A particular highlight is the theme heard in "I Love the World" - a beautiful motif reminiscent of a phrase of "Billy\'s Theme" from The Departed. This is not to suggest Mimzy is not made distinct from the earlier efforts - neither the Celtic instrumentation nor hymnal sound of Shore\'s hobbit music are referenced here, nonetheless there\'s an unassuming cheerfulness to the music that few who haven\'t heard Nobody\'s Fool or Mrs Doubtfire will be able to relate to anything else in the composer\'s post-2000 oeuvre. The churning arpeggiated celli at the climax of that cue, the gentle French horn lead-in to the pastoral theme of "Whidbey Island", the oboe and pizzicati interaction of "Scribbles" - it\'s all unmistakably the man who wrote music for Tolkien\'s hobbits. "The Mandala" sets forth with a brief quizzical woodwind fanfare, which builds into a slightly gentler version of Shore\'s unused cue for the rebirth of Gandalf in The Two Towers. Shaye was evidently impressed with Howard Shore\'s work on Lord of the Rings, for the composer lends his very distinctive voice to a small, warm orchestral underscore for the family-based science fiction film. The film marks New Line Cinema\'s Robert Shaye\'s second attempt at feature direction, adapting the Henry Kuttner\'s 1943 story Mimsy Were the Borogroves. But to hear this ingenuity applied to fresh genres and musical settings has been a reliable pleasure, yielding gems like the orchestral/choral leitmotif splendor of The Lord of the Rings, the tango-led hijinks of The Departed, the romantic/baroque hybrid of The Aviator, the western style scoring of Viggo Mortensen\'s duality in A History of Violence, and of course, one of the best video game scores to date ( Soul of the Ultimate Nation).
His instinct for storytelling, in particular devising appropriate musical metaphors for the subtext of each film, has always served him well as a film composer. It\'s been a real joy to see Howard Shore\'s advance to the film composing A-Grade since his signing for the Peter Jackson Lord of the Rings adaptations.
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