Problem is, not a lot of this is connected with the main mission in the story. (They build one with the shape and strength of the Golden Gate Bridge.) Emma, who sometimes loses contact with the ground as she floats along, can glimpse the future via intersecting laser beams produced via rock-like “spinners” - another gift of the black box. Noah, for instance, studies spiders for his school project and discovers how to use various frequencies to get the insects to change the shape of their web. Noah (Chris O’Neil) and Emma Wilder (Rhiannon Leigh Wryn) become Mimzy’s accomplices, and come into possession of strange powers and prodigious intellects. The last of these is Mimzy, an emissary from the future who speaks in a strange language and must return to her time with something to rescue humanity from pollution and disease.

Inscribed with obscure symbols, it makes noises like a whale and contains a large, blue, glass snail an ornate, encrusted sea shell and an antique-looking stuffed rabbit. The story, adapted from Lewis Padgett’s “All Mimsy Were the Borogroves” (a title drawn from Lewis Carroll’s “The Jabberwocky”) concerns two ordinary children drawn into extraordinary adventures at their Seattle summer home by the arrival of a curious black box.

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