[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
