Mars Needs Moms (2011)

Release date: 2011-03-11
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: Simon Wells
Production Co: Walt Disney Pictures, ImageMovers Digital, FortyFour Studios
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Family, Science Fiction
Rating: 5.4/10
Length: 1h 28min

Storyline

On Mars, the female babies are nursed by robots while the male babies are dumped in the junkyard under the command of Supervisor. They research Earth and finds that the boy Milo is raised by his Mom with love and discipline. The Martians come to Earth and abduct Mom, to use her brain to instruct the robots about how to raise children. However, Milo sneaks into the spaceship and comes to Mars. He meets Gribble, a young man that behaves like a child and together with the hippie Martian Ki and Gribble's friend Wingnut, they try to rescue Mom and bring her back to Earth. But Supervisor will give her best efforts to stop Milo and his friends.

Plot Keywords

martian, motion capture, cgi animation, american, small town, indiana, suffocation, recluse, garbage dump, sexism, claim in title, surrogate mother, alien, mars the planet, mother son relationship, 3 dimensional, alien abduction, helmet, psychotronic film, robot

Short Review

As with a good live-action movie, it all begins with the script, and this one is solid-well thought-out, briskly paced, funny and sweet. In the end, it's the finished film that matters, not the process...