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Title: The Last Mimzy (2007)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Chris O'Neil | ... | Noah Wilder | |
| Rhiannon Leigh Wryn | ... | Emma Wilder | |
| Joely Richardson | ... | Jo Wilder | |
| Timothy Hutton | ... | David Wilder | |
| Rainn Wilson | ... | Larry White | |
| Kathryn Hahn | ... | Naomi Schwartz | |
| Michael Clarke Duncan | ... | Nathanial Broadman | |
| Kirsten Alter | ... | Sheila Broadman (as Kirsten Williamson) | |
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Irene Snow | ... | Teacher in Meadow |
| Marc Musso | ... | Harry | |
| Nicole Muñoz | ... | Kid with Braces | |
| Scott E. Miller | ... | School Guard (as Scott Miller) | |
| Megan McKinnon | ... | Wendy | |
| Randi Lynne | ... | Julie the Babysitter | |
| Tom Heaton | ... | Future Scientist | |
The siblings Noah and Emma travel with their mother Jo from Seattle to the family cottage in Whidbey Island to spend a couple of days while their workaholic father David Wilder is working. They find a box of toys from the future in the water and bring it home, and Emma finds a stuffed rabbit called Mimzy, and stones and a weird object, but they hide their findings from their parents. Mimzy talks telepathically to Emma and the siblings develop special abilities, increasing their intelligences to the level of genius. Their father becomes very proud when Noah presents a magnificent design in the fair of science and technology, and his teacher Larry White and his mystic wife Naomi Schwartz become interested in the boy when he draws a mandala. When Noah accidentally assembles the objects and activates a powerful generator creating a blackout in the state, the FBI arrests the family trying to disclose the mystery. But Emma unravels the importance to send Mimzy back to the future. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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If I were to come up with a one sentence of "The Last Mimzy" it would be: New age tree hugging proselytizing wrapped in a children's film.
Deploying a panoply of New Age pablums such as the interconnectedness of the universe and a kind of whitebread version of Far East mysticism, "The Last Mimzy" is nonetheless fun and stimulating to watch. Anything that can theoretically challenge the dumbing down of my children by the Disney Channel is, frankly, welcome.
My daughter, a very bright girl if I do say so, was mentally energized after seeing "The Last Mimzy" and couldn't stop talking about it. Five points minimum right there.
The visuals strike me vaguely as derivative of Bucky Fuller's concept of Synergistics or the Dymaxion, concepts which were precursors to his famous geodesic domes - the sum being greater than the parts basically.
At its best, this film engages the imagination of both adults and children. The premise--a bunny sent back in time to save all of humanity--on its surface seems very silly, but somehow it works. It works because we know intuitively that children are often the only ones with the innocence and purity and that certain clarity of intelligence to communicate seemingly impossible ideas - the faith of a child in action. The people of the future still understand this too.
I didn't find Mimzy's "New Agey" feel overdone and it worked cleverly for its intended premise.
One thing that was very wrong about the movie was the overt product placement of Intel in a particular scene Though I suspect Intel rarely gets a chance where product placement even makes sense in a movie it was really inappropriate.
Still, an extremely worthwhile film amid today's teen-oriented drivel.