The Secret of NIMH Movie Review
The Secret of NIMH Review
"The Secret of NIMH" Overview
Rating: G
1982
Cast and Crew
Director : Don BluthProducer : Don Bluth,Gary Goldman,John Pomeroy
Screenwiter : Don Bluth,Will Finn,Gary Goldman,John Pomeroy
Starring : Derek Jacobi,Elizabeth Hartman,Arthur Malet,Dom DeLuise,Hermione Baddeley,Shannen Doherty,Wil Wheaton,Jodi Hicks,Ian Fried,John Carradine,Peter Strauss
Never mind the G rating, this is scary stuff which sent my little one fleeing to another room inside of 10 minutes. Between the cat attacks and murderous rats, there's a lot of terror in The Secret of NIMH, but slightly older kids will likely thrill to the Harry Potter-like adventure here, which has a widowed mouse trying to figure out how to move her cinder block house and three children to safety before the plowing begins and rips them all to shreds. So, of course, she turns to the genetically enhanced rats down the way, who overcome their own obstacles before coming to a magical, sword-slinging rescue. Quite the finale.
Reviewer: Christopher Null
