We saw The Last Mimzy.

So, we've gone to the movies quite a bit recently (or, at least, quite a bit for US), and so I thought I'd tell you about the two movies we've seen these last two weekends.

Last weekend, we went to see The Last Mimzy. Plot: A five-year-old girl and her older brother (I'd guess he was probably about 9?) find a mysterious box on the beach. Inside the box are some glowing things that intrigue the brother, and a stuffed rabbit that intrigues the sister. The longer they keep the mysterious stuff, the more amazing the kids become. They can draw things they've never drawn before, and the little girl becomes telekinetic, etc. The parents start to get really freaked out (the mom MUCH more than the dad - I wanted to SHAKE the mom, but I hate Joely Richardson anyway.) and they enlist the help of the boy's science teacher (Rainn Wilson) and his girlfriend who reminds me of Idina Menzel but isn't. The whole plot turns when one night the boy is messing with some of the mysterious toys and he sets off a nationwide blackout. The Dept of Homeland Security (headed up by Michael Clarke Duncan) gets involved and suddenly we get to find out exactly what this is all about.

Really, this is a movie for older kids. Maddy got it and she liked it (because, really, there was a five-year-old girl with a stuffed animal!), but Major was totally in it for the glitzy special effects. For the record, there is one scene where the Dept of Homeland Security storms their house, but I don't remember them having guns or anything, and it wasn't NEARLY as terrifying as the men in the white suits in ET.

All in all, it was cute, but not the best movie ever. Parts of it were completely unbelievable. On a scale of Clifford the Big Red Dog: The Movie to The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, I'd probably give it a Home on the Range. Not my favorite, but not painful to watch, either. We'll probably end up buying it out of the $5.50 bin at Wal*Mart when it gets there.