The film’s poster displays the tagline: “The future wants to tell us something,” well, WHAT? What does it want to say? Because the movie certainly never lets us know. They find a box of toys from the future in the water and bring it home, and Emma finds a stuffed rabbit called Mimzy, and stones. Ultimately, we’re left with too many unanswered questions as to Mimzy’s origins and the overall purpose of some of the toys. Synopsis: The siblings Noah and Emma travel with their mother Jo from Seattle to the family cottage in Whidbey Island to spend a couple of days while their workaholic father David Wilder is working. Particularly because the ending never justifies the glacial pace, since the climax doesn’t really have anything to do with the first hour of the film. At first, the strange toys and talents the children acquire are fascinating, but after seeing Emma molecularize her hand with the spinning rocks six times, we’re not that impressed. Like so many sci-fi movies, The Last Mimzy has an incredibly interesting set-up but winds up asking the audience to suspend their disbelief just a little too much…and I’m not just talking about buying Michael Clarke Duncan as an FBI counter-terrorist agent. With the FBI now on their trails, Noah and Emma work with Noah’s eccentric science teacher to try to discover Mimzy’s purpose before it’s too late. As they struggle to discover the source of their children’s newfound talents, Noah accidentally creates a generator that blacks out the entire city. Wilder begin to think that something suspicious is going on. The siblings Noah and Emma travel with their mother Jo from Seattle to the family cottage in Whidbey Island to spend a couple of days while their workaholic. Meanwhile, the children begin to display an extraordinary level of intelligence (every parent’s nightmare!) and Mr.
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