Nim's Island

Fox-Walden | Release Date: April 4, 2008

8.4	USER SCORE Universal acclaim based on 91 Ratings

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KatieD.Nov 30, 2008

I liked Nim's Island because my favorite part was the flying lizards! Katie, age 6.

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DecepticonPomMay 5, 2008

I've been seeing plenty of family movies with my nephew and niece recently and enjoyed some surprisingly decent romps but this is meanderring tosh! Jodie Foster is squandered on a potentially great role that ultimately serves no purpose I've been seeing plenty of family movies with my nephew and niece recently and enjoyed some surprisingly decent romps but this is meanderring tosh! Jodie Foster is squandered on a potentially great role that ultimately serves no purpose whatsoever than to hang a tugidly flimsy and unexplored possible romance in the last 5 seconds. Garbage!… Expand

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TonyB.Apr 22, 2008

A marvelous fantasy with outstanding performances by Abigail Breslin and a revelatory Jodie Foster.

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ChadS.Apr 7, 2008

Who the hell does Jack Rusoe(Gerald Butler) think he is? MacGyver? "Nim's Island" comes equipped with two teams of screenwriters. Maybe, just maybe, the original pair of scribes preferred that Nim Rusoe(Abigail Breslin) be given the Who the hell does Jack Rusoe(Gerald Butler) think he is? MacGyver? "Nim's Island" comes equipped with two teams of screenwriters. Maybe, just maybe, the original pair of scribes preferred that Nim Rusoe(Abigail Breslin) be given the "Castaway" treatment, rather than have "Nim's Island" be a sort of "Home Alone on a Deserted Island", especially when the loner girl shoos away a boatload of tourists. For dramatic purposes, her father should be kept off-screen for the duration that he's lost at sea. But, alas, "Nim's Island" is a children's movie. And yet, Jodie Foster gives such an inspired comedic performance as a reclusive Emily Dickinson-type writer, a tension is created between the two narratives, because Alexandra Rover's story seems aimed at adults. Since Foster raises the game, you'll want Nim to exhibit the same psychological realism as Alexandra, an agraphobic, who's forced to become a hero like her alter-ego. But the island-alone girl never seems truly terrified at her prospects of being a sudden orphan. Neither do we, because "Nim's Island" includes Jack's progress with his leaky boat. There's never any doubt about his safety thanks to an anthromorphic(read: Disneyesque) pelican. It's a shame that the filmmakers didn't give the target audience a little more credit and throw more harm towards Nim's way, because Foster gives an Oscar-caliber performance in what essentially becomes a throwaway film.… Expand

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JayH.Aug 1, 2008

Okay, so it's nothing great, but it's fun, entertaining, well made and enjoyable. Good cinematography. Imaginative and fun, a bit too far fetched. Good acting, but Abigail Breslin's performance is stiff and unenthusiastic.

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AriN.May 18, 2008

It was a cool movie. I liked it because it was a thriiler adventuere. I really thought it should have gotten a better review. -ari

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MovieLonely94Oct 18, 2010

it won't bring new people to like this movie, but it was definitely worth a try.