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Director: Robert Shaye
Starring: Chris O’Neil, Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, Joely Richardson, Timothy Hutton, Rainn Wilson, Kathryn Hahn, Michael Clarke Duncan
The Last Mimzy is a slow moving, overly complex attempt at an E.T. style family drama that somehow ended up with a PG rating. The acting is fine, with the two young leads doing a good job, but the story unfolds slowly and never manages to generate enough tension or humour (there is really no humor that I recall) to hold the viewer’s attention as it does so. There is nothing to draw this effort out of the crowd of films striving for the family film buck
Noah and Emma Wilder are a young brother and sister (Neil and Wryn) who find a mysterious box during a family beach outing. Items in the box soon show themselves to have (and give) abilities to the youngsters, as their parents (Richardson and Hutton) gradually grow concerned. They are not alone in taking note of these changes. Noah’s science teacher, (Wilson) along with his Tibetan Buddhist fiancée (Hahn) get involved, as well as government forces led by Nathaniel Broadman (Clarke). As you may have guessed, having this many characters any real character development and focusing on fewer characters with better dialogue would have improved this film.
If you took Phenomenon and crossed it with E.T., that would give you some idea what to expect here, but without a tighter script it is not worth renting unless one of your kids is holding the box and looking at you like the waterworks are about to start. This movie is so mediocre that I had to struggle to remember it long enough to write a review.
