Monday, June 18, 2012

Mars Needs Moms (2011)


[complete disaster]

Mars Needs Moms (2011)
IMDB- 5.1
Rotten Tomatoes- 37
RJG Ratings- 20

Milo,a 9 year old boy ,witnesses the abduction of his mother by aliens.Will he able to rescue her?

Starring- Seth Green,Dan Fogle,Joan Cusack
Director- Simon Wells

Mars Needs Moms is an animated motion capture movie in the likes of Beowulf ,Polar Express etc.It was produced by Robert Zemeckis.

MNM is a completely cliched movie and is completely predictable.The use of motion capture usually turns up great (Polar Express ,Christmas Carol) ,but for MNM this was a bad idea.All the characters are weird to even look at.The human characters look too real and ends up in the "uncanny valley".
[*uncanny valley-It is a hypothesis in the field of robotics and 3D computer animation,which holds that when human replicas look and act almost, but not perfectly, like actual human beings, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers.]

As for the aliens,they too look extremely strange.But the actors have done a fine job.

Story is poor and predictable.Direction is average.If you could sit through the unbearable first half ,you get accustomed with all the weirdness and find the second half a bit more tolerable.The dialogues and scenes are all cringe worthy.

On release ,MNM was a big failure and is considered as one of the biggest box office bombs of all time.Producer Robert Zemeckis, who had decided to stop making live action movies after Castaway and solely concentrate on making motion capture animated movies, was forced to abandon his next animated venture- The Yellow Submarine.

Overall this is a movie which doesnt appeal neither the adults nor the kids.Give it a miss.

Animation- 2/5
Story- 1/5
Direction- 1/5
Drama- 1/5
Comedy- 1/5
Action-3.5/5

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