Peter Howell (23 May 2012)

Mars Needs Moms isn't much of a movie, but it's a great teaching tool for how not to make an animated film.

SnakesOnAnAfricanPlain (23 May 2012)

Mars Needs Moms (2011)

Oh dear. This was an incredibly lifeless effort. Mocap shows that ithas a long way to go to capture humanity. This seems like the Mocapfilm least in need of being in the form. It's a story of a boy that isyour usual asshat kid. Then his mom is captured by aliens and herealises how much he loves her. The film is mostly dull, with veryrepetitive landscapes used. Foggler has some great chances foremotional connection as a stranded kid, but he messes it up by justbeing a very poor imitation of Jack Black. And even Jack Black can't beJack Black anymore. Seth Green was screwed over by having his voicecompletely replaced. I'm sure this is false advertising as the trailershad his voice. The film also fails to slow down, with constant chasingand shouting. In the end the main reason this film fails is because ofits confusing messages. If you listen to your mom she'll be taken awayby aliens. Women shouldn't work and should look after kids. Familiesshould comprise of 1 mom and 1 dad in order to be successful. It's hardto know what the film is saying, because it just isn't articulateenough.

Nell Minow (21 May 2012)

Important note: if you are going to make a film whose moral is that mechanical objects can never replace people (or Martians), try not to make exactly that mistake.

Eric D. Snider (21 May 2012)

They took a small story, made it complicated and burdensome, filmed some actors performing it, turned those actors into affectless, mechanical cartoons, converted it to 3-D, and dropped it in theaters. Wheeee!

theghost50 (21 May 2012)

A Message to the Open Minded

Due to the copious negative reviews about "Mars Needs Moms," I decidedto write a quick positive one.I've read a bunch of different kinds of bashing over this film; fromsexism and hidden political agendas to poor animation and a poorlytimed release. Now, I think we can all safely agree that if the viewerreally wants to find something negative about "Mars Needs Moms", theywon't have to look very hard. Keeping this in mind, I went intowatching this film with just one simple goal in mind, to beentertained, and I was. This film really isn't as bad as everyone saysit is as long as you just go into it with the right mind set.The animation is incredible, as well it should be with a $150 milliondollar budget and over 6 minutes worth of end credits of people whoworked hard creating it. Like Beowulf, the human characters look almostidentical to the actor/actress voicing them and the surroundings likethe space sequences, the garbage mountains, and the Mars tunnels arebreathtaking. This simple animation element will be enough to entertainthe open minded person. Yet, the overdone and predictable story isstill heartwarming and I believe it served as a nice reminder of howspecial a mom really is. Though some of the dialogue isn't thegreatest, and there are a few ominous notes played throughout (leavingme to recommend this movie to children over ten), wait for it to godown from a new release rental price and give it a try.

dnsoft (21 May 2012)

Warming, action, SF animated fairy tale!

Is there anybody ask yourself: Why so many people don't like this move,and rate it so poor? Well... if you don't... I am, and I think I knowthe reason why. They don't like fairy tales, they don't haveimagination, they can't believe in fantasy. Those peoples like moviessuch as Godfather 1, 2, 3, (ten thousand), and series like Sopranos! Idon't like that kind of movies, and I never will. If you seek somehidden plots and meanings in this movie, you will be disappointed. Thistale is warming and simple, funny and action packed. Some says it's"scary and violent". What can we say for Pirates of the Caribbeanthen...!? I like Pirates as I like this movie too. This is on Marsadventure. Go see it, you will not regret it!

Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) (18 May 2012)

The best way to enjoy "Mars Needs Moms"? Skip the movie and watch the closing credits.

(18 May 2012)

Mars need mom

This review is from: Mars Needs Moms (Four-Disc Blu-ray 3D / Blu-ray / DVD / Digital Copy Combo) (Blu-ray) Its a very good movie in 3d to have a mormal blu ray dvd and digital copy is in animated cartoon

(17 May 2012)

Disney Exec Who Approved This Needs To Be Fired

Disney movies are generally very well-done, and very entertaining. Mars Needs Moms is neither. None of the characters are really all too likable. And it's kind of creepy how Seth Green plays the voice of the little kid. Moms tell us to throw out the trash and eat broccoli appear to be the main value of being a Mom. Really?

