Nim's Island Reviews

Nim's Island

Abigail Breslin heads up this superb cast which includes Veteran Jodie Foster and the handsome Gerard Butler.

Living secluded on an undiscovered island, Nim and her Scientist father enjoy their privacy.  While gone overnight in search of a new Protozoan, Jack (Gerard Butler) encounters a monsoon and is lost at sea.  Back on the island, Nim (Abigail Breslin) is holding down the fort and reading her new book about adventure hero, Alex Rover. 

At the same time in San Francisco, CA....Alex Rover, the Author, is stuck on the next installment of Alex Rover Adventure Hero's book.  In search...

Nim's Island

The basics:

A young girl named Nim grows up on a deserted island with her scientist father, surrounded with her island friends and an addiction to a literary hero named Alex Rover. When her father goes missing she intercepts an e-mail from Alex Rover, who turns out to be the author of her favorite hero - but what Nim does not know - Alex is actually Alexandra. A recluse writer, who hasn't left her home in years but summons the courage (from her own hero) to go to Nim in her time of need.

My viewpoint:

This was such a lighthearted comedy - perfect for kids and adults a like. The cinematography...

Nim's Island was something I expected to like, but didn't expect that I'd really think it was fantastic.  Perhaps I was in the mood for a fantasy film, or perhaps I just really liked the idea of living on a beautiful secret secluded island!  Whatever it was, I really enjoyed this movie.

Only two people live on Nim's Island.  Jack is a scientist who is only really interested in single-cell beings.  He found this island and has vowed to keep it away from civilization.  The only person he shares it with is his daughter Nim.  Around 12 or so, Nim is loving the island life.  She is friends with...

I watched an interview with Jodi Foster on the CBS Early Show when she was promoting this movie and from the movie clip I saw and the interview, I'd say kids will love this movie and teens too (at least the teens who don't think they're already grown up will). 

 The interaction with the animal and the girl would make this movie of interest to anybody who is very interested in animals, animal training and animal behavior.  Also, the girl has to "pull some things together" to achieve her goals, much like the MacGuyver TV show, so fans of A-Team, MacGuyver and similar stories would probably like...

I took my seven-year-old daughter to see this film and she thoroughly enjoyed it. 

Nim is a young girl who lives with her scientist father on an uncharted island in the Asiatic Sea.  Her best friends are a sea lion, a lizard and pelican.  She is fiercely independent and treasures their secret island. 

Alexandra Rover is an agoraphobic author who writes best-selling novels about Alex Rover, a world-traveling adventurer, a la Indiana Jones.  She only eats Progresso soup and uses a lof of hand santizer because she worries about germs.  And she occasionally imagines Alex Rover, the male character...

Nim's Island is the perfect imagination film. It is the story of a little girl who is left alone on a deserted island that her scientist Father found. While he is out searching for a new protozoea, Nim is left to defend the island from pirates with a little help from her animal friends, and has contact with her only human source to the outside world, a writer who is afraid to go outside of her house, that writes Nim's favorite adventure books.

This movie has all great elements in it. Romance, surprise, fear, action, adventure. A great family film!

Nim's island is a great fantasy movie. For adults it is necessady to suspend belief but all in all, a great film with very strong charaters, especially the women.