History Film / TheLastMimzy

* EverythingsBetterWithPlushies: Mimzy, of course. There's a reason the scientist sent back a stuffed animal.

* MsViceGuy: Naomi is incredibly eager with her dabbling in/appropriating vaguely Eastern mysticism... mainly because her husband Larry had a dream several years ago that perfectly predicted a winning set of lottery numbers, and she's been trying to strike it lucky again.
** She does mention "Can you imagine how many people we could have helped with that money?", but it comes off like a justification for her greed.

* [[MrViceGuy Ms. Vice Girl]]: Naomi is incredibly eager with her dabbling in/appropriating vaguely Eastern mysticism... mainly because her husband Larry had a dream several years ago that perfectly predicted a winning set of lottery numbers, and she's been trying to strike it lucky again.

A 2007 film centered around Noah Wilder, a video game-loving, somewhat irritable young man who believes that "school sucks, life sucks, and [he] suck[s]", and his sensitive and precocious younger sister Emma Wilder. While on vacation with their parents over spring break, Noah and Emma find a box filled with strange objects that are incomprehensible to them except for a stuffed rabbit named Mimzy that can communicate with Emma. Sensing that there is something odd about their find, they keep it a secret from their parents, particularly after Noah tries to show a translucent rock filled with constantly shifting green triangles to his mother and it appears to her to be a normal rock. Emma becomes emotionally attached to Mimzy as the mysterious objects begin to give the siblings psychic abilities and increase their mental capacities to genius level. Noah's science teacher Larry and his mystic wife Naomi get involved when Larry notices that Noah has been drawing mandalas, and the situation becomes serious when Noah accidentally assembles the objects into a generator that causes a blackout in the entire city of Seattle. The FBI discovers the source of the surge and the Wilder family members are arrested; meanwhile, Emma has elucidated that Mimzy and the other objects were sent from the future, and it is up to her and Noah to figure out how to send Mimzy back to her own time and save humanity's future.

The film is inspired by the short story "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" by Creator/HenryKuttner and Creator/CLMoore.

* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: The teacher in the meadow, whose accent isn't identifiable. Justified due to how language changes over time-presumably her accent is one not yet developed.

* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: The teacher in the meadow, whose accent isn't identifiable. Justified due to how language changes over time-presumably her accent is one not yet developed.

* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: The teacher in the meadow. What even the fuck is that accent supposed to be?

* BrickJoke: Larry White's dream-visions of winning lottery numbers and mandalas [[spoiler: he sees one in the end.]]

* HumansArePsychicInTheFuture: Well, not the CrapsackWorld future from which Mimzy was sent, but an even later future in which a teacher tells the story of Emma and Noah to an assembled class. This is justified because [[spoiler:Emma gains psychic powers from the objects from the future and then gives some of her DNA to Mimzy. Said DNA was then used to "cure" the sick people of the future, and presumably was responsible for their new abilities.]]

* MsViceGirl: Naomi is incredibly eager with her dabbling in/appropriating vaguely Eastern mysticism... mainly because her husband Larry had a dream several years ago that perfectly predicted a winning set of lottery numbers, and she's been trying to strike it lucky again.

The film is inspired by the short story "Mimsy Were the Borogoves" by Creator/HenryKuttner and C. L. Moore.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Dwight from TheOffice is the science teacher Larry White.

* ArtisticLicenseLaw: SWAT teams ''storm the house''. They corral ''everyone'' in the living room. Then the little girl in this family you were told to contain with extreme prejudice asks to get something out of her room? ''Of course'' she can go up unsupervised.
** They actually do send a person to go with her.

* SupportingProtagonist: Noah is the protagonist of the film, but Emma is actually [[TheChosenOne]] and Noah is her assistant/"The Engineer".

** The parents didn't even know about Emma's seizure. Noah called them while it was happening, but Emma woke up before they entered the room. Mrs. Wilder threw out the objects because she thought all the "weirdness" would stop once she tossed them.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: There is no DNA in tears. Well, technically, anyway. But "Emma's DNA from comparatively rapidly shedding epithelial skin cells that were likely transferred from her cheek to her tear" doesn't sound as good as "Emma's tears".

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: There is no DNA in tears.
** Strands of DNA do not float around freely in tears, and tears are mostly water and salt, but a few cells are probable, especially after said tears have rolled down a person's face. Quickly locating and extracting DNA from those cells is only impossible with current biotechnology.

** Larry even admits it by saying "this is SO far out of my league" when the Wilders describe what Emma did with the sugar.