The island of adventure

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Movie
German title The island of adventure
Original title Nim's Island
Nim's-Island-Logo.svg
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2008
length 96 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Jennifer Flackett ,
Mark Levin
script Joseph Kwong ,
Paula Mazur ,
Mark Levin,
Jennifer Flackett
production Paula Mazur
music Patrick Doyle
camera Stuart Dryburgh
cut Stuart Levy
occupation

The island of adventure (Original title: Nim's Island ) is an American adventure film from 2008 . The directors were Jennifer Flackett and Mark Levin , who, together with Joseph Kwong and producer Paula Mazur, also wrote the script based on the novel How do you hide an island? ( Nim's Island ) written by Wendy Orr .

action

The marine biologist Jack Rusoe and his eleven-year-old daughter Nim live after the death of his wife on a desert island in the South Pacific (20 ° S, 162 ° W). During one of his expeditions to a distant atoll, a storm approaches, in which Jack gets into distress and threatens to drown. At the time alone on the island, Nim learned the Internet supposedly the one known from their favorite novels, adventurer Alex Rover, whom she revered. Behind the pseudonym of the email received is the author Alexandra Rover, who found out about the researcher on the island and hopes that Jack will provide technical information for her current book. In order to be able to answer the questions, Nim goes on an excursion to the island's volcano, during which she injures herself slightly and also watches a ship anchored. Its crew is examining the island for its suitability as a tourist attraction. But Nim thinks they are pirates and makes preparations to make the island appear dangerous. Alexandra now has the suspicion that instead of the scientist, she has a child on her own in front of her. She, who is afraid of even leaving the house because of her claustrophobia , gets a guilty conscience for having put a child in dangerous situations and for being responsible for their injury. So she asks Nim about her age and whether she needs help, whereupon Nim writes the truth and asks her supposed hero to help her find her father.

Alexandra is so concerned about Nim's safety that, at the insistence of her fictional character Alex Rover , who constantly appears to her in a kind of schizophrenic hallucination , she actually goes on the long journey to Nim. And that, although the neurotic author only shares the name with her fictional character: she researches her books exclusively on the Internet, she is terrified of spiders and diseases and always has disinfectants with her . While Nim manages to drive away the first tourists and tour operators in a panic, Alexandra reaches the coast of the island after an adventurous journey and is saved from drowning by Nim at the last second. Nim, who had expected an adventurer and hero to help, is deeply disappointed by the helpless woman, but eventually helps her to get by on the island. Meanwhile, Jack is faced with one blow after another in his attempt to get back on land. Nevertheless, he finally manages to reach the island on a raft that he was able to build from a few fragments of his wrecked boat.

Once on land, he is immediately taken with the writer, who has since made friends with his daughter. And Alexandra notices that Jack looks exactly as she always imagined her own novel hero Alex so vividly. This is followed by the last sentence of the film, spoken by Nim in narrative form, that a new story begins now that nobody knows how it will end.

backgrounds

The film was funded by Walden Media . It was shot in summer 2007 on Hinchinbrook Island, in Port Douglas ( Queensland ) and at Warner Roadshow Studios in Oxenford . Production costs were estimated at 37 million US dollars . The composer Patrick Doyle recorded the film music together with the Hollywood Studio Symphony orchestra consisting of 57 musicians in Los Angeles .

The film opened in Australian cinemas on April 3, 2008 and in the USA on April 4, 2008. The German theatrical release followed on June 19, 2008. The film grossed around 100 million US dollars worldwide, including around 48 Million US dollars in cinemas in the USA and 4.07 million US dollars in Germany.

Reviews

The film received mixed reviews, earning a 51% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 101 reviews. At Metacritic , a Metascore of 55, based on 24 reviews, could be achieved.

Justin Chang wrote in Variety magazine on April 7, 2008 that the "picturesque adventure comedy" was quickly falling under the weight of the slapstick . It is strictly intended for children. Some dialogues are embarrassing, the action scenes are half-hearted. The number of cases of product placements - including for Apple - is "alarming".

Kirk Honeycutt wrote in The Hollywood Reporter on April 4, 2008 that the film - unlike In the Hunt for the Green Diamond - had problems drawing a clear line between the real and the fictional world of the writer. The portrayal of Abigail Breslin is safe, while that of Jodie Foster contains too much slapstick. Still, you can like the film in a “grubby” way, its characters are engaging and few adults are immune to childhood fantasies.

Cinema, on the other hand, sums up Foster's contribution: “[…] the coup of this modern Robinsonade is of course Jodie Foster as Alex's hysterical bundle of phobias. If the slapstick excursion was only half as much fun as the audience, she should only be making comedies. "

The Berliner Morgenpost of June 19, 2008 wrote that the scenes with Jodie Foster would look like foreign bodies, their “silly over-the-top representation” - “a little too calculated”. Foster refers “constantly to himself”, which destroys the “illusion of a perfectly closed fantasy world”. Abigail Breslin shows "refreshing carefree" that is mixed with the "grief of half-orphans".

continuation

2013 appeared The return to the island of adventure (OT: Return to Nim's Island ), which is based on the novel Nim at Sea by Wendy Orr. Instead of Abigail Breslin, Bindi Irwin was seen in the role of Nim, and Gerard Butler and Jodie Foster were no longer involved in the sequel. Directed by Brendan Maher .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Filming dates for Nim's Island, accessed March 21, 2008
  2. ↑ Michael Fleming, Foster, Breslin circle 'Island' in the Variety of April 2007, accessed on March 21, 2008
  3. ↑ Filming locations for Nim's Island, accessed March 21, 2008
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  5. ↑ www.scoringsessions.com, accessed March 21, 2008
  6. ^ Opening dates for Nim's Island, accessed March 21, 2008
  7. ↑ The Island of Adventure at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
  8. ↑ The island of adventure at Metacritic (English)
  9. ↑ Film review by Justin Chang, accessed on April 14, 2008 ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.variety.com
  10. ↑ Kirk Honeycutt's film review, accessed April 4, 2008 ( Memento June 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ The island of adventure. In: "Cinema.de". Retrieved April 19, 2014 .
  12. ↑ Berliner Morgenpost, accessed on June 19, 2008
  13. ↑ Imdb, title 2221648 , accessed on March 17, 2017