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This was one of the most dissapointing films i've seen in my life.

posted 15 years ago by gianlu-1
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Now. before you get the wrong idea and think that i'm nothing but a troll, i assure you im not. I was ENJOYING this movie IMMENSELY. From the beautiful and wonderous animation, to the haunting score and exciting story, i was loving the secret of nimh and was definately going to rank it up in my top 20 films.

But then the ending came.

Wow. Just, wow. I've never witnessed an ending so abrupt and unresolved before. I'm serious how can anyone hardly care about this?? Plot points were left unresolved and unexplained, characters were introduced to only get killed off between 5 - 10 minutes later. Some characters bared hardly any relevence to the plot! And there were aspects to it that contradicted eachother. Your left asking yourself things like "huh?" and "what?" and "is that IT?"

This film was definately one of the biggest dissapointments ever. I was loving this thing, i was on the verge of giving it a 10 under the impression that all the loose ends were going to get tied up. But they didn't. That sucked. So from a solid 10, i'm going to have to settle with either a 6.5 or a 7. Not too sure yet.

Anyone else feel the same way??

[–] gnaaden 15 years ago

Actually, I sort of agree. I was watching it just today...a wee bit shocked at how "adult" it felt, don't remember it quite like that when I was a kid. Also not sure what that whole Brutus scene was about. Dom Deluise was especially enjoyable...but also felt rather disturbing at times. That one scene where he says he's always wanted a "sparkly", I really thought he might attack her.

Anyway, I was really getting into it until about the time when Mrs. Brisby decided it was a great idea for her to be the one to drug Dragon... Like seriously, this mother of 4 spends so little time being a mother it was disconcerting. I know she would do anything to save Timmy, but at some point she might have wanted to return home, oh I don't know...maybe to check on her kids? Maybe let them know she's alive...since she went on a suicidal mission to see an owl?

How traumatized would her children have been inside that concrete block getting picked up and shaken, unaware of what was going on outside...and getting dropped? (Timmy couldn't have been happy about that...but he was probably over the Moon from NyQuil)

But for me the strangest thing was the deus ex machina ending. In a way it actually upset the whole movie. They spent so much time being scientific and in some ways realistic, that throwing in magic to fix it all made me feel like they were deliberately wasting my time.

For the people that would feel this is all rather nitpicky, I would say that I really like this movie and wanted it to be so much better than the ending it gave us. I think that's what hurt the most, was that it is such a gem, but could have been so much more.

sorry for the wall of text.
-Greg