Here's what critics have to say about The Last Mimzy, perhaps one of the strangest movies I've seen in a long time:
"For a movie aimed at kids, The Last Mimzy is really weird. How weird? Roger Waters does the film's original song, that's how weird. The film is a fun confection of science-fiction and Eastern religious concepts wrapped into a children's film that could just as easily pass as a stoner movie."
- Mark Dujsik, independent critic
"The Last Mimzy is a mess. It is overstuffed with everything from futuristic technology to psychic powers to Eastern mysticism to Lewis Carroll... Noah can create noises that control the movement of spiders; Emma has the power of telekinesis and can also penetrate an inter-dimensional nexus created by the spinning rocks from their new 'tox box.'"
- Stax, IGN
[*The meat analogies in this next one win the gold star*]
"'Mimsy Were the Borogroves,'" Kuttner & Moore's terrifying parable about the loss of innocence and the ending of childhood, is chopped up, its dark meat bleached until, like a chicken leg, it is converted into a breaded chicken nugget...Toss in a liberal amount of Nepalese mysticism and CGI and add in a paranoid government that locks up four-year-olds under the Patriot Act and you have this mandala-shaped piece of mystery meat.
- imdb.com
"This weird, and weirdly entertaining, movie will be, for a certain brand of nerd-kid, what 2001 must have been for drug-addled hippies. It's a freakout for sci-fi-oriented 10-year-olds with a propensity for being fascinated by New Age alternative spiritualities and physics and for reading books like The Elegant Universe before they're really ready."
- Dave White, movies.com
Yep, that pretty much sums it up: a really weird yet entertaining, inter-dimensional nexus freakout stoner chicken nugget movie. Mimzy!
Monday, March 26, 2007
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