I know this one comes a little late in the showing of this movie, but things have just been so hectic lately that we haven’t been able to squeeze out in a while for a movie.  For this particular movie we took everyone but McKayla.

Overview:

Nim is an 11 year old girl who lost her oceanographer mother to the ocean and lives on a remote deserted island with just her father another oceanographer.  They have kept the island their secret until her dad goes missing and Nim is forced to seek the help of an author who writes a series of adventure books she loves.

Story:

The story is cute, perdictable for adults, but the children all seemed to love the overall story line, even Andrea got into the story, although Justin seemed less enamored with it than Andrea and Brooke.

Acting:

The acting in this movie was so so, probably not on any of the stars top lists.  I don’t know specifically why, but they just didn’t seem real, every one of them seemed to be “forcing” themselves into the part.  I would say Abigail Breslin did the best job, and Gerard Butler did the worse, with Jodie Foster pulling one of her worst performances in a long time.

The Good:

The kids all enjoyed the movie immensly and we parents found it entertaining enough not to get bored through the movie.

The Bad: (Major Spoiler)

The ending was TERRIBLE, one of the worst movie endings I have ever seen, both Brandi and I just couldn’t believe that was how they really did the ending.  It’s like they got through the movie, and after making a rather decent movie realized they had 30 seconds left to finish the movie and end it.  Ugg!