i must have seen a different film!!

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

This movie is that special level of bad. The company that made the 2007 Beowulf, polar express, and that Jim Carrey Christmas Carroll also developed this turd, pretending to be a movie. And it was a fatal mistake. This mars needs moms failed to make any money, and caused image movers digital to fuse back with image movers. It was the worst received Disney-branded movie! Anyway, onto the plot. Good grief. So, on the magnificent red planet, deep below ground. Where secrets don't keep. And anger is restless. Lives this old alien woman with a cane toad face, who is talking to a noseless alien with cat eyes, and... Orange gums. And an, ahem, curvy, attractive figure... Because there needs to be SOMETHING for accompanying adults to enjoy. Anyway, empress Pauline of mars, the even more ugly alien, I mentioned earlier, is too much of a workaholic to raise her own kids, as are all the other martians. So every few years, she absorbs the memories of human mothers into her robots to raise her own babies. Because HUMAN babies have the same needs as MARTIAN babies. Sure, whatever. They spot one mother who is ordering her offspring to take out the rubbish. This offspring's name is Milo. He is a poorly rendered CGI rhesus monkey, I mean, human. Sorry, Milo really does look like he should be climbing the ancient temples of India, screeching and harassing tourists. Anyway, Milo was only helpful at carrying out rubbish so the aliens can think his mother is a strict and able parent to be plot convenient. Once out of the reach of the alien's super telescopes, he reveals his true colours. Milo is a manipulative brat who whines when his dad cancels cinema night, which can be easily rearranged for another night, so it fails at being an overdone 'my parents missed a special even in my childhood' moment. When made to eat broccoli, Milo does something sweet: he kindly donates the nutritious vegetables to his cat, and lies to his mom, claiming to have eaten them himself. which goes as successfully as you'd expect feeding greenery to a mammal of carnivora would go. When the poor kitty cannot keep his meal down, he up chucks it in front of his master's mother, ratting him Milo out. Milo decides to pull off the old 'you have to be more specific' card when told to go to bed, obnoxiously hopping on the bed, rather than laying in it. His mum gets annoyed. When she wishes she didn't have to be so nagging, Milo verbally expresses his resentment of having a mother, in her face. Sure, the mom overreacts, but this is still a horrible thing for a child to say. The aliens very politely abduct his mom, right after Milo stated he wished she wasn't around, deciding they'd be the monkeys paw and grant his wish to teach him to be cautious and stuff. Milo observes the spaceship taking off, hits the metallic multi-ton space vessel with a wooden stick, because his cruelty is rivalled by his idiocy, gets his shirt caught on the side of the ship, and exposure kills him when it takes off. He is somehow shut into a chamber on the ship, via mechanical hoodoo, and gets sent to mars via unexplained wormhole travel. When on mars, he is in a chamber that gets dark. He panics as a voice tells him to go down the trash chute. Under the Underground lies a world of trash, which evokes awe from Milo. The immature male martians are inferior to the females, ergo the females throw them in the trash along with their rubbish. No, I'm not kidding. Among them is gribble, a human self-proclaimed astronaut. He is the only human-looking human in this movie, sure, he looks like an ugly human, but he is nonetheless human in appearance. He has a pet bug robot who doesn't play any major role. He says every few years, martians steal earth moms, use their memories to power robots, every few years to keep up with newer human trends, presumably. After extracting memories, a solar- powered laser BLASTS THE MOMS TO ATOMS!!!! Yes, that's a lovely idea for children to ponder. Milo tries to save his mom, but gribble rigs his plan to fail, and have him fall into the trash world again. But Milo finds gribble has been kidnapped. So he goes up again, rescues gribble, and befriend the nose-less cat woman alien with the hourglass figure and gingivitis. She hooks up with gribble... Okay. They fall into the trash world again... And then into Pandora world from James Cameron's avatar. There, they discover a mural of a martian family raising babies. They decide families are awesome. So they try to save Milo's mom and change the emperor martians mind. It turns out gribble is really named George Ribble at birth and his mom was killed in front of him. and life on the planet had traumatised him. Milo races to save his mom, wakes her up, naked baby aliens attack the adult aliens, evil emperor alien is saved, Milo almost dies because he gives his helmet to his mom, and Gribble's old helmet he left in the desert still is intact. Also, humans only need helmets to survive on mars, not full spacesuits. The Martians learn family values. Gribble hooks up with the cat alien, and lives on mars. And Milo goes home with his family and lives happily stupid after. The end.

