Nim's Island: Review By Rama's SCREEN

It’s a family movie that takes your imagination to an island where anything can happen from a kid climbing the volcano mountain all the way to a stork who understands and helps humans. This is not meat to be watched by those who like to over-analyze things. It doesn’t try to… win any awards or prove anything beyond the fact that it’s based on a children’s book that wants to remind us that we are beings who need the company of somebody in order to survive.

The visual effects aren’t amazing but I like what the movie does with what it’s got. The whole scene where Abigail Breslin swimming with the sea lion is really cool.

Maybe I should go to Sea World and secretly try to attempt such stunt when the workers aren’t around.

The humor in this movie is silly but funny to those of us who still feel like a kid sometimes. Uptight grown ups might find the humor too silly to even chuckle a bit.

I don’t know what but there’s just something about Abigail Breslin’s crying that just makes you wanna shed some tears too. She always cries in all her movies (Signs, Little Miss Sunshine, The Ultimate Gift) and every time she does it, we can’t help but to feel sad for that little girl. What a great young actress.

Jodie Foster and Gerard Butler’s presence add to the comedy especially Jodie’s character who makes conversation with her imaginary friend. In a way, both Abigail Breslin and Jodie Foster’s character live in their isolated comfortable worlds and both would think each other’s lives as something crazy or very, very odd. But only one life would give a more meaningful, lasting, true happiness.