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Nim's Island Reviews
This film wants to be cute but is instead nauseatingly twee, and features what is by a great distance the weakest performance of Foster's career.
| Oct 7, 2018
| Original Score: B+ | Feb 14, 2012
Foster proves adept at broad physical comedy, the animated sequences charm, and codirectors Mark Levin and Jennifer Flackett send up the make-believe Rover with panache.
| Dec 17, 2008
The movie gets plain silly, but at least it's lively, and young girls will enjoy Nim's lifestyle in her eco-friendly and frolic-packed tropical paradise.
| May 2, 2008
It's a wondrous and warmhearted adventure story with some nifty special effects and some first-rate performances.
Full Review | Apr 7, 2008
There's a lot to like about spunky Breslin, even when she's unnecessarily recapping events or recapitulating Home Alone as she chases caricatured cruise-ship tourists from her island. She's a charismatic, energetic presence at the heart of the film
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 7, 2008
Nim's self-reliance and Alex's journey to open herself up to the world are inspiring, even when the circumstances that get them there are lackluster.
| Apr 4, 2008
Nim's Island is a win-win proposition: an entertaining, diverting adventure saga that offers excitement and a relatable heroine for children, and also will remind their parents of favorite classics from their own youth.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 4, 2008
A sweet-natured family adventure film that should be quite popular with the grade-school girls at which it's aimed.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 4, 2008
Nim's aquatic adventures and those on land provide the majority of thrills in this exhilarating and enchanting family picture. It's the best I've seen this year and highly recommended for girls and for boys, too.
| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 4, 2008
Roughly what Romancing the Stone would have been like as a 1970s Disney flick had CGI been available, Nim's Island is strictly for the 8-and-under crowd.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 4, 2008
Just when the movie needs real girl power, it leaves its heroine stranded.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 4, 2008
Nim's Island is a pleasant-enough jaunt for a family outing, but it never fully arrives at that 'perfect, secret world.'
| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 4, 2008
Its characters, especially the youngest one, are engaging, and few adults are immune to childhood fantasies about secluded tropical isles.
Full Review | Apr 4, 2008
The movie's dated, stereotypical comedy often contradicts its wholesome intentions, coming across as laboriously cutesy and occasionally perverse.
Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 4, 2008
There's a stiff, constructed feel to Nim's Island, a constant sense of assembly that keeps the film from ever feeling natural. And no matter how unbelievable a tale might be, it has to take on a reality of its own to work on the screen.
| Original Score: C- | Apr 4, 2008
The film's an oddity -- an engaging, slightly overcooked fantasy about a castaway-island girl and the agoraphobic San Francisco novelist who comes to her rescue.
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 4, 2008
The movie is not particularly rewarding for adults or children who believe that even a tale of fantastic events should be governed by plausibility.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 4, 2008
Nim's Island bogs down a bit in the midsection with a subplot that seems to be more about the "do" than the derring-do, but the oft-cited phrase about becoming the hero of one's own story is a mantra that bears repetition.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 4, 2008