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| + | |producer = [[Robert Zemeckis]] <br>Jack Rapke <br>Steve Starkey <br>Steven Boyd |
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+ | |writer = '''Story'''<br />[[wikipedia:Simon Wells|Simon Wells]]<br />[[wikipedia:Wendy Wells|Wendy Wells]] |
| + | |starring = [[Seth Green]]<br>[[Dan Fogler]]<br>[[Elisabeth Harnois]]<br>[[Mindy Sterling]]<br>[[Joan Cusack]] |
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| − | | producer = [[Walt Disney]] |
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| + | |music = John Powell |
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| + | |cinematography = Robert Presley |
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| + | |editor = Wayne Wahnman |
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| + | |studio = [[Walt Disney Pictures]]<br>[[ImageMovers Digital]] |
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| ⚫ | '''''Mars Needs Moms''''' is a [[2011]] |
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| + | |release = [[March 11]], [[2011]] |
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| − | + | This was the final movie produced by [[ImageMovers Digital]] before its closure in 2011. It grossed only $39 million worldwide on a $150 million dollar budget, making it a box-office flop. |
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==Plot== |
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| + | On the planet Mars there is a thriving and technologically sophisticated society of Martians living below the planet's surface. The Martians' Supervisor observes Earth and sees a mother getting her son Milo to take out the trash. She is impressed by this and decides to bring her to Mars, where her knowledge of how to raise children will be extracted and implanted into the next generation of nannybots to raise their young. |
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| − | Mischievous and rebellious nine-year-old [[Milo]] (Seth Green, voice-over by Seth Dusky) is just beginning summer vacation, and his father (Tom Everett Scott) is leaving for a business trip. While Milo is wanting his summer to be a fun one, his mother ([[Joan Cusack]]) assigns him chores and tasks like taking out the trash. At dinnertime, Milo is given broccoli. His mother has a "no broccoli, no TV" rule which Milo cleverly evades by feeding the broccoli to his pet cat. When Milo's mother finds the cat throwing up from the broccoli, she sends him to bed early. After a heated disagreement with his mother, Milo wishes that he never had a mom. Later that night, his wish comes true when his mother is abducted by Martians who plan to steal her "momness" to rear their own young. |
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| + | Meanwhile, Milo (who does not seem to enjoy following the house rules very much) gets caught feeding his broccoli to the family's pet cat and is grounded. He sarcastically tells his mother that his life would be a lot better if she wasn't there. Milo soon regrets this thoughtless statement and goes to apologize, but then discovers his mom is being abducted. He successfully enters the Martian spaceship: however, they end up separated when they arrive on Mars. Milo is taken to an underground cell and tries to escape, only to be pursued by Martian guards. He hears a voice speaking over an intercom, telling him to jump down the chute. He does so and ends up in a subterranean level filled with trash and inhabitated by furry Martian creatures. |
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| − | Milo's quest to save his mom involves stowing away on a spaceship, navigating an elaborate, multi-level planet and taking on the alien nation and their villainous [[Supervisor]] (Mindy Sterling). With the help of tech-savvy subterranean-dwelling earthling [[Gribble]] (Dan Fogler), his bionic underground pet Two-Cat ([[Dee Bradley Baker]]), and rebellious Martian Ki (Elisabeth Harnois), Milo finds his way back to his mom |
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| + | After Milo escapes the creatures, he meets Gribble (aka George Ribble) the childlike and tech-savvy man living in the area with his pet robot Two-Cat who told him to jump down the chute. Gribble agrees to help Milo rescue his mom but the plan goes awry when he is captured. Milo is then rescued by Ki, an upbeat Martian girl who previously learned English from 1970s psychedelic TV shows. He tells her what a human relationship is like, as the Martians were always raised by machines and do not know love. |
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| − | The Martians are born from the ground every five years. By an automated process, robots separate the males from the females. The males are cast into the garbage dump (where they live a primitive existence). Each female is placed in the care of a nanny robot. Each batch of nannies requires an earthling mother to provide their maternal programing. The process which will download each mother's memories results in her death. |
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| − | The females are raised by the robot nannies to join a highly regimented matriarchal society; highly technological and free of physical affection. The Supervisor constructed this society to be freed from the burdens of child rearing. |
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| − | At the beginning of the film, Martians observe Earth mothers, passing up those who are too indulgent or unable to control their children. They select Milo's mother based on her ability to command Milo to take out the trash. |