This movie interested me once I saw the trailer for it. And Joan Cusack is one of my favorite actresses, so I decided to see. This film was a big box office flop, and the ratings were just so so for those who did see it. I appreciate the effort, I could tell they tried. It's just that with this animated flick, the substance just wasn't there. There wasn't anything exciting or interesting about this movie. The dialogue was dull, the plot was lackluster, the animation was just alright at best. Now Joan Cusack did do a really good job with her voice acting the mom. I liked her in that role. Unfortunately that was just about it, I appreciate Disney trying, but this one just didn't cut it. 4/10 for Mars needs moms

I thought this movie was going to be stupid. In fact, when watching Mars Needs Moms, I was surprised. This is a movie that actually was great fun. But its flawed fun.The story focuses on Milo, a kid who is a troublemaker. One night after he says something harsh to his mom, she gets kidnapped by aliens! Why? So that they can put the souls of the moms into Robots that take care of Baby Aliens. So he has to go save her before its too late.The first thing you will notice is the animation. The animation is one of the film's strongest parts. Just look at how realistic the animation is. It is actually like watching a Live Action film the animation is so good. This is thanks to Image Movers (This was their last film) as they are gathered some of the greatest animators and they worked to their best. The motion capture is very sophisticated due to the many emotions the characters make.Enough with animation. Time to talk characters and acting. The acting is impressive by Seth Green and Joan Cusack. Green actually voices a kid in this movie that he did the motion capture for. His acting and Joan Cusack's acting as the mom makes them look like a realistic son-mother team. We have some other characters, one played by Dan Fogler who has his little underground base and a alien who loves color. These characters range from goofy to smart. They are stock characters though but they are used to their best.The story and script have some originality. I mean, this is the first movie that breaks new ground by having Aliens kidnap Moms *Snickers* but not all of it is original as we have the ACTUAL character reveal like we have all seen before and the Oh we think he/she is dead but is not. But the script is like a Classic 90's kids film that keeps me entertained throughout.Mars Needs Moms was panned by critics and audiences and I can see why. But you should give this movie a chance. I really enjoyed this film and had a great message about family. Its sad that this is Image Movers last film. But I will always remember them as one of the greatest animation companies in the world.78/100 B

I was expecting this to be a stupid movie, based solely on the name, but I saw it in 2D on satellite, and it was pretty good. It deserves somewhere between 7 and 8. The lower scores suggest something political is going on, or else the 3D must have been terrible.It certainly does have its stupid spots... a wormhole? Multiple below-ground societies on Mars? But it's animated, so you suspend disbelief early on.This film contrasts the somewhat egalitarian Western societies we all know, with the sex-segregated matriarchy of Mars, and Mars looks pretty bad in that comparison. Looked at another way, the film contrasts the electronic society we all live in today, with the real world we used to live in.Overall, it's a message of love of all kinds - family and friend.I was not creeped out by the animation at all. I liked the realism of the human faces, and the crispness of everything else.This film has been charged with being homophobic, sexist, and transphobic. These are simply lies. As a gay person, I say this is a pro-family film, in the real sense of the word. When it talks about family and love, it doesn't say "mom and dad", it doesn't say "two parents". It just says kids and "parents" (the alternative clearly being identified as machines). That's it. People are really looking for a reason to hate this film, and it's sad that's what it's come to.The message of the film is strongly anti-sexist. Our hero re-integrates Mars, leaving behind a society where there are no gender roles. It's beautiful.