The Last Mimzy

(at around 57 mins) The film takes place entirely in Seattle, but in one of the early scenes, they show a closeup of Noah's cellphone with a Bell Canada logo clearly visible on it.

In the scene (from 04:32 to 05:55 on the DVD) where Noah Wilder is in his bedroom, wearing pajamas and playing a video game, his father comes home late and visits with him.

In one shot when Noah throws his video game controller down, you can see he is bare-foot.

In the very next shot from a different angle, as his father is talking to him, Noah is wearing slippers.

(NoteThis is a "full-frame-only goof", not visible in the wide screen versions, because their frames were made by cropping 41.

7% of the height of the spherical 35 mm film negative frames, cutting Noah's bare feet out of the frame, although his slippers can still be seen at 04:41.

The full height of the negative is shown in the full frame version, leaving Noah's bare feet in their frames.

) When the Wilders are going to Whidbey Island from Seattle the ferry is shown leaving downtown Seattle (at 06:30 on the DVD) where the only destinations are west going to Bremerton or Bainbridge Island.

To take a ferry to Whidbey Island you need to drive 20 miles north to leave from Mukilteo.

There is also a ferry from Port Townsend to Whidbey, but to take it the Wilders would have to take the Bainbridge Island ferry 7 miles, drive north 50 miles to Port Townsend, and take that ferry 5 miles east to Whidbey.

Early in the movie, the science teacher Larry White ('Rainn Wilson' (qv)) tells his class that James D.

Watson and Francis Crick "cracked" the genetic code.

This is untrue.

While Watson and Crick's discovery of the double-helical structure of DNA helped explain how genes were replicated during cellular or viral reproduction, Marshall Nirenberg, Har Gobind Khorana, and Robert Holley actually did the research that correctly interpreted the genetic code, for which these three scientists received the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physiology and/or Medicine.

"The Last Mimzy" is a movie that thoroughly references Lewis Carroll's Alice books, but which otherwise has nothing in common with--is even antithetical to--those classics of children's literature. It's the same thing that commercials do: adopt the facade of something celebrated for being creative and intelligent (nowadays, the popular music that aligns most commercials is an obvious example), to hock whatever unrelated product this or that company is selling.

These days (summer 2020) with kids stuck at home and everyone waiting to see what else can go wrong this year, gather your family and escape for a couple of hours in a beautiful fantasy.I would recommend this for most children 10 and up, and for all adults.

Noah and Emma are little kid spending the weekend with their mother Jo (Joely Richardson) at their family cottage. The kids find a strange box while playing on the shore.

Two small kids begin to have supernatural powers such as telekinesis, understand and communicate with insects, after discover a strange item on the beach. Soon they will discover other toys but their safety and those around them it is disturbed because somebody from another world has something to say through a plush toy.

... we have this sweet, magical and engrossing little treat, written by Toby Emmerich of all people, that (and I have emphasized this factor in other reviews) "connects" with the audience (via the children) almost immediately and then takes the audience on a pleasant little ride into the internal Fantasyland that each of us carries within us.

It's classified as a kids movie, but really, it is more than that. Some how, we are approaching the end of the day, not in the way people may interpret from the Bible, but instead, Human are already digging their own hell and creating their heaven depending on how they would like to use their mind to work for them.

In 2007, there was a lot of competition I didn't even get to see it; there were so many great films out.

People on IMDb are comparing this film to lots of others, none of which I've seen, so I can't comment on that aspect. "The Last Mimzy" from 2007 is a children's' film that adults will also enjoy.