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| + | Milo soons finds out that Gribble is going to be executed and runs to the execution site. He almost gets captured, but Ki gives him a laser gun which allows them to escape. Milo and Gribble retreat to an even lower level, where Gribble describes his own mother's abduction twenty years earlier, revealing that the memory extraction process will vaporize Milo's mother. After Ki finds him, they discover an ancient mural of a Martian family and realize Martian children weren't always raised by robots. Gribble says Martian female babies are raised by nannybots, as the male ones are sent down to the trash heap to be raised by the furry Martians Milo saw earlier. |
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| − | Upon arrival on Mars, Milo is locked up in a jail cell, but manages to escape down a garbage chute where he meets Gribble. Gribble helps him devise a plan to save Milo's mom and get her back to Earth before Earth's night is up. Unfortunately, the plan goes awry at a Martian checkpoint, when Milo is exposed and the troops raid Gribble's hideout, but Milo is able to escape. While hiding from the guards, Milo runs in to Ki, whose been spraying graffiti in the form of flowers throughout the underground city, having been inspired by a 1960s Earth TV show. |
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| + | Milo saves his mother just before sunrise, causing the extraction device and the electronic locks in the control room to short out. The adult males and hatchlings enter, running amok and attacking the guards. Milo and his mom grab breathing helmets and try to make it across the surface, but the Supervisor shoots at Milo and makes him trip, causing his helmet to break. His mom gives him her own helmet so he won't die but she starts suffocating in the Martian air. The Martians are astonished by this selfless act, as this is the first time they have seen love. Gribble finds his own mother's helmet and gives it to Milo's mom, saving her life. The Supervisor tries to intervene but Ki explains that Martians were meant to be raised in families. The Supervisor declares the current situation more efficient, causing the Martian guards to turn on her and realize the important of family life. She is arrested and the Martians rejoice. |
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| − | Once Milo makes it back to Gribble's hideout and discovers the truth about Gribble's name (being George Ribble), Gribble confesses to Milo on how he wound up on Mars: twenty five years ago, back in the 1980s, the Martians selected Gribble's mother as a fine example to program their nannybots. Like Milo, Gribble stowed away, but failed to rescue his mother in time and was stranded on Mars ever since, but finding company in the form of a male Martian and robot. |
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| + | Milo, his mom, Gribble, Two-Cat and Ki return to Earth and Gribble proclaims that he is going to stay on Mars, as he wishes to pursue a romantic relationship with Ki. Milo and his mom arrive home just before Milo's dad returns. |
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| − | After Ki manages to locate Milo and Gribble in an untouched part of the Martian underground world, they come across an ancient cave painting that showed Martian families were like Earth families in the past. After evading the guards and capturing a spaceship, Milo manages to wake up his mother, and save her before the download destroys her, but in the process of escaping out onto the Martian surface, Milo trips and breaks his space helmet. |
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| − | As Milo begins to choke in the unbreathable Martian atmosphere, Milo's mother gives him her space helmet. Although Milo's life is saved, the life of his mother has now been put at stake. Before the eyes of the Martians, Gribble (not wanting to see another Earth boy lose his mother) manages to find the space helmet he'd attempted to save his mom with and gives it to Milo's mother, showing the Martians the one thing they'd overlooked about Earth moms: love for their children, in which Milo apologizes to his mother about the disagreement. Afterwards, just as it looks like the Supervisor will recapture the Earthlings, Ki reveals the photo of the ancient cave painting and the Supervisor's deception to the soldiers, causing them to turn against the Supervisor. |
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| + | *[[Seth Green]] as [[Milo (Mars Needs Moms)|Milo]] (motion capture) |
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| − | With the Supervisor in prison, Ki and Gribble return Milo and his mother to Earth, just before Milo's dad returns home. Having nowhere else to go and having exposed feelings for Ki, Gribble decides to stay on Mars and returns there. Milo then takes out the trash before his mother asks him to, but secretly disintegrates it with a Martian weapon. |
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| + | *[[Seth Dusky]] as Milo (voice only) |
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| + | *[[Joan Cusack]] as Milo's mom |
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| + | *Tom Everett Scott as Milo's dad |
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| + | *[[Elisabeth Harnois]] as [[Ki]] |
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| + | *[[Dan Fogler]] as [[Gribble]] |
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| + | *[[Mindy Sterling]] as The Supervisor |
