the last mimzy doesn not pander needlessly to it core audience and but at the same time it also have a good accomplishment in that it also have an appeal to adult and or at least those that have pass that age of adolescence and look back on childhood with level of nostalgia and relief that it over . it delight as well a give special meaning to put a level of belief in what be unknown at a time when the rest of the world rely on hard fact and rigid control of personality . it also put et to a certain test represent can the little creature from another world that need to get home kind of story hold up to quasi ( actually precise ) psychedelia . pink floyd shirt and roger water aside and this may even have a secret appeal to stoners just as much a your little boy or girl at the movie theater and who will obviously see it in a different life and that of light and efficient irreverence and lot of neat special effect . mimzy tell the story of a boy and a girl and noah and emma and both at least under the age of 10 but old enough to be articulate enough as well a appropriately secretive in the fantasy they hold paramount and who come upon a strange rock from the ocean . in it lie a bunch of fragment and and and oddly enough and a stuffed and fluffy and cute bunny name mimzy and who emma take a her most important possession . noah meanwhile becomes transfix with the new power that soon come to him via these rock represent he can hear the small insect and and be transfix by obscure design . this strike up the attention of his parent as well a his science teacher ( rainn wilson ) and who also know of the symbol noah make up . but after a power outage it also happen to be a generator that noah conjures get the attention of the government and not sure what exactly be go on . emma have a problem and however and in that mimzy and her closest confidant and teacher be die and need to get back home . that the basic story and anyway and a there be little in and out a the story go on and include a great product placement for sprite and and a montage free example of each child new ability . some of this may be a little preposterous and even goofy and but bob shaye and his team bypass the obvious but still perilous pit fall for filmmaker invest themselves into child movie . no truly stupid gag and nothing with bodily excretion and none of that really and and if anything the humor and of a little wild and over the top in variety ( some of which i be laugh at alone while the other kid be silent ) and be innocent and sort of knowing of the split of imagination between child and adult . the two kid be also very good at play their part and with wryn a emma very adept at be vulnerable and smart and and oneil be almost too close to look like the boy elliot in et and however not without his own strength . shaye sometimes let his control slip in just simple thing like cinematography or make a fitting enough end ( too many futuristic hippy me think ) and and the goofiness do teeter on become a little too much . but i respond more to how the power of take a long repeated idea and of kid become change by outside force in a very real world and and there be a sort of little twist to it all . it not just about make friend and gain in some alien intelligence and but in figure the significance of the future and however weird it might be . it definitely the fine child movie and non animate and to come out so far in 2007 . 7 . 5/10 .