Mars Needs Moms

Eh, I don't like the designs. I've never been big on the whole Twilight Express style of CGI figures who look as much like real people as possible; I find it kind of creepy and off-putting. If you're going to make your CG characters look like real life people, then I say go the whole 9 yards and make it live-action.

Plus, based on the ads I've seen for Mars Needs Moms, it looks like it deviates too much from Berke Breathed's book (the fat guy stationed on Mars and the alien chick weren't in the book) and it just doesn't look like anything I'd go out of my way to watch.

I'll probably wait for this one to come to cable/satellite.
 
The movie looks like a 3D movie that Disney took a poop on...-_-
The Two Cat character sounds like a production named I had on Youtube called 2Cat Productions. They must've stole it...
 
The commercials don't do anything for me at all.

But then I have no taste. I think Invisible War is a great game, and that commercial that they're airing for that film Hop piqued my interest.
 
Looks a darn sight better than Gnomeo and Juliet (it both frightens and confuses me that that movie is doing so well), but I'm very much on the fence about it.
 
It looks like this year's Planet 51... only without the ineresting promos/jokes. I might check it out when it hits the dollar cinemas, though.
 
At least it isn't a "comic relief character squeaking 'awkward!'" joke. You'd have to look at the Rio trailer for one of those.

Protip: if you have to explain the joke . . . yeah.

And, yeah. Uncanny valley is uncanny.
 
If it does better business than Rango I will be extremely surprised. The trailers look horrendous. The animation and characters look awful.

Also, what happened to the kid's voice? Did the Seth Green voice not test well with the character, Milo?
 
According to the story I just saw on Yahoo this evening, it was decided that Seth Green's voice didn't sound enough like a kid, so the role was re-recorded with an actual child actor. Green appears to not mind, though, as he's apparently still doing promotion for the film and I've seen pics of him with the young actor who replaced him.
 
I've seen a lot of promos for this movie, a couple of billboards and I even saw the whole trailer while waiting for the Yu-Gi-Oh! anniversary movie to begin in theaters. Despite that, I don't really have any urge to see it. I don't think it looks like a terrible movie. The premise is kind of cute and makes me think that there will be some genuinely nice/touching mother and child moments near the end of the movie. But it doesn't look like something I'd go to watch in theaters. I'm not even bothered by the fact that the characters look like real people despite the fact I only liked how that worked in the Polar Express. It looks and sounds more like a movie I'd watch if it was airing on TV one night more than anything else to me.
 
He didn't direct it; he's just a producer. Also, this is ImageWorks' final project. Let's hope Robert returns to live-action after this.



I'm wondering the same thing.
 
See, the reason I'm excited for Tintin is because they seem to be tempering the "realism" a bit with more stylized characters like with Beowulf.

This doesn't. It looks creepy. Even the less photo-real characters look creepy and off-putting. It also looks obnoxious, especially that awful fat astronaut.
 
Of course, most of the reviews say it's better as visual candy than storytelling. I may see it in theaters, but if I do, I'm going for the 3D.
 
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