Today is the birthday of something I remember renting from Blockbuster and then I forgot about it until I was looking for topics. The Last Mimzy is a weird movie I half remember about some kids and a messed up future rabbit. You know, I'm just going to give a summary of the film from memory and Mouse or Cal can check my work later.
Okay so it's the future and everyone's DNA sucks. A guy sends a plush rabbit into the past and some kids find it. The rabbit gives the kids superpowers and it's scary for them so the FBI shows up. They find the bunny has a product placement microchip in it and it needs power to go back to the future. The kids get the rabbit back from the government and send it back to the future so future humans can have babies again or something.
[EDITOR’S NOTE: Yes, the film received a lukewarm reception because literally everyone remembers it like this. It was loosely based on the short story Mimsy Were the Borogoves, in which a scientist in the future tries to test a time machine by sending some childrens’ toys into the past. The toybox is found by people in the 1940s, and while the properties of the objects baffle adults, the childrens’ brains are still adaptable enough that they pick them up easily. And then they learn fourth-dimensional geometry. It’s a math-based cosmic horror. Perfect for adaptation into a kid’s movie! This will be SO marketable!
In conclusion: The Last Mimzy is E.T. but with incomprehensible themes that bore and confuse children instead of stoking curiosity.]
[WEBMASTER NOTE: I thought E.T. was a drag as a kid (I still think it's overrated) so no wonder I didn't like watching a worse E.T.]
I was wondering how long it would take for Tom's hatred of ET to come up