The Last Mimzy

PG

Released Mar 23, 2007

1 hr. 38 min.

Kids & Family

Fantasy

Adventure

List

55%

126 Reviews

Tomatometer

54%

250,000+ Ratings

Audience Score

Siblings Emma (Rhiannon Leigh Wryn) and Noah (Chris O'Neil) discover a box full of strange items they believe are toys. As the children play with the objects, their parents (Joely Richardson, Timothy Hutton) and a teacher (Rainn Wilson) notice that their intelligence level is growing by leaps and bounds. Emma reveals that her favorite toy, a stuffed rabbit called Mimzy, talks to her and has an important message from the future.

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Critics Consensus

The Last Mimzy makes efforts to be a fun children's movie, but unsuccessfully juggles too many genres and subplots -- eventually settling as an unfocused, slightly dull affair.

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Dolly D

I love this movie very much even though it feels like a fever dream and makes absolutely no sense (and kind of made me feel like I was on drugs or some shit) I hold this movie very dear to my heart even if it is insane

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

07/26/23

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Cyrus K

I will give credit to this movie that it actually tries to be a good kids movie. But sadly it ends up feeling generic, Overstuffed with side plots and genres, and overall just feeling as if it could have come from any other studio and could have been better.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

12/09/22

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Audience Member

Full of comedy, original fantasy & sweet kissing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/28/23

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Audience Member

I absolutely loved this movie when it came out, I was 5 years old. I watched again at 20 years old and im glad to say it holds up. It feels magical to watch and was an excellent introduction to sifi as a youth.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/17/23

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Audience Member

While The Last Mimzy has some good visuals, a solid cast and moments of charm (I certainly wouldn't call it effortless), this family-friendly sci-fi tale, while offering decent-enough counterprogramming for all the fantasy movies coming out at the time, suffers from lack of thrills, struggling to balance elements of drama and thrills, having subplots that eventually come off as irrelevant and just being plain boring sometimes. The Last Mimzy could've been much, much worse but man oh man could it have be so, so much better than what we got.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/23/23

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joe m

A great family film! "The Last Mimzy" deviates from the short story that it's based on, being less dark and more kid friendly, yet overall it still does a great job of translating the story and adapting it to the typical Hollywood razzle-dazzle treatment. The is well paced and has a well done ensemble delivery by a first rate cast, especially the two kids at the center of the movie.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/30/23

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Robert Shaye

Director

Joely Richardson

Jo Wilder

Timothy Hutton

David Wilder

Rainn Wilson

Larry White

Rhiannon Leigh Wryn

Emma

Chris O'Neil

Noah

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Rated: 2.5/4

Jun 4, 2008

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Nathan Rabin

AV Club

New Line powerbroker/director Robert Shaye has made a children's film for stoners, a trippy, psychedelic fable that belongs in the DVD section of New Age bookstores alongside the strangely similar What The Fuck Do We Know?

Rated: B

Apr 5, 2007

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Neil Smith

BBC.com

A low-key sci-fi that has an offbeat charm all its own.

Rated: 3/5

Apr 3, 2007

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Kathi Maio

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

And yet.... If you can turn off the voices that murmur all the reasons there are to dislike this film, you will find that it actually works as entertainment.

Feb 28, 2020

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Mattie Lucas

The Dispatch (Lexington, NC)

Features moments both ridiculous and sublime, contrived and inspired, and somewhere in between something truly magical happens - The Last Mimzy steals our hearts.

Rated: 2.5/4

Jun 6, 2019

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James Vance

Tulsa World

The adult cast is an ensemble effort filled with solid performances.

Rated: 2.5/4

Feb 6, 2018

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Synopsis

Siblings Emma (Rhiannon Leigh Wryn) and Noah (Chris O'Neil) discover a box full of strange items they believe are toys. As the children play with the objects, their parents (Joely Richardson, Timothy Hutton) and a teacher (Rainn Wilson) notice that their intelligence level is growing by leaps and bounds. Emma reveals that her favorite toy, a stuffed rabbit called Mimzy, talks to her and has an important message from the future.

Director: Robert Shaye
Executive Producer: Robert Shaye, Justis Greene, Sara Risher
Screenwriter: James V. Hart, Bruce Joel Rubin
Distributor: New Line Cinema
Production Co: New Line Cinema, Lighthouse Productions
Rating: PG (Mild Peril|Language|Some Thematic Elements)
Genre: Kids & Family, Fantasy, Adventure
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 23, 2007, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 29, 2009
Box Office (Gross USA): $21.5M
Sound Mix: Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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