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Mars Needs Moms

PG

Released Mar 11, 2011

1h 28m

Kids & Family

Comedy

Sci-Fi

Adventure

Animation

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37%

Tomatometer

116 Reviews

40%

Audience Score

25,000+ Ratings

Milo is a 9-year-old boy who has a lot on his mind; he has monster movies to watch, comic books to read and all other kinds of fun stuff to accomplish. He definitely does not have time to do homework or eat his vegetables. He's getting tired of his mom nagging him to do these things, and his mom is tired of nagging. But just as Milo is telling his mom that life would be more fun without her, Martians kidnap her. Milo stows away on their spaceship, determined to launch a rescue.

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Critics Consensus

The cast is solid and it's visually well-crafted, but Mars Needs Moms suffers from a lack of imagination and heart.

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Leonard Maltin

indieWire

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...

Aug 12, 2011

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Jim Schembri

The Age (Australia)

What really sells this fabulous, kid-friendly 3D adventure to anybody over eight (no offense, kids) is its astonishing visuals, which uses motion-capture technology to a degree that surpasses what we saw in Avatar.

Rated: 4/5

Apr 13, 2011

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Jake Wilson

The Age (Australia)

The credited director is Simon Wells (The Time Machine), but the grotesque characters and dark action bear the Zemeckis stamp.

Rated: 1.5/5

Apr 13, 2011

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Brian Eggert

Deep Focus Review

An unsightly experience of motion-capture computer animation comprised of far too many so-called technological advances.

Rated: 1/4

Jul 31, 2023

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

A decent flick that could have been so much more.

Rated: 2.0/4.0

Sep 16, 2020

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Debbie Lynn Elias

Behind The Lens

I just love Simon Wells' sense of adventure and with Mars Needs Moms, he soars.

Nov 16, 2019

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Артем Б

"Mars Needs Moms" can be characterized as one huge festering pimple on the reputation of Disney, from which the studio suffered massive financial losses, hit the reputation of Robert Zemeckis and thereby closed a bunch of potential projects. If you don't pay attention to the graphics, it was a bit of an interesting story, but the fact is that the shell (graphics) lost all the beauty and attractiveness of everything.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

05/01/24

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Platty the Perrypus W

I remember liking it as a kid but UNLIKE chicken little, shark tale, and kronk's new groove, I don't get why.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

01/17/24

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Banku M

I just watched the movie, I didn't like it.. AT ALL, the characters looked so bad, the animation looked gross… Everything about it was just wrong. I am so disappointed in Disney, who even decided that Mars Need Moms would be a great movie in the first place? I dislike it, I don't recommend it, and that's my conclusion.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

11/26/23

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ana luisa u

Los aliens son feos la historia es horrible y los humanos se ven bien no tiene sentido tiene escenas triste pero es un 4 de 10

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

11/11/23

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Grasshopper S

I loved this movie as a kid. childhood!!!!!!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

09/13/23

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Giorgio S

It's one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I hate this type of animated movies and I'm sorry for Seth Green.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

08/05/23

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Simon Wells

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Seth Green

Milo

Dan Fogler

Gribble

Elisabeth Harnois

Ki

Joan Cusack

Mom

Mindy Sterling

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Synopsis

Milo is a 9-year-old boy who has a lot on his mind; he has monster movies to watch, comic books to read and all other kinds of fun stuff to accomplish. He definitely does not have time to do homework or eat his vegetables. He's getting tired of his mom nagging him to do these things, and his mom is tired of nagging. But just as Milo is telling his mom that life would be more fun without her, Martians kidnap her. Milo stows away on their spaceship, determined to launch a rescue.

Director: Simon Wells
Producer: Robert Zemeckis, Jack Rapke, Steve Starkey, Steven Boyd
Screenwriter: Simon Wells, Wendy Wells
Distributor: Walt Disney
Production Co: ImageMovers
Rating: PG (Sci-Fi Action and Peril)
Genre: Kids & Family, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Adventure, Animation
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Mar 11, 2011, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 1, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $21.4M
Runtime: 1h 28m

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