Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #82126 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-08-05
• Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
• Formats: AC-3, Colour, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Dubbed in: French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 96 minutes

Customer Reviews

The writer the scientist and the island
Nim Rusoe (Abigail Breslin) lives on an unknown island with her scientist father Jack (Gerard Butler.) One day her father sets out on the sea to make a discovery. Unfortunately there was a storm and her father did not return. So Nim turns to her adventure book hero Alex Rover to help her find her father. Well you guessed it Alex is really Alexandra Rover (Jodie Foster) the writer of the adventure novels. Can Alexia overcome her agoraphobia and help Nim? Mean time back at the ranch or island Nim but throat off an invasion from a ship, "The buccaneer."

Loosely based on a story "Nim's Island" by Wendy Orr, with all its hokeyness and predictability could well turn out to be one of the best kid's films available. There is no underlying moral clap trap; it is just pure fun adventure.

The only real problem is that they crank the music scenes up so loud that you can not hear the dialog or is it the dialog so low that when you turn the sound up the music decibels shakes the whole abode.

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The film was just asking for the Blu-ray treatment and even with Blu-ray and a big screen it is impossible to tell when the Nim's anthropomorphic friend lizard "Fred" is animal, CGI, rubber or a hybrid of all three.


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