Upon opening it, they find that it contains a collection of weird objects, along with a stuffed bunny rabbit that Emma quickly claims as her own.Īt first, these things are just really cool toys – each has some sort of strange ability attached to it, such as teleporting things, levitation, and talking to bugs.
Things take a decided turn for the stranger, though, when he and his sister find an odd-looking box half-buried in the sand. Oh sure, he’s got a few gripes, but they’re ones a lot of other ten-year-olds can relate to – his sister Emma (Rhiannon Leigh Wryn) gets on his nerves at times, his dad (Timothy Hutton) is a bit of a workaholic who is seldom around, and, oh yeah, he’s spending spring break with his family at the beach instead of hanging out with his friends. At least, it was for me.Īs the story opens, Noah Wilder (Chris O’Neil) is living a pretty normal life. Such a movie, in case you hadn’t guessed by now, was The Last Mimzy. You remember them a bit later, and you wonder ‘just what happened to such-and-such? It was cool’ – and yet apparently only you and a handful of others even remember it. I’m not talking about movies that you thought were good, but which flopped hard I’m talking about ones that do their time in the theaters and then just sort of vanish into rental obscurity. You see them when they first come out, you think ‘that was pretty good’, you recommend them to your friends, and you expect them to achieve the success that they clearly deserve. You probably know what I’m talking about. Lots of stuff happens.ĭeneb’s rating: 4.8 blue sluggy-thingies out of five.ĭeneb’s review: Movie watching is an all-but-ubiquitous pastime these days, and into just about everyone’s life there will eventually come at least a few movies that could best be described as The Ones That Got Away. Summary Capsule: Two kids lay their hands on a toy box from the future. Tagline: The future is trying to tell us something. The Scoop: 2007 PG, directed by Robert Shaye and starring Chris O’Neil, Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, Joely Richardson, Timothy Hutton, Rainn Wilson, Kathryn Hahn and Michael Clarke Duncan. “I looked through the Looking Glass, Mommy.
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