The Last Mimzy - Saw It, Liked it by Stegasaurus

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The Last Mimzy - Saw It, Liked it

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UPDATED: Monday, July 30, 2007 13:08
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Monday, March 19, 2007 7:22 AM

Went and saw the sneak-peek this past weekend with my daughter.

While obviously a children's movie, quite a bit of the dialogue was geared for the older crowd. They touched upon quite a few political hot buttons.

While the editing left a little to be desired, and the little boy's acting was just a little better than Jake Lloyd's performance in "The Phantom Menace", the special effects were rather good.

All-in-all, I thought it was a good movie, and will likely pick it up when it comes out on DVD for my collection.

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Monday, March 19, 2007 1:25 PM

STEGASAURUS

Oh! and for those who remember me talking about it in the Bridge to Terabithia thread: No, my wife did not join us.

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Tuesday, March 20, 2007 3:18 PM

FLORALBUNNY

Thanks for the review, Stegasaurus.
I've heard it's okay for adults but they
should take a child for "cover."

bun
~Bastards singed my turtle~
~We aim to exponentiate~
~Why Bill Pardy?~

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Tuesday, March 20, 2007 4:09 PM

OUT2THEBLACK

Quote:
Originally posted by FloralBunny:
Thanks for the review, Stegasaurus.
I've heard it's okay for adults but they
should take a child for "cover."

bun

I didn't !

Besides , those chilleruns are usually Waaaay too small to make effective 'cover'...

Pretty cute movie...Buncha good actors...

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" When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."

--Leonardo da Vinci

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Tuesday, March 20, 2007 8:05 PM

FLORALBUNNY

He heeeee! Town the size o' mine everybody
knows you. No getting away with much. So
you gotta grab a fat one, drag it into the
theatre, call it nephew or some such. They
know if it's your own kid, but not always
some other kid in your family...

bun
~bun siggy stuff~

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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 6:05 AM

OUT2THEBLACK

Hey Bunny ,

If you want a 'mimzy' , they were giving some out...

I got one , and a friend got some extras...

Hurry , before we are down to the ' last one '.

P-M a post address , and mimzy's coming your way .

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" When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."

--Leonardo da Vinci

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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 4:57 PM

FLORALBUNNY

out2theblack,

Thanks for the offer. I'm trying to lighten
up on stuff lately. Up to here in stuff. No
way to get into orbit with all this excess.

Reviews of Mimzy: Gene Shalit liked it. That
should help keep it afloat.

Here is a site where one may find photos of
George and Gracie and their kids and other
birds as well, including urban chickens and
Wild Parrots of SF (see 2006):
http://www.raptor-gallery.com
There are a *lot* of photos. One of the best
ways to look is to browse along the bottom and
pick your faves, but know this: you can't always
tell from thumbnails.

(I have no financial interest in that site)

bun
~Bastards singed my turtle~
~We aim to exponentiate~
~Who is Bill Pardy?~

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Wednesday, March 21, 2007 5:03 PM

OUT2THEBLACK

Quote:
Originally posted by FloralBunny:
out2theblack,

Thanks for the offer. I'm trying to lighten
up on stuff lately. Up to here in stuff. No
way to get into orbit with all this excess...

http://www.raptor-gallery.com
bun
~Bastards singed my turtle~
~We aim to exponentiate~
~Who is Bill Pardy?~

No worries...Crawl...Walk...Orbit...That's how it goes...

Keep flyin' , bun...

Understand 'bout the 'stuff'...

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" When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."

--Leonardo da Vinci

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Friday, March 23, 2007 7:40 PM

FINN MAC CUMHAL

*** MILD SPOILERS ***

This review contains a few mild spoilers; nothing that might ruin the story, but some revealing comments. Take note of portion markings on paragraphs.

This movie just came out in Huntsville today, and in order to review this I would have to ask, whether you want the good or the bad first? Since I genuinely liked the movie I’ll start with the bad, so that I can end on a good note.

(CONTAINS MILD SPOILERS) There are some plot holes in this movie deeper then the space-time warps it is about.

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What was the point of the Bunny again? A desperate and dieing population in a diseased world far in the future are attempting to communicate with six year olds from the past? Why did the kids keep their discovery a secret? Children’s intuition. Why did Emma suddenly decided to tell the secret? Evidently, vastly increasing brainpower doesn’t come with common sense. And the whopper, one of the biggest plot holes in the history of plot holes, why did DHS decide, based on nothing more ominous then a few second blackout, that a huge threat to national security requiring enormous violations of DHS protocol and federal law was imminent, but when the regional director himself witnesses the extraordinary display at the end, he shrugs his shoulders and decides nothing is amiss? What in the name of fruity-oatiness is up with that!!??