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| + | *Kevin Cahoon as Wingnut |
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| + | *[[Ryan Ochoa]], Robert Ochoa, [[Raymond Ochoa]], and Gavin Bryson Thompson as Martian Hatchlings |
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| + | *Liam and Edgar Wells as Robot Martians |
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| + | *[[Dee Bradley Baker]] as Two-Cat |
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| − | Under the new leadership of Gribble and Ki, the male and female Martians work together in raising their young, while the Supervisor is stuck with nanny duty. Gribble manages to contact Milo and let him know how he is by using the Spirit rover as a communication station. |
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| + | Simon Wells first meet [[Robert Zemeckis]] in the mid-1980s when he was supervising animator and storyboard artist for the film ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit]]''. He also worked on ''Back to the Future Part II'' and ''III'' and later worked on ''The Polar Express'', which was why he was attracted to making Mars Needs Moms. The production designer was Doug Chiang, and the supervising art director was Norm Newberry. The title of the film is a twist on the title of American International Pictures' 1966 film ''Mars Needs Women''. After spending six weeks outfitted in a special sensor-equipped motion-capture suit while simultaneously performing Milo's lines, [[Seth Green]]'s voice sounded too old and mature for the character and was dubbed over by that of then 11-year-old actor [[Seth Dusky]]. |
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| − | *Milo's Dad |
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| − | *Milo's Mom |
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| − | *[[Gribble]] |
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| − | *Ki |
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| − | *The Hatchlings |
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| − | *Wingnut |
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| − | *Robot Martians |
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| − | *The [[Supervisor]] |
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| + | ''Mars Needs Moms'' was released in theaters on [[March 11]], [[2011]]. |
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| ⚫ | The trailer of the film premiered in front of ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1'', and then was attached to ''[[Tangled]]''. The film was a bomb on its opening weekend with just $6,914,488 on its first week while playing at 3,117 locations. This was the 12th worst opening ever for a film playing in 3000+ theaters, but dropped only 23% due to spring break in week 2. In weeek 3, it plunged by 58% to $2,258,428. As of December 7, 2011, the movie has grossed just $21,392,758 on a $150 million budget, and at the moment is technically the fifth biggest box-office bomb in film history, with a net loss of $111,007,242, when counting the foreign gross of $17.6 million. |
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| + | ===Home media=== |
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| + | The film was released on DVD, Blu-ray, and Blu-ray 3D on [[August 9]], [[2011]]. |
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| + | ==Reception== |
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| + | ===Critical response=== |
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| + | Mars Needs Moms received an approval rating of 37% on Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes based on 115 reviews, stating "The cast is solid and it's visually well-crafted, but Mars Needs Moms suffers from a lack of imagination and heart."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mars_needs_moms/ |title=Mars Needs Moms |work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |accessdate=July 1, 2013}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 15:23, 25 March 2020
Mars Needs Moms is a 2011 3D computer-animated science fiction adventure film based on the Berkeley Breathed book of the same title. It was released on March 11, 2011 by Walt Disney Pictures and co-written and directed by Simon Wells.
This was the final movie produced by ImageMovers Digital before its closure in 2011. It grossed only $39 million worldwide on a $150 million dollar budget, making it a box-office flop.
Plot
On the planet Mars there is a thriving and technologically sophisticated society of Martians living below the planet's surface. The Martians' Supervisor observes Earth and sees a mother getting her son Milo to take out the trash. She is impressed by this and decides to bring her to Mars, where her knowledge of how to raise children will be extracted and implanted into the next generation of nannybots to raise their young.
Meanwhile, Milo (who does not seem to enjoy following the house rules very much) gets caught feeding his broccoli to the family's pet cat and is grounded. He sarcastically tells his mother that his life would be a lot better if she wasn't there. Milo soon regrets this thoughtless statement and goes to apologize, but then discovers his mom is being abducted. He successfully enters the Martian spaceship: however, they end up separated when they arrive on Mars. Milo is taken to an underground cell and tries to escape, only to be pursued by Martian guards. He hears a voice speaking over an intercom, telling him to jump down the chute. He does so and ends up in a subterranean level filled with trash and inhabitated by furry Martian creatures.