(17 May 2012)

Cute movie with a moral

This review is from: Mars Needs Moms (Amazon Instant Video) This movie held the interest of my elementary age students. Late elementary children and older may not enjoy this film as much (my older child refused to watch it at all.) The film had a great message about appreciating your mom and all she does for you. We have been having an issue lately with a case of the "I wants" and not wanting to follow directions as the holiday season approaches. This was a great way to remind the boys to behave without having to nag them. It was funny and heart-felt. The graphics were good and the target audience was children. I gave it four-stars instead of five on advice of the children as it left out the importance of Dads. The boys felt it should have taught more about appreciating both parents.

Rafer Guzman (16 May 2012)

The film looks neither fully real nor fully imagined, which could be forgiven if Mars Needs Moms had something more to offer besides its nifty technology.

Joshua Starnes (15 May 2012)

No movie called Mars Needs Moms has any right being this good. But it is.

Matthew Pejkovic (15 May 2012)

Visually arresting and emotionally rich, Mars Needs Moms is another animated triumph from a rejuvenated Disney Animation.

william (14 May 2012)

Family Fun With a Moral To The Story

I read some of the reviews of the paid critics before going to watch this one, and had mixed feelings going in. Truthfully, I just wanted to pass a little time away, so why not? This movie started out slowly, but gained momentum and finishes teary-eyed, with a large lump in the throat from emotional impact that brings back fond memories of motherly love. In ways, it reminded me of Toy Story 3. The critics missed this one by more than a country mile because "Mars Needs Moms" is very good. If you belong to the vast majority of parents that have a child or two, or three that needs tough love from time to time and you feel exasperated from it all,take them to see this picture. It could be the trigger that reshapes a young mind to "Honor thy Father and Thy Mother", and teach a powerful lesson that could leave a lasting impression for life. Maybe the critics that gave their opinions never had a mom that loves them or any child that ever talked back or breaks the rules. Who knows? However the case may be, I, for one, appreciate the message within this excellent piece of movie magic. Thumbs up to Disney!!

thesar-2 (13 May 2012)

(Why) Disney Needs Pixar

I usually don't base any of my reviews or thoughts on box officereceipts and in the case of 'Mars Needs Moms' (1/10 Stars), just out ofcuriosity, I checked them after I finished watching it.By the power of Grayskull, I am THRILLED the $150-million-dollarbudgeted film made only $21m in the US and only $39m total worldwide.Finally, justice. Finally, I can say Americans, er, Earthlings ingeneral, showed their disapproval for not just a poorly made film, butfor thee worst animated film in history.There are so many things wrong with this movie, I seriously don't knowif I could list all of them. For starters, the animation was awful,inept and lazy. It played out like the worst video game or like acheaply produced 22-minute Disney teach young kids what shapes are whatand how to love flowers.Worse, (jumping ahead) in the last part of the credits, they showed usin very small boxes (yes, they were so proud of their failure, theyneeded to show us not once, but FOUR times) how they made the animation"come to life."This is one of those movie experiences that my jaw was locked open forpretty much the entire film. I was so in shock in how bad it was, Icouldn't close my snapper. I even tried my best to get past theart-student-drop-out animation to see if the story was enough to gobeyond that.Obviously, not. What we have is a Mars abduction of a mother and herstow-away son in an extremely dangerous and sometimes brutal adventurewhere I was disappointed it was only slapped with a PG. (I'm guessingthe mostly wrong MPAA saw all the cutesy toddler secondary charactersand said, "Ahhhh, well, they meant well for little kids.")The dialogue was atrocious, the references were outdated and the"moral" was misconstrued. See? Get past the laugh-out-loud terriblegraphics and you're left with much less. Heck, the only thing I thinkthey got right was another offensive aspect: Dan Fogler's character had3 very noticeable and disgusting chins.This movie was pathetic, disturbing, heartless, soulless, anabomination and pretty much an insult to real-creative artists who wantto actually make art vs. allowing a computer do the "thinking." (Oh,and by the way, even the computer got the movements, angles and camerapanning wrong.)Lest you ignore my warnings up to this point, and you make it to theend of the film…get ready for one of the most unbearable, uncomfortableand gross-out climaxes in cinema history. Remember that demonic dancingbaby internet "sensation" of a decade ago? Remember how it would creepout even the most evil psychopaths? Well, now multiply that by morethan 2 dozen.And after all these rants, my greatest regret in seeing this was that Ialready made my Bottom Ten of 2011 list a month ago. I saw this onemonth too late to label it as #1 worst of 2011 because it clearly was.Hell, it'll go down as one of the decade's worst and possibly beyond.

thomasjwilliams (13 May 2012)

If only the motherly advice "don't make a mess" had been heeded ...

