okay and i like the message of the last mimzy . i like the gentleness and purity of the basic story . so i really wish i could say this be as good a et or the wizard of oz or any other great movie that appeal to both kid and adult . but nothing about it really fit . the story have promise toy from the future be send back to the past . theyre find by a couple of very average kid live in seattle and who use them to see the universe in new way a they help the toy achieve their goal of find some way of save the future from the ruination of the past . there be moment of pure magic like when noah and the ten year old boy and learn sound can affect how a spider build it web and and when emma and his five year old sister and set the spinner go the first time . but nothing about this movie quite work . not completely . oh and the kid chris oneal and rhiannon leigh wryn do a good enough job of act and especially consider how young they be and it the first time they have be in front of a film camera . rhiannon be startle natural in many way and and chris closely match her . and timothy hutton and joely richardson and michael clarke ward do well enough with poorly write role . and therein lie much of the problem the script and choice of director . bob shaye have produce dozen of movie and so he probably think he would learn something about pacing and the shaping of an exciting story that be true to it universe . instead and he come across a a beginner . he so focus on keep the action go and he forget to let the story breathe and grow . maybe that be the way the script be write and but i doubt it . it seem like entire scene have be cut because they do not move thing along in the way some action adventure genre film might need . i especially miss the development of noah go from a c drub to a genius science engineer . all be give be him look at that spider and do something on a computer and then bang he get a science project about bridge across the universe . it like shaye do not know how to dramatize it and so just do not . and many of the scene pace be off like with the kid in the school . boy tend to jump over each other and verbally and when theyre talk while they do not talk and wait for you to talk and then talk . and the kid in this script do not use the same vocabulary a regular kid . even the scene where the fed break in usually a slam dunk be do so amateurishly and it disconcert . of course and the dialog be what come out of the script and and much of it lame . simplistic . unreal . the scene where rainn wilson and his fiancée meet with joely to discuss noah be brutal evidence of this . nothing about it come across a real or human . and that the scriptwriting and not the acting or directing . the special effect be nice if a bit cheap . i love the look of seattle and it environs a a way of show what be about to lose if we do not wise up . there be a couple of nightmarish moment that may scare kid under eight and but they work within the context of the story . yknow . if they would just have someone who know kid story do a pas on the script and let someone else direct this movie and it would have be hit out of the park . instead and i be willing to give it a double for effort and intent . but man . why couldn not it have be a home run .