Nim's Island
Headline: ** Thrilling Triumph of the Will **
Title: NIM'S ISLAND
Quality: * * * * Acceptability: +2
SUBTITLES: None
WARNING CODES:
Language: L
Violence: V
Sex: None
Nudity: None
RATING: PG
RELEASE: April 4, 2008
TIME: 95 minutes
STARRING: Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster and Gerard Butler
DIRECTOR: Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett
PRODUCER: Paula Mazur
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Stephen Jones
WRITERS: Mark Levin, Jennifer Flackett, Paula Mazur, and Joseph Kwong
BASED ON THE NOVEL BY: Wendy Orr
DISTRIBUTOR: Fox Walden/20th Century Fox/News Corp.
CONTENT: (Ro, H, BB, Cap, E, L, V) Light Romantic worldview with a humanist non-supernatural perspective stressing self-reliance, as well as some strong moral elements such as loyalty, courage, heroism, love for one another, keeping one's word, and an appreciation for private property, and some light environmentalist elements, such as very sentient pelican, lizard and sea lion; two light profanities; action violence but not much blood includes father gets caught in an ocean squall, lead woman gets caught in ocean squall, little girl falls down outside of volcano, and flashbacks to fictional hero fighting villains by the score; no sexual activity; no nudity but men and women on bathing suits on cruise ships in the distance; no alcohol; no smoking; and, nothing else objectionable.
GENRE: Adventure Comedy
INTENDED AUDIENCE: All ages
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SUMMARY: In NIM'S ISLAND, a little girl living on an island paradise with her scientist father must rely on a reclusive author to help her overcome the biggest challenge of her exotic young life. NIM'S ISLAND is a terrific, emotional and fanciful adventure comedy filled with jeopardy and danger, but there are some secular, environmentalist messages.
IN BRIEF:
In NIM'S ISLAND, a little girl named Nim and her father, Jack, sail around the world to find her missing oceanographer mother. They turn an uncharted volcanic island in the Pacific into a paradise. One day, while Jack is out sailing studying micro-organisms, the author of Nim's favorite adventure novels, Alex Rover (who is really housebound in San Francisco), strikes up an email conversation with Nim, thinking she's Jack. Alex asks Nim about their volcano, so Nim climbs the volcano, but seriously injures her leg. With her father caught in a storm and cruise ship operators threatening to populate the island, Nim cries out for help from Alex, who's hundreds of miles away.
NIM'S ISLAND is the type of fanciful adventure yarn that keeps you on the edge of your seat, making you laugh and cry. The fanciful filmmaking works. The acting is superb. The movie teaches self-reliance, loyalty, keeping one's word, and love for one another, but also an environmentalist message that animals are people too. Furthermore, God is strangely absent from the movie's secular world. Despite its faults, MOVIEGUIDE® notes that NIM'S ISLAND is wonderful entertainment for all ages.
