RedFlameOut’s Musings

The Last Mimzy is a whimsical and fun movie, especially for children. The plot revolves around two siblings, Noah and Emma Wilder, who find a strange box floating in the water near their family’s vacation home.

Inside the box they find toys. The two children begin developing strange abilities after opening the box.

A stuffed bunny speaks to Emma and forms the basis of a lot of conflict in the movie between the parents, Emma, and later the US government.

Noah figures out that two of the “toys” react when near each other and end up combining into another toy. This causes a power surge the blacks out all of the city.

The Department of Homeland Security tracks down the source of the power outage to the family home and takes them all into custody.

The children manage to escape and return to their vacation home to retrieve one of the toys that fell and rolled under a bed. They need the toy because they had figured out that the stuffed bunny is actually a non-biological, living toy called a Mimzy sent from the future. They need to send it back to save humanity and ultimately succeed.

I need to mention a special feature of the widescreen version of the movie I watched. It includes a feature called Infinifilm.

You enable the feature when you start watching the movie. If you enable it, during the movie prompts will pop up allowing you to view extra content on the DVD. The extra content is also available as extra feature content through the DVD menus.

If you chose to watch the extra content, the movie will start up where it left off when you start the optional content. I found it useful after watching the movie once without it enabled to go back and watch it again with it enabled to see the behind the scenes content and commentary. It gives a new perspective to the movie and what it took to make it.

My rating [5 of 5]
Rated PG or some thematic elements, mild peril and language.
Released 2007
Released to DVD 2007
Director Robert Shaye (Wikipedia)
Main character Actors:

• Chris O’Neil as Noah Wilder (Wikipedia)
• Rhiannon Leigh Wryn as Emma Wilder (Wikipedia)
• Joely Richardson as the mother, Jo Wilder (Wikipedia)
• Timothy Hutton as the father, David Wilder (Wikipedia)

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0768212/
Buy on Amazon.com: The Last Mimzy (Widescreen Infinifilm Edition)