The Last Mimsy

[WayneLigon]

Just got back from seeing this. I give it a solid B+ to A- movie, with only the science teachers wife the only semi-sour note in the whole thing. I can't really imagine why this is a PG movie; there's no violence, cussing, nudity or sexual innuendo. It could easily be G; take your kids to it, easily.

The TV Guide review is probably best.

New Line founder and sometime director Bob Shaye takes "Mimsy Were the Borogroves," Lewis Padgett's very grown-up 1943 fantasy tale about childhood, and transforms it into an intelligent, imaginative children's adventure refreshingly free of rapping cartoon animals, fart jokes and mind-numbing special effects.

 

[Mark CMG]

Sounds like a winner. Thanks for the heads up on it.

 

[Mistwell]

The review on Ebert and Roeper made it sound like it really stank. Glad for a different perspective on this one.

 

[bento]

My wife took our daughter to it while my son and I saw TMNT.

We were all happy with our choices!

 

[frankthedm]

Just got back from seeing this. I give it a solid B+ to A- movie, with only the science teachers wife the only semi-sour note in the whole thing. I can't really imagine why this is a PG movie; there's no violence, cussing, nudity or sexual innuendo. It could easily be G; take your kids to it, easily.

I could see some parents objecting to ”The soul of our planet was dying”, the Government as an enemy and reminding kids hamburger is “chopped up dead cow”.

 

[phoenixgod2000]

Wow! People actually liked the last mimzy

I hated the movie. It wanted to be ET and failed on every level. The government was incompetent instead of scary. The kids seemed confused by their growing abilities when they shouldn't have been. The Teacher and his hippie wife were utterly pointless. the kids were decent enough actors but they were completely cookie cutter characters instead of being half as interesting as they could have been.

The premise of the movie is fantastic and the short story is great. if they had kept the theme of the original story they could have told a science fiction story that was actually meaningful instead of the boring waste it was. I understand that they needed to expand the original story and I don't even mind the plot they came up with. It was just executed horribly. It was such a let down it actually made me a little angry because movie it could have been could have been spectacular.

Read the original story and then go see TMNT.