of light, efficient irreverence and lots of neat special effects.

    'Mimzy' tells the story of a boy and a girl, Noah and Emma, both at least under the age of 10 but old enough to be articulate enough as well as appropriately secretive in the fantasy they hold paramount, who come upon a strange rock from the ocean. In it lies a bunch of fragments, and, oddly enough, a stuffed, fluffy, cute bunny named Mimzy, who Emma takes as her most important possession. Noah meanwhile becomes transfixed with the new powers that soon come to him via these rocks: he can hear the smallest insect, and is transfixed by obscure designs. This strikes up the attention of his parents as well as his science teacher (Rainn Wilson), who also knows of the symbols Noah makes up. But after a power outage- it also happens to be a generator that Noah conjures- gets the attention of the government, not sure what exactly is going on. Emma has a problem, however, in that Mimzy, her closest confidant and "teacher" is dying and needs to get back home. That's the basic story, anyway, as there are little ins and outs as the story goes on, including a great product placement for Sprite, and a montage-free example of each child's new abilities.

    Some of this may be a little preposterous, even goofy, but Bob Shaye and his team bypass the obvious but still perilous pit-falls for filmmakers investing themselves into children's movies. No truly stupid gags, nothing with bodily excretions, none of that really, and if anything the humor, of a little wild and over-the-top in variety (some of which I was laughing at alone while the other kids were silent), is innocent and sort of knowing of the split of imagination between children and adults. The two kids are also very good at playing their parts, with Wryn as Emma very adept at being vulnerable and smart, and O'Neil being almost too close to looking like the boy Elliot in ET, however not without his own strengths. Shaye sometimes lets his control slip in just simple things like cinematography or making a fitting enough ending (too many futuristic hippies me thinks), and the goofiness does teeter on becoming a little too much. But I responded more to how the power of taking a long repeated idea, of kids becoming changed by outside forces in a very real world, and there being a sort of little twist to it all. It's not just about making friends and gaining in some alien intelligence, but in figuring the significance of the future, however weird it might be. It's definitely the finest children's movie, non-animated, to come out so far in 2007. 7.5/10
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    • Release date
      • March 23, 2007 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
      • Spanish
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      • Seattle, Washington, USA
    • Production companies
      • New Line Cinema
      • Michael Phillips Productions
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    • 1 hour 30 minutes
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