"Mimsy Were the Borogroves", Kuttner & Moore's terrifying parable about the loss of innocence and the ending of childhood, is chopped up, its dark meat bleached until, like a chicken leg, it is converted into a breaded chicken nugget, suitable for a children's audience which holds that the only thing wrong with the world is that kids aren't in charge. Stir in Nepalese mysticism and CGI to taste and garnish with a paranoid government that locks up four-year-olds under the Patriot Act and you have this mandala-shaped piece of mystery meat.
Director Robert Shaye does show a dab hand at directing children, and I suppose I shouldn't have expected more than this, but I am terribly disappointed. I only hope his next project isn't Ted Sturgeon's "The Professor's Teddy Bear." Stupidest moment: the exit of the Homeland Security force.
Director Robert Shaye does show a dab hand at directing children, and I suppose I shouldn't have expected more than this, but I am terribly disappointed. I only hope his next project isn't Ted Sturgeon's "The Professor's Teddy Bear." Stupidest moment: the exit of the Homeland Security force.