YMMV / The Last Mimzy

• Adaptation Displacement: The film was based on a short story called "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" by Lewis Padgett. The film and the story are...er...quite different. Most notably, the points of the two are focused on different things. The movie was about people in the future and the earth itself suffering from some sickness and having to get "pure" DNA from the past for a cure. The original story was about the concept of learning a new form of logic, and how the children use the toys to learn it and eventually disappear into an alternative dimension. And it wasn't about saving the earth from anything. It all happened by accident because the future scientist was simply testing a time machine using his son's discarded toys. He sent two boxes; one to Scott (not Noah) and Emma's time, one to Lewis Carroll's. There is no "Mimzy" in the story. The scientist sent a doll that comes apart to show interior anatomy. The only stuffed toy is Emma's own "Mr. Bear", whom she leaves behind. Scott and Emma don't become geniuses, their thinking just becomes radically different. Their parents were genius level intellectuals, who try and fail repeatedly to understand the logic the toys teach.
• Awesome Moments: "Did you see the bridge?" Yes, we did, Emma. And it was COOL.
  • FBI locks vs a couple of kids with psychic powers. The kids waste zero time getting out of there.
• Awesome Music: Roger Waters wrote a song specifically for this movie. It can be heard on the end credits, or in this YT link.
• Funny Moments:
  Emma: (watching a crab get killed on a cooking show) Yuck! They killed it!
  Noah: (Emma is eating a hamburger) What about that chopped-up cow you're eating?
  Emma: What chopped-up cow?
  • (Larry points to the two-headed snake in the jar) "This is what happens when you screw with the code! ...And don't tell your parents I said the word 'screw.'"
  • Larry sticking his hand into the paper bag and pretending that something bit him...then reveals that he's just joking.
  • "The universe is speaking to you and you're worried about something as earth-bound as kidnapping?" -Naomi
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Toward the end, there's a rather horrifying moment where Emma almost gets taken to the future with Mimzy. And there's nothing the parents can do, because they're blocked by a forcefield. Luckily, Noah gets past it and gets his sister away.
  • In the short story, the children deliberately figure out a way to another dimension, and go there. Poor Dad is left standing there holding a piece of paper with the first verse of Jabberwocky on it. The End.
• Tear Jerker: When Emma says goodbye to Mimzy.

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