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Nim's Island (Widescreen Edition)
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| Part No: | B001APZMJI |
| Manufacturer: | 20th Century Fox |
| MFG Part: | FOXD2252752D |
| Customer Rating: | 4.0 / 5.0 |
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Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 08/05/2008 Run time: 96 minutes Rating: Pg
Adventure doesn't always begin with pirates on the high seas or explorers deep in the desert; sometimes it starts with an idyllic life on a private island in the middle of the South Asiatic Sea. For 11-year old Nim (Abigail Breslin) and her father and microbiologist Jack Russo (Gerard Butler), life is perfect thanks to their love of nature, Jack's mechanical ingenuity, and regular deliveries via supply ship. Loneliness is never an issue for Nim because of her special friendships with Selkie the sea lion, Galileo the pelican, and Freddie the iguana and her education is intensive, if rather unique. Adventure and imagination are ways of life for Nim whether she's heading out to sea to help her father collect plankton specimens, playing soccer on the beach with Selkie, or delving into the latest Alex Rover adventure novel, but everything changes when Jack departs on the boat for a two-night expedition to collect plankton specimens and gets caught in an unexpected storm. Alone on the island, Nim begins to worry about her father's safety as well as her own and, through a chance email, connects with Alex Rover (Jodie Foster) whom she begs to come help find her father. Problem is, author Alexandra Rover is an unbalanced big city shut-in who's afraid to leave her townhouse, not the fearless adventure hero portrayed in her books. Nim, Alexandra, and Jack embark upon the adventures of a lifetime in which each must overcome his or her own fears and perceived powerlessness and limitations in order to grow and help one another. The question is; can each prevail against his or her own insecurities and the fury of nature? Based on the novel
Nim's Island by Wendy Orr, Nim's Island is first and foremost a captivating adventure full of suspense and peril which also offers a touching look at the love between a father and daughter. (Ages 7 and older)
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| Nims Island | 2010-07-30 | 5 / 5 |
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| I have not had a chance to see this DVD yet but it appears to be in great condition. |
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| I am 8 years old and I like movies. Once I watched A movie called Nim's Island. I thought it was awesome! I wasn't interested in the ocean parts but it was fine. I would recomend it to people who like sea lions, pelicans, turtles, and lizards too! |
| Funny and entertaining | 2010-07-19 | 5 / 5 |
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| Jody Foster plays a writer who is paranoid of going outside her house, even to get her mail. She does a great job in her role and is so funny. As the story line goes on, she ends up going to a remote island to rescue a young girl who happens to love her books and has been reading them, but when Jody Foster shows up to help the girl the girl is dissapointed to find out that she is a woman and not a man, and that she is kind of whimpy and nervous, unlike what she imagines a writer should be who writes these adventurous books that she had been reading. |
| has too little credibility even for a fantasy film | 2010-07-18 | 2 / 5 |
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Recapping the plot of "Nim's Island," which is based on the novel by Wendy Orr, is no easy task. Suffice it to say it involves the unlikely meeting of two people from opposite corners of the world: an eleven-year-old girl named Nim (Abigail Breslin), who lives, "Tempest"-like, all alone with her biologist father (Gerard Butler) on a small island in the South Seas, and a writer of popular adventure novels (Jodie Foster), living in San Francisco, who's afraid to leave her own house. The fourth major character comes in the form of a floating incarnation of the author's signature creation - an Indiana Jones-type adventurer (also played by Butler) - who periodically appears out of thin air to offer sage advice both to the writer and to the young girl stuck on the island.
While "Nim's Island" earns some points for putting a young girl and a middle-aged woman up-front-and-center in an action scenario, the movie, as a whole, is a bit too cutesy and corny to be of much interest to an adult audience. It works too hard at being clever when what we really want is for it to settle down and tell a halfway believable story (even for a fantasy, this one unduly strains credibility). Instead, what we get is an assortment of lovable animals doing stupid pet tricks and Foster emoting away as if her life depended upon it. Yet, ironically, the scenery-chewing performance by Foster is probably the best thing in the picture, since at least we get a few laughs out of this neurotic agoraphobe/germaphobe finding herself suddenly and reluctantly living out a real life adventure of her own.
For a far better take on this whole literature-come-to-life thing, my advice would be to set your course for the truly wonderful "The Fall" - or even the less impressive "Inkheart" - and paddle away from "Nim's Island." |
| Good video for young teens. | 2010-07-03 | 4 / 5 |
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| This is a good movie for pre-teens and young teens because there are tense scenes but no sexual overtones. |
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