For having a relatively low budget, the film's style and overall art direction are immensely impressive.

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

I realize that movie, like with all other art forms, is subjective. So although everything about the story line is horrible. The acting was terrible. The island in the beginning is a lush island with a what looks like a hill. Then towards the end, the hill looks like a mountain with a large cliff. This looks like a page out of Ed Wood page of film making. No wonder the actors from the first movie didn't do this one. Absolute piece of crap.

This movie is worse than the original, which wasn't even that good to begin with. The dialogue is bad. The effects are bad. Nothing is done well. Its just a bland and forgettable movie that isn't worth watching.

The 2008 version of Nims Island with Jodie Foster and Abigail Breslin playing the young girl, wasn't great but it was watchable. Return to Nim's Island isn't. I love the Irwins; but Bindi Irwin cannot act. Her over the top performance was straight out of a middle school talent show. Her trying to be tough and feisty against her over the top bubbly image is a little creepy. She isn't an actress. Her father was paving the way for her to stardom having her star in several TV shows when he passed away. Without him though, this is just another vehicle for her to get famous. Her acting is horrific and phony and the rest of the cast should get double the pay for being in this. The book Nim at Sea by Wendy Orr in which this was based on is a charming book; this movie isn't. The lack of chemistry between Bindi and competent young actor Toby Wallace (who is her crush in the movie) is uncomfortable to watch sometimes. Matthew Lillard who is a long time solid and hard working actor must have wondered what was he doing in this film. Using real and trained animals is always a crowd pleaser; especially with kids; but the sets are so phony that it's hard to take anything serious. The "bad guys" are straight out of the Home Alone series and it's a huge disappointment. In ending, this movie was one of the worst I've seen in a while and Bindi's acting is really bad. It will be interesting to see how far her father's fame and popularity will take her. I just wish the adults in her life would get super stardom out of her head, and get her back to where she belongs. Teaching people about animals, and conservation.

I really did not like this movie at all. Many people do like it because of the story line but I was expecting to witness the same characters we all fell in love with in the very first Nim's Island not all completely different characters. I really wish they would not have changed so many things. I was very disappointed. Within two minutes of the movie I had to stop watching because of how disappointed I was. I would not recommend this for people who loved the first movie. This movie could be a disappointment to many people. I wish That they still had cast Gerard Butler and all of the original cast. Another thing that I was really cross with was the fact that Nim now has an English accent instead of American. Wrapping it all up, I really wish that this movie had not been made as a disappointment to those who actually enjoyed the first movie Nim's Island.