Nims Island

Well I don't exactly have reason to review this other than I didn't have time to review the movie I wanted. I guess I don't have much else to say. Let's go to a small island in the South Pacific where I review Nim's Island.

We start with a girl named Nim (Abigail Breslin) who lives with her father Jack (Gerard Butler) on an island. Her father studies plankton agile and other single celled organisms. Nim likes to read a series of books called The Adventures of Alex Rover (Also Gerard Butler). If you want to know what these books are about think The Adventures of Tintin meets Indiana Jones. The author of these books is a cowardly germ fearing woman named Alexandra Rover (Jodie Foster). Back on the island Jack is going away to research some nano plankton and he is leaving Nim by herself for two days. Alexandra is doing research for her next novel when she comes across an article written by Nim's father. Alexandra emails Nim's father Nim gets the email and says he will be back on Thursday. There is a horrible storm and the father is lost at sea. Nim just thinks her father is late right now and continues to talk to Alexandra thinking she is the actual character Alex Rover.

Alexandra asks Nim what the inside of a volcano looks like and Nim goes up to the volcano to see what it looks like. Meanwhile Jack is lost and he since he is apparently related to MacGyver he builds a pump for draining water out of his boat out of some materials lying around. Nim injures herself while climbing and tells Alexandra asking her what to do about the cut. Nim mentions that she is Jack's daughter and this get's Alexandra worried. She gets even more worried when she hears that Nim's leg is swollen so she decides to go to Nim's island to help her. Meanwhile back on the island a cruise line is planning to set up a resort on the island. Nim starts to put together a plan for defending the island and while Alexandra trys and get to Nim. Alexandra has to get on a boat after a plane and it looks like there is another storm coming. Meanwhile back on the island, the cruise ship comes and people start enjoying activities and such. Nim needs to find a way to stop the tourists so she catapults some lizards but unfortunately this doesn't work. She then tries to trick people into thinking the volcano is erupting but she accidentally causes some real smoke and ash to come out of the volcano but no lava. This causes the tourists to leave.

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The tourists left just in time because another huge storm is on its way. Alexandra tries to ride a helicopter to the island but the storm forces the pilot to land on the cruise ship. Meanwhile Jack builds a propeller out of some more wreckage in order to try and get home. Alexandra steals a lifeboat from the cruise ship and rides it to the island. She washes up on shore and Nim realizes that she isn't who she thought was coming. Nim asks Alexandra to leave the island and runs back to the house. Alexandra wanders through the woods and finds Nim's camp and Nim decides to help her out and let her stay the night. The next day it looks like Jack died at sea....yep they aren't faking us out...he's totally dead....there is no chance of him coming back.....oh look Jack is alive. So with Jack returned and all three of them live on the island together. The End.

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Nim's Island is...not as good as I remembered. When I first saw it before I started my blog I thought it was good. But looking back on it seems kind of cliched, and they try to hammer in the environmental message a bit too hard. But for what it's worth I still recommend seeing this. I don't know what it is it just seems to have some sort of charm that's keeping me from disliking it. So overall I recommend Nim's Island as a family film for when nothing else is available.