The Last Mimzy: Difference between revisions

 

A 2007 film centered around Noah Wilder, a video game-loving, somewhat irritable young man who believes that "school sucks, life sucks, and [he] suck[s]", and his sensitive and precocious younger sister Emma Wilder. While on vacation with their parents over spring break, Noah and Emma find a box filled with strange objects that are incomprehensible to them except for a stuffed rabbit named Mimzy that can communicate with Emma. Sensing that there is something odd about their find, they keep it a secret from their parents, particularly after Noah tries to show a translucent rock filled with constantly shifting green triangles to his mother and it appears to her to be a normal rock. Emma becomes emotionally attached to Mimzy as the mysterious objects begin to give the siblings psychic abilities and increase their mental capacities to genius level. Noah's science teacher Larry and his mystic wife Naomi get involved when Larry notices that Noah has been drawing mandalas, and the situation becomes serious when Noah accidentally assembles the objects into a generator that causes a blackout in the entire city of Seattle. The FBI discovers the source of the surge and the Wilder family members are arrested; meanwhile, Emma has elucidated that Mimzy and the other objects were sent from the future, and it is up to her and Noah to figure out how to send Mimzy back to her own time and save humanity's future.

 

* [[Adaptation Decay]]: The film is loosely based upon the short story "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore, writing under the joint pseudonym of Lewis Padgett, which is regarded as a classic of golden age science fiction. Some of the story's general plot elements were left intact, but many key details were removed or dumbed-down and the original dark ending was replaced with a fluffy environmental aesop.

** Strands of DNA do not float around freely in tears, and tears are mostly water and salt, but a few cells are probable, especially after said tears have rolled down a person's face. Quickly locating and extracting DNA from those cells is only impossible with current biotechnology.

* [[You Fail Law Forever]]: SWAT teams ''storm the house''. They corral ''everyone'' in the living room. But the little girl in this family you were told to contain with extreme prejudice asks to get something out of her room? ''Of course'' she can go up unsupervised.

* [[Bad Bad Acting]]: The child actors who play Noah and Emma are excellent, but the parents' acting is painful at times.

* [[Big No]]: Emma's reaction when her mom tries to make her throw away Mimzy. Thankfully, Noah rescues Mimzy and the toys from the dumpster later.

* [[Companion Cube]]: When Emma gets attached to Mimzy, she starts carrying her everywhere. Emma even becomes very distressed when separated from Mimzy for any length of time.

* [[Crapsack World]]: The future from which Mimzy comes.

** [[Everythings Better With Bunnies]]: But she's so cute!

* [[Humans Are Psychic in The Future]]: Well, not the [[Crapsack World]] future from which Mimzy was sent, but an even later future in which a teacher tells the story of Emma and Noah to an assembled class.

** Justified because {{spoiler|Emma gains psychic powers from the objects from the future and then gives some of her DNA to Mimzy. Said DNA was then used to "cure" the sick people of the future, and presumably was responsible for their new abilities.}}