Two small kids begin to have supernatural powers such as telekinesis, understand and communicate with insects, after discover a strange item on the beach. Soon they will discover other toys but their safety and those around them it is disturbed because somebody from another world has something to say through a plush toy.This film reminded me of The Whispers, seeing a little girl talking to some kind of alien form, my thoughts went to that show. Here the story is good maybe it expands to slow but still the movie is not boring.I liked the great acting from the two unknown small children, I could say that they made a much better job then the adults. Still it has some mystery that may not make any sense for the kids with the same age as those portrayed in the film. So watch it yourself but do not show it to you kid because it is too hard for him to understand what is going on.

This movie is beautiful and endearing. The movie stars two young children and both give strong and convincing performances. Also, the special effects are played down in favor of telling the story, which heightens the drama as the story unfolds. The story is original and the deals with several intriguing themes. That two children become the agents through which momentous events occur gives the story an aura of innocence which makes it an even more compelling work of art. Also interesting is the role played by simple-looking toys in the movie. This movie shows that toys need not be complex or glitzy to stimulate a child's imagination, or to facilitate communication through the portal of time. The most innocent-looking objects may be the things through which great things occur.

if you have kids to take to the movies, I suppose this a good bet, but I wish Hollywood didn't feel such a need to dumb things down so much for them. As others have mentioned, there are tons of plot holes (like how they walked out of a secure facility without anyone noticing all the cameras swarming with bugs), but the charming and genuine young girl keeps bringing it back to center. The parents are kind of two-dimensional, and the ever-wooden Michael Clarke Duncan isn't even flat (I think he should just call himself Mike Duncan, and i wish people would stop casting him in the part of anything more than a throwaway 80-IQ extra, god is he made of lead). The most aggravating thing about this movie was the music, typical overblown inanity; if your movie needs that much fluffy nonsense to bring it home, then your movie sucks.

This is quite an entertaining film, and I liked the way it incorporated Lewis Carroll's evergreen Alice in Wonderland tale into its story of extra-terrestrial visitors, but it falters very badly in the last reel and ends up looking like just another inferior copy of ET.Chris O'Neil and Rhiannon Leigh Wryn play siblings who stumble across a mysterious box on the beach which happens to contain a cuddly rabbit transported from a dying planet in a desperate quest for the elixir it needs to revive its people. Previous mimzys, we learn, made it to earth before - most obviously in the late nineteenth/early twentieth century when it landed in the lap of the girl who inspired Lewis Carroll to write Alice in Wonderland (rabbit, geddit?) but failed to complete their mission. Now this merging of fiction with factual history is always something that appeals to me - I like the idea of grand stories unfolding around historical fact unseen by all those who record history, and for a while this film runs with the idea quite well. Then all of a sudden it runs into a brick wall and turns to Spielberg for inspiration. I'm no screenwriter but, to me, the obvious idea would have been to follow the Lewis Carroll/Alice Liddell theme and see where it took me: the options would seem to be far greater in number than simply regurgitating the childlike-alien-relying-on-earthling-children-for-survival storyline from Spielberg's eighties flick.The child male lead looks like the youngest incarnation of Harry Potter until advanced intelligence courtesy of the alien rabbit's bric-a-brac means he no longer needs the specs. For a while he looks as if he's going to be the focus of the film, but it soon switches to his cuter younger sister. There's a hippy type teacher who dreams of winning lottery numbers but neglects to write them down, much to the chagrin of his earth-mother wife. I thought he was going to turn into some sinister nemesis but it turned out he was simply a plot device to explain the situation to the kids' unwitting parents and provide the kids themselves with a lift to the damp squib finale. That's probably where this film's real failing lies: there aren't really any bad guys to root against. Michael Clarke Duncan's FBI agent is the closest we come to a bad guy, but he's really just doing his job and bears no ill will toward the kids or their cuddly alien friend.Bottom line: young kids will love it, older kids will be entertained without being fooled, and most adults will realise that what starts off as a promising tale loses its way badly around the midway mark.