The only thing not repulsive is the notion that magic is visible, has geometry and does not respect gravity. Michael Clarke Duncan plays the top cop, a sort of daft fellow bordering on affirmative action satire. This prompts the national police to confound things. Oh, and it needs regular old electricity, lots of it. There's some Tibetan mysticism, mixed paranormal phenomenon and ordinary magic involved, yet strangely unmagical tasks are required. Presumably, Alice's toy was one of the earlier mimsies which though it made the girl brilliant, failed in its mission to return to the future with some unspecified payload. This reaches into the Alice stories which came later by faking a photo that has Alice Liddell (for whom the stories were written) holding a stuffed animal identical to the one that features in the story. In fact, it was written while Carroll was a child and is a mix of Saxon and French words reflecting his father's obsession with the 'pollution' of the homeland's language. The word around which this was built 'Mimzy,' is actually 'mimsy.' Its in a poem usually considered sonorous nonsense, in fact celebrated precisely for its nonsense.

It has its own magnetic force that forbids you from avoiding looking like an idiot. So its a special amusement of mine to see how movies use Alice, and the various ways they twist in the wrong directions. There's something about logic that it runs out of its own sense quickly. Part of the wisdom in them concerns how people get things wrong when they 'explain' them. I've spent a lot of time with them, and been uniformly rewarded. They're pretty bottomless: logic, semiotics, geometric cosmology. Oh they're not just deep in a Charlie Brown or Norman Rockwell sort of way, where we imput wisdom. I have a soft place in my heart for the Alice in Wonderland stories. Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil reviewed by Daniele Romanoni, Pavia, Italy But Emma reveals the importance to send Mimzy back to the future. When Noah accidentally assembles the objects and activates a powerful generator creating a blackout in the state, the FBI arrests the family trying to disclose the mystery. Their father becomes very proud when Noah presents a magnificent design in the fair of science and technology, and his teacher Larry White and his mystic wife Naomi Schwartz become interested in the boy when he draws a mandala. Mimzy talks telepathically to Emma and the siblings develop special abilities, increasing their intelligence to the level of genius. They find a box of toys from the future in the water and bring it home, and Emma finds a stuffed rabbit called Mimzy, and stones and a weird object, but they hide their findings from their parents. The siblings Noah and Emma travel with their mother Jo from Seattle to the family cottage in Whidbey Island to spend a couple of days while their workaholic father David Wilder is working.

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