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Contents 1 Roger Waters Song 2 Article reformat 3 Citation for use 4 Differences between story and film 5 03-28-2007 synopsis revision

[edit] Roger Waters Song

I am having difficulty accessing the Roger Waters mp3 file.

Please discuss only the film on this page.

— Jim Dunning  talk  :  19:45, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article reformat

Much of the content of the article has been rearranged to make it more encyclopedic and conform with styles of other film articles. Also, PR-appearing material has been removed. The relevant tags have been removed and the article has been upgraded from a stub. Irrelevant content has been deleted.

The Lead still needs much work, but may have to wait for critical response and input from viewers now that the film's been released. Although the content has been moved around, most of it still needs some good copy editing within each section to improve it.

— Jim Dunning  talk  :  20:43, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Citation for use

• Alain Bielik. "The Last Mimzy: Magical Reality VFX", VFXWorld, 2007-03-23.

Hope this is of some use. —Erik (talk • contrib • review) - 13:41, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Differences between story and film

I hate when this section is added to articles — it usually devolves into trivial trivia. I edited the initial entry and left the accurate content, however, it would be better to remove the section as it currently exists. It would be far more interesting to mention the plot and thematic differences between the two stories. They appear to be significant. For example, Padgett focuses on the growing gulf between loving (but busy) parents and their evolving children, which doesn't end happily. On the other hand (although I haven't had a chance to see the movie), I understand it is a feel-good family affair with an ending of hope for the future.

Maybe someone can start finding contrasting reviews of both works and begin a meaty section.

— Jim Dunning  talk  :  04:09, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 03-28-2007 synopsis revision

The Synopsis section should briefly recount the events of the film's story in the order they unfold. The revision by User:Jpittman on 03-28-2007, by organizing it into a description of the toys, children's abilities, and interactions departs from this model, and probably goes into more detail that is desirable for a synopsis.

There's some good information there, however, so the revision is saved below. This information should be mined and rearranged into film story order, but condensed, leaving only what is pertinent to a high-level description of the plot.

— Jim Dunning  talk  :  19:33, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Toys

In the film, the toys arrive in a box washed in from the ocean by the beach nearby the family's beach house in the pacific northwest. When Emma spots the box, her brother Noah fetches it. The two of them open the box and only some of the toys are revealed at this time.

Although only some of the toys are mentioned by name, many of them appear to the children as somewhat normal objects.

There are several rocks that look like geodes "spinners" that produce an atomizing field when Emma spins them and a small crystal quadrilateral that has lines all through it and seems to be charged somehow. Noah becomes very possessive of this crystal. The children hide the items they found until they are "caught" by their mother. At this point, Noah shows it to his mother who sees it as nothing but a piece of rock. Still facinated by it, Noah clutches it for much of the rest of the film.

Overnight, Emma wakes up and goes under Noah's bed and takes out the box. The box opens and reveals even more items. They include a strange blob as well as what appears to be a stuffed bunny, Mimzy. Mimzy becomes Emma's toy, although Noah gets angry when he wakes up and finds that Emma has 'stolen' his toys. He takes them all back except the bunny rabbit which immediately begins 'talking' to Emma.

Toward the middle of the film, two of the toys begin to interact. The organic blob and the green crystal are attracted together. When Noah cannot keep them separated they are pulled together and result in a new toy which looks like a blue blob. However, it is used as the power source for the time travel mechanism to return Mimzy home at the end of the film.

Abilities

Over time, both children become smarter and develop increased intelligence. They also develop abilities that relate to higher levels of brain activity and psi-related phenomena.

Over the course of the film, Emma learns to control matter with her mind. She learns to spin some of the toys and also is able to move sugar and levitate both using only her mind.

Noah learns communication with arthropods via certain frequencies of sound. He learns this, presumably from a toy shell shaped like a conch which he puts to. This causes him to build a project with spiders which his science teacher is amazed at. He predicts that Noah will win the national science fair which is a major turning point because Noah is shown to not do well in school early on in the film.

Noah also learns to teleport objects. He learns or develops this by seeing the world differently through his interaction with the green crystal that reveals geometric equivalents of ley lines which connect all matter.

Although both children are special, Emma is beyond Noah. We see a bit of sibling rivalry between them as brother and sister, but this pronouncement is definite as the film moves on.

Outside Interactions

Later in the film, the children are taken for tests. This is largely a result of Emma's dramatic display of psychokenesis when asked to pass the sugar. The children are tested and we learn that Emma's mind is continuing to grow, whereas medical science would not expect it to. In fact, during medical tests, Emma's brain is shown to be developing and changing too fast to even be measured. Whereas most humans have a decreased level of activitiy as they age, Emma's brain continues to evolve and grow every minute.

When Noah leaves curious mandalas drawn on his tests at school, his science teacher begins to research along with his fiance. Noah's science teacher, Larry White, has been having dreams since a trip he and his fiance took to Tibet. When Larry's girlfriend examines Noah's hand, she finds nothing extraordinary but Emma's reveals a marking which, according to the studying she did in Tibet, marks Emma as special and pure.

Larry tells their parents that they seem to have surpassed genius level. And upon hearing that Emma has begun psychokenesis, Noah and Emma's parents, too, realize something extraordinary is happening. At Larry's request, the children are taken for tests. From the tests, we learn that Emma's mind is continuing to grow, whereas medical science would not expect it to. In fact, during medical tests, Emma's brain is shown to be developing and changing too fast to even be measured. Whereas most humans have a decreased level of activitiy as they age, Emma's brain continues to evolve and grow every minute.

Emma, the younger of the two, reveals that one of the toys, a stuffed toy rabbit, is named Mimzy and that “she teaches me things.” As Emma’s parents becomes increasingly frightened, the Federal Bureau of Investigation traces a power surge, which had caused a large blackout, to Emma's home. The surge had been caused by the merging of Noah's crystal with the organic blob. The family are captured and held. Mimzy is analyzed using a superpowered electron microscope and found to be an advanced form of artificial life, with Intel components.

Emma reveals via telepathy that Mimzy has brought a message from humanity's future, wherein pollution has nearly destroyed the world. To counteract the pollution, which is suggested to be psychic as well as physical, many such rabbits as Mimzy were sent to the past to gather incorrupt DNA. Mimzy is the last of her kind, and the only one remaining. It is also revealed that Mimzy is itself made from semi-organic, futuristic nanotechnology.

The children must use the "toys" to return Mimzy to the future, where a scientist will use the DNA to stop the pollutants from causing mass destruction in Mimzy's time of origin. When this is done, humans become more integrated into the natural world, gaining love, wisdom, stronger psi, and a strong sense of community. Emma, whose tear carried the DNA via Mimzy, is viewed by schoolteachers of the future as the "mother" of all the present generations.