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THE LAST
MIMZY - PREVIEW
 The
Last Mimzy
(2007)
Starring: Joely Richardson, Timothy Hutton, Michael Clarke Duncan, Rainn
Wilson, Kathryn Hahn, Chris O’Neil, Rhiannon Leigh Wryn
Director: Bob Shaye
Opening Date: 23 March 2007
THEY SAY
Based on the acclaimed sci-fi short story by Lewis
Padgett, The Last Mimzy tells the story of two children who discover a
mysterious box that contains some strange devices they think are toys. As
the children play with these “toys,” they begin to display higher and
higher intelligence levels. Their teacher tells their parents that they
seem to have grown beyond genius. Their parents, too, realize something
extraordinary is happening. Emma, the younger of the two, tells her
confused mother that one of the toys, a beat-up stuffed toy rabbit, is
named Mimzy and that “she teaches me things.” As Emma’s mom becomes
increasingly concerned, a blackout shuts down the city and the government
traces the source of the power surge to Emma’s family’s house. Things
quickly spin wildly out of their control. The children are focused on
these strange objects, Mimzy, and the important mission on which they seem
to have been sent. When the little girl says that Mimzy contains a most
serious message from the future, a scientific scan shows that Mimzy is
part extremely high level electronic, and part organic! Everyone realizes
that they are involved in something incredible…but exactly what?
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WE SAY
Arriving with little fanfare or
hype – there are no real big names in it nor does it promise to be a
special effects extravaganza and then there’s title! – The Last Mimzy
looks set to be an understated sci-fi drama in the early Steven Spielberg
Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind and
E.T. mode. An ‘Eighties movie for the
2000’s then? Anyway, there are so few movies boasting proper science
fiction credentials nowadays that anything based on a sci-fi short story
instead of a video game deserves our immediate support, even though we
don't know the short story by Henry
Kuttner it’s based on.
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