After Milo escapes the creatures, he meets Gribble (aka George Ribble) the childlike and tech-savvy man living in the area with his pet robot Two-Cat who told him to jump down the chute. Gribble agrees to help Milo rescue his mom but the plan goes awry when he is captured. Milo is then rescued by Ki, an upbeat Martian girl who previously learned English from 1970s psychedelic TV shows. He tells her what a human relationship is like, as the Martians were always raised by machines and do not know love.
Milo soons finds out that Gribble is going to be executed and runs to the execution site. He almost gets captured, but Ki gives him a laser gun which allows them to escape. Milo and Gribble retreat to an even lower level, where Gribble describes his own mother's abduction twenty years earlier, revealing that the memory extraction process will vaporize Milo's mother. After Ki finds him, they discover an ancient mural of a Martian family and realize Martian children weren't always raised by robots. Gribble says Martian female babies are raised by nannybots, as the male ones are sent down to the trash heap to be raised by the furry Martians Milo saw earlier.
Milo saves his mother just before sunrise, causing the extraction device and the electronic locks in the control room to short out. The adult males and hatchlings enter, running amok and attacking the guards. Milo and his mom grab breathing helmets and try to make it across the surface, but the Supervisor shoots at Milo and makes him trip, causing his helmet to break. His mom gives him her own helmet so he won't die but she starts suffocating in the Martian air. The Martians are astonished by this selfless act, as this is the first time they have seen love. Gribble finds his own mother's helmet and gives it to Milo's mom, saving her life. The Supervisor tries to intervene but Ki explains that Martians were meant to be raised in families. The Supervisor declares the current situation more efficient, causing the Martian guards to turn on her and realize the important of family life. She is arrested and the Martians rejoice.
Milo, his mom, Gribble, Two-Cat and Ki return to Earth and Gribble proclaims that he is going to stay on Mars, as he wishes to pursue a romantic relationship with Ki. Milo and his mom arrive home just before Milo's dad returns.
Cast
- Seth Green as Milo (motion capture)
- Seth Dusky as Milo (voice only)
- Joan Cusack as Milo's mom
- Tom Everett Scott as Milo's dad
- Elisabeth Harnois as Ki
- Dan Fogler as Gribble
- Mindy Sterling as The Supervisor
- Kevin Cahoon as Wingnut
- Ryan Ochoa, Robert Ochoa, Raymond Ochoa, and Gavin Bryson Thompson as Martian Hatchlings
- Liam and Edgar Wells as Robot Martians
- Dee Bradley Baker as Two-Cat
Production
Simon Wells first meet Robert Zemeckis in the mid-1980s when he was supervising animator and storyboard artist for the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit. He also worked on Back to the Future Part II and III and later worked on The Polar Express, which was why he was attracted to making Mars Needs Moms. The production designer was Doug Chiang, and the supervising art director was Norm Newberry. The title of the film is a twist on the title of American International Pictures' 1966 film Mars Needs Women. After spending six weeks outfitted in a special sensor-equipped motion-capture suit while simultaneously performing Milo's lines, Seth Green's voice sounded too old and mature for the character and was dubbed over by that of then 11-year-old actor Seth Dusky.
Release
Mars Needs Moms was released in theaters on March 11, 2011.
Home media
The film was released on DVD, Blu-ray, and Blu-ray 3D on August 9, 2011.
Reception
Critical response
Mars Needs Moms received an approval rating of 37% on Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes based on 115 reviews, stating "The cast is solid and it's visually well-crafted, but Mars Needs Moms suffers from a lack of imagination and heart."[1]
Marketing
The trailer of the film premiered in front of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, and then was attached to Tangled. The film was a bomb on its opening weekend with just $6,914,488 on its first week while playing at 3,117 locations. This was the 12th worst opening ever for a film playing in 3000+ theaters, but dropped only 23% due to spring break in week 2. In weeek 3, it plunged by 58% to $2,258,428. As of December 7, 2011, the movie has grossed just $21,392,758 on a $150 million budget, and at the moment is technically the fifth biggest box-office bomb in film history, with a net loss of $111,007,242, when counting the foreign gross of $17.6 million.
References
- ↑ "Mars Needs Moms". Retrieved on July 1, 2013.
