Nim's Island

Chosen answer: No. Gerard Butler plays Alex Rover because Nim imagines him looking like her father. Alexandra Rover sees him like that merely for the sake of consistency within the film.

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Question: I can't figure out why the lizard is screaming when he is flying through the air because I'm sure that lizards don't scream.

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Chosen answer: Because it's funny.

Grumpy Scot

Question: They may have answered this, but how does the island have plumbing, power, and Internet if it is remote and almost completely uninhabited?

Answer: Generator. It's shown several times during the film.

Brenda Elzin

Question: Why did Nim think Edmund was part of the story about her mother?

Answer: The name of the ship is the Buccaneer, and when Jack told Nim the story "The Scientist and the Blue Whale", he said that buccaneers showed up and that was why the blue whale swallowed the scientist (Nim's mother).

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Factual error: Alex Rover travels from San Francisco in a large plane to Borneo, then a small plane to Rarotonga, then a small boat to Tuvalu, then a helicopter to the Buccaneer cruise ship (located close enough to Nim's Island at 20S-162W for her to row there). My globe shows these places to generally be too far from one another given the particular mode of transport. Borneo and Tuvalu are too far out of the way to fit with this story.

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Quotes

Jack: Be the hero of your own life story.
Alex Rover: Don't hand me that line - I wrote that line.

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