New Line powerbroker/director Robert Shaye has made a children's film for stoners, a trippy, psychedelic fable that belongs in the DVD section of New Age bookstores alongside the strangely similar What The Fuck Do We Know?
The Last Mimzy
The future is trying to tell us something.
2007 · 1h 34m · PG
Adventure, Drama, Science Fiction
Directed by
Robert Shaye
Overview
Two siblings begin to develop special talents after they find a mysterious box of toys, and soon their parents and even their teacher are drawn into a strange new world – and find a task ahead of them that is far more important than any of them could imagine.
Director and cast
- Robert Shaye Director
- Chris O'Neil as Noah Wilder
- Rhiannon Leigh Wryn as Emma Wilder
- Joely Richardson as Jo Wilder
- Timothy Hutton as David Wilder
- Rainn Wilson as Larry White
- Kathryn Hahn as Naomi Schwartz
- Michael Clarke Duncan as Nathanial Broadman
- Kirsten Alter as Sheila Broadman
- Irene Snow as Teacher in Meadow
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
It's refreshing to be reminded that an intelligent, exciting family movie isn't always an oxymoron.
Occasionally arresting ideas and a non-condescending attitude to its pre-teen protagonists give this more character than many effects-driven family fantasies, even if it's ultimately too wonky in construction to sweep us along convincingly.
The special effects are kinda cheesy, and it's a low-rent E.T.
The Last Mimzy is that phenomenon as welcome as the first robin of spring, a kids' movie that is more than bearable for adults.
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