So the regional director of DHS (Michael Clarke Duncan) is kind of an idiot, but that’s nothing unusual for this movie, because many of the adults seem like idiots. None of the adults in the film seem to stand out very well, and some of them were sort of annoying. The two parents (Timothy Hutton and Joely Richardson) were particularly annoying and unconvincing. Noah’s science teacher and his loopy girl friend were interesting in the beginning with their hippy concern for the Noah’s growing intellect, but became annoying later in the movie.

There was a complicated backstory that never got explained very well. It seemed to tie the little Bunny into a much larger history. Evidently Alice in Wonderland was actually a 19th century reference to one of the various Mimzies that had been sent back in time. And evidently medieval Tibetans knew a thing or two about time travel. Unfortunately, while all of this is potentially intriguing, it wasn’t presented well and came across confusing and distracting.

So there are some pretty big problems with this movie, but as big as these problems are, many of them can be overlooked. Some will struggle with the wacky plot holes and confusing backstory, but children are not likely to examine it that closely and to be fair, I think we have to be forgiving because its intended audience is children. If you can get beyond the problems, there is a very charming story there.

O’Neil and Wryn, while not likely to win any Academy Awards, both did well with their rolls, and since both are almost complete new-comers that says a great deal about their work. Miss Wyrn in particular shines, but both are cute without being overzealous or annoying like the adults, even though some of their dialogue seemed stilted. The little boy wearing his glasses half way down is nose and the little girl with her big brown eyes both managed to pull off some laughs from the audience with humor that was very subtle. Not the embellished stuff that usually accompanies children’s movies. It was clear that there was an attempt (I don’t know how successful it was) to evoke the subtle and charming humor of early Spielberg instead of a more Twilight-Zonish ambiance.

Duncan didn’t impress me too much in this film mostly because of the story, but he was among the better actors, obviously. And I have to say that I think his talents were wasted in this film. He was successful in giving the DHS director some humanity instead of the hackneyed Evil-Government-Black-Ops-X-Files-Type, which was a pleasant surprise. It was nice to see a DHS director played as a human being, because contrary to some of the movies and various fruity Hollywood types they really are, human beings I mean. (I’ve never met the director of DHS, but I have met many big wigs in the intelligence and defense community and most of them are very nice people and don’t deserve the indirect personally attacks given them by Hollywood.)

The special effects were all very convincing and fascinating, and I would say this is the only area in which The Last Mimzy actually rivals or exceeds Bridge to Terabithia. The movie really couldn’t have been successful otherwise, but once again, this is likely to appeal to children more then adults. The special effects bring to life the advanced technology of a futuristic time-traveling society with curious and almost mesmerizing swirling lights and geometric shapes. And more then anything else, it punctuates the stories theme and underlying message about the allure of science and defiant search for knowledge and imagination. It was Einstein that said that imagination is more important then knowledge and I hope some young men and women come away from this charming story with a spark of interest that leads them to find their own “Mimzies.”

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum.

Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.

-- Cicero

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Monday, July 30, 2007 1:08 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

A decent flick. I had no idea what it was about, and the PG-13 rating kinda threw me for a loop, thinking this was a G type kids movie. Which it basically is, I suppose. Things I didn't care for

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The whole 'Homeland Security' crap. C'mon folks, the Federal Gov't has been tossing its weight around long before we had the D.H.S. I know, they wanted to make the movie feel more 'topical' and relevent, but I think it was overly done. Overly in a cheesy, "We're from the Gov't, and we know what's best " kinda way. BFD. They might as well have come in Enviro suits and placed the house under a giant plastic bag, ala E.T.

So,they needed the dna from a 'pure' human, a child. Meh, I get that.... I suppose. But why couldn't Memzy simply have snatched some hair or scraped a few skin cells off the little girl? Why did it have to nearly die and get the girl to cry on it in order to collect ? Please.

Still, it was a fun movie. I liked it much more than Pan's Labyrinth

I'd rate it a 3 out of 5.

People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy. - Joss

" They don't like it when you shoot at 'em. I worked that out myself. "

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