The Last Mimzy

[Geekyfanboy]

I just started seeing previews for this new movie and it looks really good. Here is the offical description.

Two children discover a mysterious box that contains some strange devices they think are toys. As the children play with these "toys," they begin to display higher and higher intelligence levels. Their teacher tells their parents that they seem to have grown beyond genius. Their parents, too, realize something extraordinary is happening. Emma, the younger of the two, tells her confused mother that one of the toys, a beat-up stuffed toy rabbit, is named Mimzy and that "she teaches me things." As Emma's mom becomes increasingly concerned, a blackout shuts down the city and the government traces the source of the power surge to Emma's family's house. Things quickly spin wildly out of their control. The children are focused on these strange objects, Mimzy, and the important mission on which they seem to have been sent. When the little girl says that Mimzy contains a most serious message from the future, a scientific scan shows that Mimzy is part extremely high level electronic, and part organic! Everyone realizes that they are involved in something incredible... but exactly what?

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[Darth Gaos]

I have seen previews for this also...it looks....intriguing.  I don;t know that I will see it in the theaters but I would like to definitely check it out.

[Geekyfanboy]

Mimzy Looks At Tech

Robert Shaye, director of the SF family movie The Last Mimzy, told SCI FI Wire that it's not a message film but is loaded with timely and important scientific facts. Based on the Lewis Padgett short story "Mimsy Were the Borogoves," The Last Mimzy spins the story of a young brother and sister (Chris O'Neil and Rhiannon Lynn Wryn) who develop amazing mental and physical powersâ€"and attract the government's attentionâ€"after finding a strange box filled with artifacts from the future, including a talking rabbit doll named Mimzy.

"I did try to offer some ideas," Shaye said in an interview. "Somebody asked me was I being critical of homeland security. I only know about it from what I read about it in the paper, and they don't seem to be totally on top of their game. So I thought that was an interesting thing to deal with. It does offer the idea that the technology that we're living with today, like all of this [recording equipment], is consuming us a little bit and that it is addicting. And, like any addicting thing, one has to be careful about it."

Shaye added: "The science in the film is theoretically possible. I didn't make any of this stuff up about not using genes that represent behavior for enough generations that they can just get turned off and replaced by other things. It's certainly completely accepted fact that we have what's called junk DNA in our systems, and nobody knows what it used to do. But something turned it off over long periods of time. Maybe it was [for] running on all fours or something. I don't know. Nobody knows. Is it possible that genes could express themselves in a way that would be behavior that we think of as innocence? Yeah, it is possible."

Shaye cited several examples of how technology has changed the way people live: Bluetooth cell phones, kids and adults alike tapping away on electronic devices while riding the bus, families watching large-screen televisions in their kitchens at mealtime. "Our behavior is changing a little bit," Shaye said. "There are new sets of etiquette, new sets of rules. Not that there's anything sacred, at least at that level, in our lives, but as I've said, addictive things are not necessarily bad. We've all dabbled in them. I'm sure we have all dabbled in them, whether it's coffee or cigarettes or whatever it might be. But you don't want to drink 42 cups of coffee a day because it makes you feel good, because eventually you'll start feeling bad. That's a bad metaphor, but I guess I made my point." The Last Mimzy opens March 23