These LED-studded catsuit-clad animated motion pictures need to goaway. I know that sounded like a mouthful; but the medium is veryoff-putting and it leaves this viewer feeling uneasy (see also Disney'sA Christmas Carol with Jim Carrey and The Polar Express with TomHanks). Those weird-looking, partially-alive-like characters aretoo-much of a meld between live-action and animation to be enjoyed. Iwould suggest either fully animating a film or leaving it inlive-action -- the perfect solution to Mars Needs Moms would have beento have the scenes on Earth portrayed by real-life actors while thescenes on Mars could have become animated (although it isn't as if thissuggestion would have "saved" this Martian mire -- IF neither JimCarrey nor Tom Hanks could salvage this "genre" how-on-earth is SethGreen supposed to do so?!).While the film has a somewhat respectable premise -- "mothers areinvaluable" -- the movie also decides to feature women/female(s) as thecause of destruction and mayhem in the universe (it is a 50/50 crapshot everybody!). Seth Green (Austin Powers, "Robot Chicken", Old Dogs)voices 9 year-old, Milo, who is tired of his well-meaning mother (thevoice of Joan Cusack - In & Out, Working Girl, The Addams FamilyValues) telling him what to do ("eat your vegetables", "take out thetrash", "go to your room" etc.). Milo is a spoiled brat who onlyrealizes an instant too late -- as his mother is abducted by Martiansliterally mere moments earlier (!!!) -- that he was a jerk and waswrong in mistreating his mother.Luckily for Milo (and for the benefit of the movie), he comes onboardthe MOTHERship and soon finds himself on Mars where he quickly comesinto contact with the only other human (other than his captive mother)on the planet (voiced by Dan Fogler -- Take Me Home Tonight, Balls ofFury, Fanboys) who's stalled mission from the 1980's has left himstranded on the furious-female led planet.While there are some nice graphics and some inspired shots (and a fewhilarious 80's references to passing fads "those hideous-looking fakeCabbage Patch Kids" had me laughing), Mars Needs Moms comes across asnothing new -- it is just sci-fi lite family adventure. Mars may be inneed of moms; but this film was in need of some motherly advice --namely "clean up this mess!"

Robert (07 May 2012)

A movie that touches your heart

I wasn't expecting this at all. I really wasn't. I hadn't read the badreviews, however I saw the trailer and figured it would be quite cheesyand probably lame. Oh no aliens took my mother and I have to stop them!Sounded like a cheesy cartoon which would involve shooting aliens andrunning around to find his mom and save her, yada yada yada.Well... boy was I surprised.The movie started out with the whole alien world and because I knew thetitle was Mars needs Moms it implied the aliens were looking for moms.I watched them show two moms who's kids weren't listening, then itshowed a third one who minded his mom. Satisfied by this result, itshows the boy and his mom and how the boy is in that age where hedoesn't know why he should listen to his mom. Before they go to bed hesays he wishes he didn't have a mom. The emotion from that makes youfeel so bad.Now many scenes later the mom got abducted by the aliens, and the boymanaged to hitch a ride and meets some new friends and learns a lot. Bythe time the ending comes you really hope he can save his mom. Theemotions I felt were amazing. More amazing though was the fact that Ieve got some nears near the end. I won't say what happens, but it wasvery emotional and powerful to me.So I would recommend this movie to anyone. And I'm 18 for yourinformation, so hearing that a young adult got tears from a movie likethis must be something.Rated 8/10.

(07 May 2012)

Great Movie!!

This review is from: Mars Needs Moms (Two-Disc Blu-ray / DVD Combo) (Blu-ray) I LOVE this movie!! It has a wonderful message while being fun and entertaining enough for the kids! It was shipped in a very prompt manner and was in great shape when it arrived. Not to mention that I got a GREAT price (compared to the local store) once again here on Amazon.com!!! Thanks :)

Michael Phillips (07 May 2012)

The tone baffles and wobbles. This is one of the least visually appealing films ever to go out under the Disney banner.

mohammed hamade (06 May 2012)

great message, great animation, great idea bad execution

I've just watched it, and a 5 out 10 is more than enough.If want to go and watch it alone without any kid, bad idea. when a 10year old was in a room alone he happens to know how to shut the door sothat the SISS won't open it,saw a window and jumped out of it and wasnot scared! I think that was a huge exaggeration.If you want your kid to watch it, then that is a great idea. the filmsends out a a great message to the kids. To always respect theirmothers. otherwise, the next day they may be kidnapped by martians.if your 13 and above this film is definitely not for you, 12 and downperfect movie