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From:Jodie Foster , Michael Carman , Anthony Simcoe , Gerard Butler , Peter Callan , NIM'S ISLAND (WS) (DVD MOVIE) , Mark Levin , Jennifer Flackett , 20th Century Fox ,
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 Nims Island, 2008-09-18
I watched this without the company of children and still found pleasure in the story line. It definitely requires the ability to stretch your mind into the realms of fantasy so it's important to watch from a child-like point of view. Abigail Breslin is a delight and, surprisingly, there is a moral to the story that I found heartwarming. Jody Foster is very funny, and Gerard Butler is always a pleasure to watch.
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 Needs a Better Story and Director, 2008-09-18
Abigail Breslin is Nim, a young girl living in an isolated island in the South Pacific alone with her father Jack (Gerard Butler). When her father, a slightly eccentric biologist, is missing after a heavy storm, Nim asks for a help from the most unlikely person in the world: Alexandra Rover (Jodie Foster), an agoraphobic writer living in a big city, famous for her successful "Alex Rover" series, Indiana Jones-like adventure novels. "Nim's Island" has the right ingredients to make a great family picture (and a nice change of pace for Jodie Foster), which it is not, however as the film is helmed by wrong directors.
In fact, Jennifer Flackett and Mark Levin's "Nim"s Island" could have been a great family picture with a better director. In the film's introduction Nim is shown as an independent and clever girl who can also communicate with animals. The imaginative girl has a lot of stories to tell us, about her mother (apparently dead) and father, animals, island and herself. She is also a gifted storyteller (as the film's introduction shows) and is good at using computers too.
But somehow the director team didn't realize that such an intelligent girl would not mistake tourists for buccaneers. Even if she does, she doesn't need a slapstick comedy sequence like flying lizards. After the promising beginning, the film's story suddenly starts to meander in the mid-section with a train of silly set-pieces, and we start to think: Well, Nim has sent a message to Alexandra, a reclusive writer to come over to help her, but why should she do that if she is really a clever girl? Isn't that impractical and most of all, a bit selfish? But the film doesn't seem aware of that, leaving us far behind.
Of course the contrived situation could be forgotten if the film provides us with a good story, in this case, a story of Alexandra. I hate to say this, but Jodie Foster's "comic" antics as fish-out-of-water Alexandra only irritated me with her terrible overacting. Here is a job for directors who should have stopped the camera to say "no" to her. I really like her, but it is painful to watch her yelling, stumbling and vomiting (twice), all cliché. Is this all necessary after all when the film is titled "Nim's Island"?
 Very good purchase, 2008-09-16
The DVD is in good condition and came very timely. I am very satisfied with this purchase. Thank you.
nims island, 2008-09-16
THIS WAS A GIFT. WAS TOLD BY RECEIVER IT WAS A VERY GOOD MOVIE
Nim's Island, 2008-09-15
The movie Nim's Island was mailed out promptly and recieved in good shape. Thank you
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