I looked forward to seeing “The Last Mimzy,” thinking we were going to get a light, whimsical fantasy story. Quite frankly, it freaked me out.
Noah and Emma Wilder are two average children, until one day when they find a unique box floating in the ocean while on vacation. They open it to discover a variety of strange objects, the least strange being a stuffed rabbit. Emma immediately takes a shine to the rabbit, and says the rabbit is talking to her and has told her that her name is Mimzy. From that moment on, Emma doesn’t let Mimzy out of her sight. Noah is more attracted to the other items in the box and spends hours playing with them.
The more time the children spend in contact with these items, the more strange things start to happen. Noah doesn’t need his glasses anymore, and he finds he can talk to spiders. Emma can make the rocks from the box spin, and as they spin they create a force field. When she sticks her hand into the force field, her hand turns into millions of tiny particles, only to return to normal when she removes her hand.
Noah’s science teacher notices him doodling in class one day, and looks at the picture. Noah has drawn a replica of an ancient Tibetan design which is a symbol of a pathway between worlds, although he’s never seen the design in his life.
As it turns out, Mimzy was sent as a messenger from the future. Her people are dying and need something that only someone from our time can give them, and once she has that, she must go back.
There were a lot of elements to this movie that disturbed me. The things the kids were doing weren’t cute – they were freaky, and when the parents find out about it, they think so too. The FBI storms the house and drags the family off, which was freaky. When Emma goes to return Mimzy, her hand gets caught in the transportation beam and nearly drags her off with it, and it was freaky. (You know what – I think I thought it was freaky.) The contention between the children was anything but entertaining. We also see a moment of smooching between the science teacher and his fiancé that was a little too intimate for a family film.
If you’re an adult, this movie is interesting. However, I wouldn’t recommend that a child see it, even if it was advertised as a children’s movie. It’s just not.
This film was rated PG.
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