My Thoughts on "The Last Mimzy"

Well, here are my thoughts on the movie the "Last Mimzy", which I saw while I was in Nebraska with Allie and her family.

The consensus was: it was retarded.

I wasn't exactly sure what to expect. I saw one trailer that made it look like it was some kind of horror movie and another one that made it look like a lovely family film.

The movie had lots of potential but failed to live up to it. It was really cool at first but...it just got really weird...

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The sending objects back through time thing was really cool but it just got to mystical and weird. [Too mystical as in palm-reading, meditating, etc.--The palm-reading was when I REALLY started to feel wrong about it.]

The main characters are a young brother and sister who find some mysterious objects while on the beach near their parents house. The objects begin to have strange affects on them--giving them different abilties. The girl [a very cute little girl] says the stuffed bunny they found is talking to her and she is able to suspend things in the air--including herself--while the boy is suddenly a genius (he was struggling before). I thought, "Ooh, interesting."

Then they introduced some other characters--the boy's science teacher and his live-in girlfriend. It starts out with the girlfriend meditating on the floor--yeah, lovely, isn't it? The science teacher talks about weird dreams he's been having. They acted wacky enough that I thought maybe they'd just be some kind of wacky characters--but no, they were actually characters you were supposed to take seriously. The science teacher takes particular interest in drawings that the boy's been drawing in class of some kind of weird Tibetan thing--has to do with the science teacher and his girlfriend's religion and with the plot of the story as it pertains to the little boy and girl. Then the girlfriend reads the palms of the boy and girl--ooh, loveliness. Yeah, I don't think so....That's when I started being like, "What???"

Yeah, so it was a little weird...


The movie was completely based on environmental propaganda [using a two-headed snake as proof--makes you want to gag] and New Age-y stuff. UGH! I must say I was a bit [well, more than a bit] disappointed and weirded out. The ending was AWFUL and unrealistic [the government officials wouldn't just leave and say "yeah, sorry--oops!" and little children flying around in the future after having school among the fields of flowers???].

It was definitely unlike any movie I've ever seen--but not in a good way. Needless to say, I don't recommend it at all--I was VERY, VERY disapointed.

Did I mention that it was weird? Like, really, REALLY weird????