. . . and this is The Last Mimzy for ‘dults!

But seriously. I thought I was really sticking my neck out trying to watch this one today after all I’ve heard about it – I wasn’t much in the mood for watching anything tonight let alone anything heavy, deep and complicated. But though this movie is definitely all of the above, I found it a much easier watch than expected. A 90-ish minute runtime always puts a movie in my good books from the off – in this case, the fact they pack all this into that and it still makes sense is pure brilliance.

I expect a second viewing will have me writing much more on this, and though the movie helped I’m still having a pretty bad day so I’m gonna cut this short for now. Hugh Jackman deserves a mention, though. Starring in two of the best movies of 2006 (3 if you count the Happy Feet voice) is achievement enough – but his performance here is just … somehow, in a movie as mindboggling as this is, he manages to be about the most mindboggling thing in it. How the visuals, the score, and technical aspects of the movie escaped the Academy’s attention is bizarre – how his performance escaped them is a real WTFer.

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