Mars Needs Moms

***Mars Needs Moms*** is a 2011 American 3D motion capture computer-animated science-fiction comedy film based on the Berkeley Breathed book of the same name, produced by Walt Disney Pictures and ImageMovers Digital (The last film produced by ImageMovers Digital before it absorbed back into ImageMovers), and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, and was directed by Simon Wells.

## Plot

The plot is centered on Milo, a nine-year-old boy who finally comes to understand the importance of family, and has to rescue his mother after she is abducted by Martians.

## Bad Qualities

1. Hideous and cringe-inducing motion capture animation with terrible physics.
	* The producers should have realized that motion-capture animation is still a developing technology.
2. There's very little worldbuilding, which leaves more questions than answers.
3. The character designs are awful, since the Martians look less creepy than the humans, with one exception.
	* Speaking of the Martians, their designs are oddly sexual with characters like Ki having unusually large rear ends and wide hips.
	* Milo looks and sounds too old to be a 9-year-old and his mother sounds too old to be a mother.
4. The characters are flat and uninteresting. Milo's mother is basically just a typical domestic mother with no depth, Milo himself has no realistic character development, and Milo's dad is only seen at the beginning and the end.
5. Terrible action-packed sequences.
6. Lame attempts at humor.
7. The Martians have no subtitles, even when Milo is wearing a translator.
8. Milo is an unlikeable and selfish brat and his voice is very annoying. He also has no personality other than enjoying zombie movies and at the start of the movie, he says one line that's so disrespectful, that you'll hate him (or want him to get comeuppance) throughout the movie. (He says that his life would be better if he didn’t have a mom at all, which is the most heartless thing a kid could ever say to their own parent).
	* Even after this rancid line, all he does throughout the movie is constantly state the obvious and spout random nonsense to the point where it’s debatable whether or not he can be considered a character.
9. Numerous scenes that unnecessarily go on for too long. For example, when Milo tells his mom that he doesn't want a mother, she looks sad and shocked and the scene holds for too long. The same thing that applies with Number 7.
10. The supervisors' motivation is not very helpful.
11. Not very faithful to the source material from the book it is based on.

## Good Qualities

1. The ending was very heartwarming. It was too bad, to say the least.
2. Continuing from #1, at least Milo apologized to his mom for what he said to her earlier, but that still doesn't excuse the overly-long sad mom scene. Then again, he did say he was sorry for everything that was wrong of him, so at least he's not completely heartless.
3. Gribble's design is actually pretty good.
4. The soundtrack is at least decent.
5. The voice acting is somewhat okay.
6. Gribble's bad childhood was very touching.
7. While stilted and awkward, the animation is realistic and is pretty good in some scenes, like it was taken from a video game cutscene.
8. Gribble and Ki are likable.