I took the kids to see The Last Mimzy, today. My 5 year old was restless and my 7 year old was attentive. There are no monsters, no blood or gore, no sex and no foul language that I remember in the movie.
The movie was somewhat reminiscent of various Disney movies of my youth. The story was somewhat new but not too involved. There was an eco-social political message behind the plot, but it was not too terribly overt.
The story goes that mankind at some time and place in the future has poisoned itself to the point where it is about to become extinct, the exact nature of the poison is not revealed. The only way to fix this is to send things to the past to collect what is necessary. Several times they've tried and several times they've failed. This movie is the story about the last attempt to collect what they need by sending the last mimzy to the past.
The story tells the tale of a brother and sister who find the last mimzy and start discovering it's powers and ultimately learn they have to do something with it.
There are no complex twists or turns in the story. Aside from the kids, the characters are not particularly well developed. The special effects were quite nice and fitting for the story at hand.
The movie takes it's name from Lewis Carroll's Poem, Jabberwockey, that begins:
Twas brillig and the slithy toves,
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe,
All mimsy were the borogroves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
The little girl finds a stuffed bunny inside the Mimzy. She names the bunny Mimzy (or the bunny tells her its name is Mimzy.) Aside from the title, the sole link to Lewis Carrol's "Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There" in which the poem is found, is the picture of Alice holding a stuffed rabbit that looks the one the girl in this movie finds.
The movie was worthwhile for taking the kids. I recommend waiting for rental otherwise and then only if you enjoy sci-fi/fantasy.
Oh yeah, Intel has some crass commercialism show up in an all-too-impossible to miss cameo intrinsic to the story, ugh.
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