Be the hero of your own story.
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
Cast |
Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster, Gerard Butler, Michael Carman, Mark Brady, Anthony Simcoe |
Director |
Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin |
Screenplay | Joseph Kwong, Paula Mazur, Mark Levin, Jennifer Flacket, from the novel by Wendy Orr |
Music | Patrick Doyle |
Cinematography | Stuart Dryburgh |
Editing | Stuart Levy |
Sound formats | Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS |
Soundtrack | Available |
Made in | 2008 |
Produced by | Walden Media |
Official Site | IMDB page | ScreenIt Report
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Genre | Adventure, drama |
Language | Infrequent, mild |
Nudity | None |
Sex | None |
Violence | None |
Prejudice | None |
Blasphemy | None |
Drug abuse | None |
Comments | None |
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Disrespectful / Bad Attitude |
Imitative Behaviour |
Frightening / Tense Scenes |
Jump Scenes |
Tense Family Scenes |
Music (Scary/Tense) |
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Topics to talk about |
Scale (Max) | 20 | |
What the Critics say | ||
Cape Argus / The Star Theresa Smith | 10 | |
Die Burger Jeanne Calitz | 10 | |
Cape Times Tasha Robinson | 10 | |
The Citizen Natalie Bosman | 12 | |
Sunday Times Barry Ronge | 10 | |
eye Weekly Philip Brown The filmmakers and actors almost seem conscious of the bad script and are constantly trying to overcompensate. Foster does a reasonable job of finding the right level of manic for her character, but everyone else in the cast struggles to bring their cartoon caricatures to life and helplessly mug for the camera. | 1 | |
ReelViews James Berardinelli The central problem with Nim's Island is that little happens and the character who is changed by the experience is not the lead. There's nothing especially wrong with Nim's Island, but there's not a lot right about it either. | 13 | |
ScreenIt While Nim's Island is easy enough to watch (although one's enjoyment of it will likely be inversely proportional to their age), I just kept wishing it was more adventurous, magical and imaginative. | 10 | |
Metacritic.com 23 critics | 11 | |
Rottentomatoes critics 84 critics | 11 | |
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Flounders under an implausible storyline and simplistic stock characters. | 10 | |
What the People say | ||
Internet 1283 Netizens Great movie in more ways than one | 12 | |
Average .. 50% | 10 |