Movie review: The Last Mimzy
KILL YOURSELF BEFORE YOU ACCIDENTALLY SEE THIS MOVIE!
I saw the last fifteen minutes and accidentally chewed my leg off trying to escape the cruel insipidness.
What?
It got better.
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Thursday 21 Feb 2008
What if they’re lying about the “Last” part?
OH MY GOD NOOOOO!
I don’t know if the book was better or not but the movie blows chunks. Fortunately my mental defense mechanisms are erasing this crapfest from the memory banks. This movies stinks on so many levels. The only thing happy about the ending of this movie was that it did. End that is.
Well, no I know not to waste my time so view your time as a public service to the rest of us.
Can’t help what you saw, but could help with the taste.
Nothing, I repeat, nothing, could possibly be worse than “Joe vs. The Volcano”. That 90 minutes of onscreen excrement stands head-and-shoulders above all other movie dreck.
Even including “Single White Female”.
And that’s saying a LOT…
Oh, trust me. Joe vs the Volcano will be considered a classic, next to “Mimzy”
I have a rule: never see a movie with a cutesy title.
The one thing I have to say about Joe vs. The Volcano is that the three chicks played by Meg Ryan had to have been drawn directly — and I mean directly — from three women I dated in a row at about the time it came out. It was frickin’ uncanny.
Otherwise, yeah, it’s a long walk for a short jump.
Well I saw the whole movie, and trust me you were better off just seeing the last 15 minutes. I really wish I had only seen the last fifteen minutes.
Fortunately my brain has blocked most of the movie from my memory. The only thing that remains clear is that I saw it, and I hated it.
I’m with the crowd that says Joe had nothing on Mimzy, having seen both. Joe had some humor in it. Mimzy was a club.
The book had nothin’ to do with the movie. The movie had big bad government and save the earth crapola in it…
I envy that you only saw the last 15 minutes.
The thing that surprised me about The Last Mimzy wasn’t so much that they crapped all over the story from which it was adapted, but that they dug up a semi-obscure (but excellent) SF short story from the early 1940’s to begin with. It’s “Mimsy Were The Borogoves,” by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore (writing as Lewis Padgett).
Read the story. It may help get the taste of the movie out of your mouth.
More here: http://elisson1.blogspot.com/2007/03/of-melinda-and-mimzy.html
I remember the story, and frankly, I never made the connection between the story and the movie, it’s so horrid. Nah, still: Kill yourself lest you see it accidentally.