Jodie FosterNim's Island

Classic super fun movie! Great for kids and teens.

Such a cute movie! Loved watching this as a kid, and it’s even still interesting now as a near adult!

The Perfect Family Night Movie!

I enjoyed watching this with my mom growing up and can now enjoy watching it with my kiddos too! Cutest movie for a family movie night! Everyone enjoyed.

Rented it for my daughter. We enjoyed every minute of it.

One point for adults considering this movie for family viewing: Sometimes kids' movies can be tedious for adults to sit through, and other times they're fairly enjoyable for everyone. If you like the two movies I mentioned in the title of this review, you'll likely find this movie fun viewing. There are several striking similarities:1. Most notably, Jodie Foster (Nim's Island) and Kathleen Turner (Romancing the Stone) are both successful female novelists who write adventure stories centering around a handsome and courageous Indiana Jones - type hero whom they are more or less in love with, whether they want to acknowledge it or not.2. They are both somewhat agoraphobic, not wanting to leave their safe and quiet homes to venture forth into the big, uncertain city (San Francisco for Foster, New York for Turner).3. Both are driven to do just that by the desperate beckoning of other female characters who are both facing some sort of peril.4. Both women find themselves pushed to their limits and forced to face their fears by the cocky yet charismatic male leads (Gerard Butler in Nim's Island and Michael Douglas in Romancing the Stone).5. Both Swiss Family Robinson and Nim's Island involve families living on remote tropical islands in highly sophisticated yet somehow pleasingly Gilligan's Island-ish treehouse dwellings.6. Both SFR and NI have animal-to-human interactions that make it seem that the animals are on a par with the humans in terms of IQ.7. Swiss Fam and Nim also include the buccaneers/pirates-invading-our-island subplot complete with organized island-defense strategies involving rudimentary weapons "manned" by animals.There's definitely nothing in Nim's Island that kids can't handle, and little girls will find it especially thrilling to have the rare opportunity to watch a young girl be the center of an honest-to-goodness movie adventure. So if you like Romancing the Stone and Swiss Family Robinson, Nim's Island is probably a safe bet for all the parents out there who can't stand the thought of another noisy and mindless animated feature.

My three children have all read Nim's Island at some point and loved it so we decided to check out the movie and purchased it for Christmas this year. I should clarify this review is based on our love of the book, which is short and could have easily been made into a movie without changing it. Well, Hollywood was lucky (or unlucky) enough to get the wonderful Jodi Foster and Gerard Bulter (who are both great), however, it ended up causing them to change the story completely to "satisfy" the big names. While the book focuses on Nim's life on the island (her daily routines and getting food etc), her relationship with the animals and her relationship with Alexandra via email, the movie does none of those things. It instead, focuses on the big stars of Jodi Foster and Gerard Butler and creates a dialogue between her character Alex Rover (Butler) and the extra-reclusive Alexandra (Foster). I don't think they had much of a choice landing such big stars, they had to use them but it totally changes the story in the book. The most endearing aspect of the book is the wonderful relationship of Nim and Alexandra via email and Nim and her animals. Those relationships are diluted down and lose all potency as we are forced to endure the Alexandra's (Foster) agoraphobia/social anxiety disorder and have Nim endangering her animals by flinging them in a catapult? What? I am not an animal expert but I would consider flinging your "pet" a hundred yards in a wok-catapult is abuse! So in summary this has the characters of the book but doesn't follow the story there. Nothing is the same as the book save for the very beginning and the very, very end. So if you are looking for a cute story and nice acting but don't expect this to follow the story then it is worth watching, as for us, we wanted the book relationships not a study on the psychology of overcoming agoraphobia! I was going to list all the differences of the book versus movie but it would be everything! They even changed Trop Tourists and their interesting hats to Buccaneers and gave their unlikable tourists a lot of screen time. Too bad really. Hope that helps!

Great movie for the whole family

Good family adventure film with a strong female lead as a good role model for young girls.Though full of implausibility, the film is both very funny (Jodie Foster is brilliant!) and entertaining.We watched it with our two daughters (aged 8 and 10) and we all had a great time. The girls didn't really spot the weaknesses of the film but just picked up on the protagonist's resourcefulness, wit and courage. They absolutely loved all the animal scenes!There are a few scenes that can upset some children (mainly to do with Jodie Foster's hypochondriac character's fears, such as flying or going on a small boat) but again, our girls didn't notice.All in all, a safe, innocent and fun movie to watch as a family.

Nim's Island.I took my Granddaughter to see this in our local cinema, fully expecting the film to be of interest only to her and not myself. However, I thoroughly enjoyed it and it took me back to my childhood when I loved to read adventure stories that took me away from the rather dull and unexciting suburban life I was in. It is a film for both children and adults alike - pure escapism and wonderfully acted. Jodie Foster is absolutely great. Now that she has the DVD my Granddaughter has seen it again - along with her parents.Highly recommended.

This is a movie you could watch while having you dinner or tea on the sofa with the family or the one you love, the 3/4 characters are well played the actors/actresses playing these roles are awesome and didnt feel fake it felt soooo real they are the well known and great in their acting.It made me glue to the TV it was that brilliant from beginning till end, there were laugh and cries through this movie, i enjoy it that much i would love to watch the film over and over again i wouldn't get bored and i also recommend this movie to my family.

This film is a delight. Lots of fun for the children, with good old-fashioned adventure and excitement without the swearing and overt sexuality that mars so many films. Abigail Breslin is lovely as Nim, but Jodie Foster steals the show as the agoraphobic author who sets out to rescue Nim. I love the comedy, but some of the writerly injokes really add to the enjoyment for adults. Recommended for all ages.

Another dvd I have seen before but I love it a good exciting storyline and so funny and most of the actors were fairly new to the screen