Beware the Last Mimzy (MOVIE REVIEW!!)

!!!THIS BLOG CONTAINS SPOILERS!!!

“The Last Mimzy” gets a half a star, out of a possible 5 star rating in the Shotgun movie scale!

I am so SICK and TIRED of evil coming into this world through small, defenseless, and cuddly looking stuffed animals!

What is it with Satan and these innocent looking toys?

I’ll tell you what it is, it’s called, “the indoctrination of children into a Satanic worldview!”

“Now wait a minute Shotgun,” you may be thinking, “this is just an innocent kids movie.”

Well, if you think that, then you’re blind to the efforts of Hollywood to indoctrinate children, this movie being one of the more recent examples!

I realize that “The Last Mimzy” has been out for awhile, and my review of it is well past due, but for those of you who have not yet seen it, I’ll give you a brief rundown of the plot, and then point out some of the more blatantly biased and even satanic doctrines that are taught.

Noah, and his kid sister Emma are forced to give up their daily routine of video games and violin playing, to travel to the family cottage with their mom, (for vacation.) Their dad cant go, because he’s a workaholic, who (like all modern dads) just doesn’t “get” it, (although to be fair, he does seemingly understand some of what his son Noah is going through in school.)

While playing on the beach, Noah and his sister find a strange box full of weird objects. Upon further inspection, Emma eventually tickles the box just right, and it coughs up “Mimzy,” a toy stuffed rabbit, that is ohhhh so adorable, and has the added feature of being able to communicate. (Only to Emma though!)

Eventually the kids realize that these objects in the weird box have some sort of purpose, and after playing around with them, the two children experience extra high brain activity, and are even granted special powers.

So, we got Mimzy chatting away with Emma, and telling her God only knows what, while Noah is busy being the young scientist, and experimenting with the objects, (which eventually wins him first place in his schools science fair,) all this behind the backs of their parents, who eventually begin to realize that something is up.

Noah’s science teacher gets involved in the plot, when, after an atheistic indoctrination session…I mean, a science class, he finds Noah doodling what appears to be an ancient Tibetan “mondollah.”

The science teacher, and his spaced out girlfriend, (who prays to Buddha) decide to confront Noah’s parents after having matched his doodle of the mondoallah with some ancient Tibetan one that claims to be a design that holds the key to other worlds. They insist on examining Noah’s palm to see if he is the fulfillment of some Tibetan teaching. He wasn’t. Although, his little sister, (with a death grip on Mimzy) insisted on having HER palm read to, and… wouldn’t you know it? The spaced out teachers girlfriend identifies her as the chosen child.

Noah’s mom is freaked, and after an embarrassing incident with the babysitter, (who saw Emma “materialize” her own hand,) she decides to seek help. Noah meanwhile, figures out that one of the objects in the weird box, when combined with another object, come together to form….(not captain planet,) but a power generator, which subsequently knocks out the power to the entire state of Washington.

At this point, Hollywood couldn’t resist slipping in a few left wing political jabs, so after the power outage, Mr. Michael Clarke Duncan officially enters the plot. (You may remember him from movies like “Green Mile,” an “Dare Devil.” Needless to say, when a large black man, followed by a few truck loads of federal agents come knocking on your door, Mimzy or no Mimzy, you better open up!

The humble, innocent, white, middle class family is arrested under the authority of the Patriot Act, and are hauled out of their home! (I can only imagine what the neighbors were thinking!)

After analysis, it turns out that Mimzy is a real fine piece of artificial intelligence, (with an Intel processor) sent back into the past, to gather something, (we don’t know what, even though the thing can talk) only to travel BACK through time to the future to save humanity.

Noah and Emma, using their powers, escape, and get ol’ Mimzy back to the future, with a little help from the Science teacher and his spaced out girlfriend, (just in the nick of time!)

What exactly is my problem with all this?

Well, during the scene where Noah is caught doodling in science class, we are brought into the story, just in time to here the teacher giving the following lecture:

“Genetic code controls all living things. We now believe that genes don’t just control the way we look, but also how we think, how we act, and how we feel. So, when people mess with mother nature. Look OUT! Because pollutants can change us. Not just chemical and biological ones. Cultural ones as well. Perfectly good DNA becomes a bunch of useless junk carried from generation to generation.

Little Wendy then asks…”why don’t they do something to stop it?”

“THEY, is all of us!”

This exchange sets the theme for the entire movie. For those of you who don’t realize it, this science teacher is teaching Richard Dawkins’ “Meme Theory.”

What follows is a brief description of Dawkins’ “Meme Theory” and its implications:

Recently…a highly promising theory has emerged from the realm of biology to explain the fact – known for quite some time now – that some people are willing to die for their religious convictions. It can easily be demonstrated that people are not born with a religious conviction and that it is not part of their genetic heritage or genome. The term “mass hysteria” is reminiscent of a contagious disease. Religious convictions are in fact contagious; however, they are not caused by pathogenic microorganisms but are passed from person to person by the process of cultural transfer. In his book “The Selfish Gene” published in 1976, Richard Dawkins proposed the term “meme”. An enthusiastic proponent of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, Dawkins applies this theory to human culture as well (Dawkins 1996, p. 306). Dawkins describes genes as replicators; the most important property of genes, according to Dawkins, is that they can be copied. As a counterpart to the genetic replicator, Dawkins proposes a “cultural replicator.” The latter replicators are stored in the human brain and passed from brain to brain by a process “which can be described as imitation in the broadest sense of the word” (Dawkins 1996, p. 309). In his search for a name for this new type of replicator, therefore, Dawkins went back to the Greek root of the word imitation, from which he derived the word “mimem”. To underscore the parallelism with the term “gene”, Dawkins shortened “mimem” to “meme”. The word “meme” has since been included in the Oxford English Dictionary, where it is defined as “An element of a culture that may be considered to be passed on by non-genetic means, especially imitation” (Blackmore 1999, S. 43). (Fundamentals of Meme Theory, http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:NwgBKQxg3KkJ:www.orn.mpg.de/~knauer/salwiczek/MemEngl.doc+Dawkins+meme+theory&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=9&gl=us )

Notice where I have bolded the phrase, “Religious convictions are in fact contagious.“

It is this “meme theory” that the Science teacher was teaching to his class in “The Last Mimzy.” This highly implies that what Mimzy’s future was in danger of, was not just some environmental problem, but rather, environmental problems, caused by bad ideas that had propagated throughout mankind, and was causing the destruction of the future world.

Why did Mimzy “choose” Emma? Maybe it has something to do with the way Emma suddenly stopped eating hamburgers when her brother rudely proclaimed that she was eating another life form! Also, Emma loved Mimzy, and she loved life! Her one little tear that fell onto Mimzy’s belly button, apparently contained whatever it was that Mimzy needed in order to cure the future!

So, to sum it all up!

We can see that, although the meme that was destroying the future was never explicitly stated, we can be relatively certain what lines of thought it was NOT. The Science teacher and his spaced out girlfriend, were apparently close to attaining enlightenment, so we can be sure that whatever path they were heading down was the right one!

Will New Age ideas, (mixed with eastern mysticism, and science based on Atheistic presuppositions) save our future?

Mimzy says so, and that’s good enough for me! How about you?

P.S.

With the stab at the Bush administration, and the downplaying of traditional values in place of a subjective love and fuzzy feelingism, I’ll give 100 shotgun cool points to whoever can tell me what idea they think Mimzy’s future was suffering from.