Another kids movie, this one also reminded me of old Disney movies like, "Escape to Witch Mountain." In this movie, a pre-adolescent boy meets a like-aged girl who has just moved in next door. They both don't fit at school and develop a friendship. She has two writers for parents and evidently therefrom, a vivid imagination. Sufficiently vivid that, in the movie, it becomes real, though the movie does not expect you to believe that what you are seeing is real.
Both my 5 year old and 7 year old liked the movie. It has some sad moments that might take some explaining, but, as with Mimsy, no blood or gore, no sex and no foul language that I remember with the possible exception of what might have occurred in some school scenes. The boy comes from the poorest of poor families which is a plot point and so that might take some explaining, as well in this age of abundance.
The movie was not what I expected. The fantasy world was clearly the product of the kid's imagination and not especially well explored. I expected more time in that world walking into the movie. The special effects were not garish or over-done and suited the movie. I have not read the book. I tend to like good children's novels (A Wrinkle in Time, Watership Down, The Hobbit, etc.) The movie makes me think I might like this one.
I'm not sorry I took the kids, nor am I sorry I saw this in the Theater. I still would like to see the movie that I thought I was going to see, though.
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Saturday, March 31, 2007
March 31 - The Last Mimzy
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.
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.
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
March 13 - 300
No one expects a marauding Persian horde.
I have precisely two things to say about 300:
1) It has no moral ambiguity whatsoever.
2) Go see it (but, don't take your wife, probably.)
3) Its sole negative is the cinematography, but maybe you'd like it. I prefer attempts at pseudo-realism such as in the Lord of the Rings to the grainy, artsy images in 300.
O.K. Three things.
4) The plot is pretty good, and the battle scenes are very well choreographed and dramatic.
Four. Four things.
5) The movie has an element of the fantastic to it in that creatures that don't exactly exist show up.
Fine, five things. There. Done. Bring out the comfy chair, I've got a movie to watch.
I have precisely two things to say about 300:
1) It has no moral ambiguity whatsoever.
2) Go see it (but, don't take your wife, probably.)
3) Its sole negative is the cinematography, but maybe you'd like it. I prefer attempts at pseudo-realism such as in the Lord of the Rings to the grainy, artsy images in 300.
O.K. Three things.
4) The plot is pretty good, and the battle scenes are very well choreographed and dramatic.
Four. Four things.
5) The movie has an element of the fantastic to it in that creatures that don't exactly exist show up.
Fine, five things. There. Done. Bring out the comfy chair, I've got a movie to watch.
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