Nim's Island

Starring: Jodie Foster

Product Description

Nim Rusoe (Abigail Breslin) lives on a deserted island with her scientist father Jack (Gerard Butler) and her best friends: Selkie, a sea lion; Fred, a bearded dragon lizard; and Galileo, a plucky... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: DVD
• Release Date: March 2002
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Publisher: 20th Century Fox
• Starring: Jodie Foster
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: Subtitled; NTSC
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

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. Therefore, Nim turns to her adventure book hero, Alex Rover, to help her find her father. Well, you guessed it, Alex is Alexandra Rover (Jodie Foster), the writer of adventure novels. Can Alexia overcome her agoraphobia and help Nim? Meantime, back at the ranch or island, Nim but throat off an invasion from a ship, "The buccaneer." Loosely based on the story "Nim's Island" by Wendy Orr, with all its hokeyness and predictability, could well turn out to be one of the best kids' films available. There is no underlying moral claptrap; it is just pure fun adventure. The only real problem is that they crank the music scenes up so loud that you cannot hear the dialog, or is it the dialog so low that when you turn the sound up, the music decibels shake the whole abode. ----------------------------------- 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 Nim’s anthropomorphic friend lizard "Fred" is animal, CGI, rubber, or a hybrid of all three.