
The siblings Noah and Emma travel with their mother Jo from Seattle to the family cottage in Whidbey Island to spend a couple of days while their workaholic father David Wilder is working. They find a box of toys from the future in the water and bring it home, and Emma finds a stuffed rabbit called Mimzy, and stones and a weird object, but they hide their findings from their parents. Mimzy talks telepathically to Emma and the siblings develop special abilities, increasing the... (Full plot summary below)
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The siblings Noah and Emma travel with their mother Jo from Seattle to the family cottage in Whidbey Island to spend a couple of days while their workaholic father David Wilder is working. They find a box of toys from the future in the water and bring it home, and Emma finds a stuffed rabbit called Mimzy, and stones and a weird object, but they hide their findings from their parents. Mimzy talks telepathically to Emma and the siblings develop special abilities, increasing their intelligence to the level of genius. Their father becomes very proud when Noah presents a magnificent design in the fair of science and technology, and his teacher Larry White and his mystic wife Naomi Schwartz become interested in the boy when he draws a mandala. When Noah accidentally assembles the objects and activates a powerful generator creating a blackout in the state, the FBI arrests the family trying to disclose the mystery. But Emma reveals the importance to send Mimzy back to the future.
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| Boston GlobeTy BurrFor smart kids between the ages of 8 and 12, the movie hits the sweet spot with a satisfying cosmic bang. It's a cross between "A Wrinkle in Time" and a middle-school version of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." |
| Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyAn involving fantasy for beamish boys and girls - and their parents. |
| New York PostLou LumenickAn unexpectedly disarming, extremely well-cast little variation on "E.T." |
| Miami HeraldPeter DebrugeOn paper, it may sound like high-level calculus, but on screen, The Last Mimzy is perfectly charming. Like "Cocoon" for the elementary-school set, the box transforms Noah and Emma's lives. |
| FilmFocusJoe UtichiClassic kids' fantasy in the spirit of Flight of the Navigator and ET. |
| Sacramento BeeCarla MeyerThe ultimate message of Mimzy seems to be: Help save the world, kids, but do it while enjoying the movie's preferred brand of lemon-lime soda. |
| Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumThe newcomer kids are delightfully...kidlike. Cosmic bonus: "The Office's" Rainn Wilson plays a New Agey science teacher. |
| Los Angeles Daily NewsDavid KronkeA family film combining metaphysical issues, mind-bending special effects and children realizing how dissolute our society is becoming? Sounds like a movie for precocious stoners. |
| Kalamazoo GazetteJames Sanforda fairly suspenseful, thoughtful fantasy. Older viewers might detect traces of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' or even Disney's 'Escape to Witch Mountain'... |
| Mark Reviews MoviesMark DujsikA fun confection of science-fiction and Eastern religious concepts wrapped into a children's film that could just as easily pass as a stoner movie. |