Preview: Mars Needs Moms (2011)

Synopsis:

A young boy's mother is abducted by Martians and he must do everything he can to rescue her.

• Poster: C

Review:

OMG! A spaceship! Next.

• Trailer: C-; C; D

Review:

As if the terrible motion-capture animation weren't bad enough, the trailer lacks humor, feels uneducated and altogether bores.

Little variance from the first trailer, though it does add a touch of humor that was missing, but it further sells itself as a miserably unfunny film that tries for laughs and fails.

In the third trailer, the original song from the film is used as a narrative focus, leaving the audience bewildered and unimpressed. The music is laughable and uninspired and makes for a poor selling tool.

Oscar Prospects:

Every animated feature has a chance at Best Animated Feature, but motion-capture animation has only once cracked the top five (or three) and that's only because Monster House didn't look like it.

Release Date:

• March 11, 2011

Full Review Synopsis:

I have not seen this film.

-Wesley Lovell (November 23, 2010) Original

-Wesley Lovell (March 6, 2011) New Trailers