Everyone's entitled to their opinion. Ultimately, it's your $80, the decision on whether or not to purchase Mimic is yours, and no one can change that, no matter how much string they use.

I've been using Mimic 1.0 for years, and am happy with its results. Although I recently installed Mimic 2, I haven't had much opportunity to try it out yet. Sometimes the poses generated by the software do require some tweaking, especially with poor-quality audio samples, but that's what the new timeline and editing tools are for.

I'd be happy to email you some of my lipsynced animations, but they probably wouldn't change your opinion, since most of them feature the animal figures with custom-made morphs.