*** (out of four)
Includes the voices of Seth Dusky,
Joan Cusack, Dan Fogler and
Mindy Sterling.
Directed by Simon Wells.
Approximately 82 minutes, Rated PG.
Back in November, when I went to see ``Tangled'', I saw a trailer for the upcoming animated movie ``Mars Needs Moms''. Holy smokes, it looked terrible. I was only amused once during the preview and I wasn't amused too much. A few months later, I watched a movie clip of ``Mars Needs Moms''. You're probably thinking that I would think that it looked good after seeing the clip.
Nope. I thought it looked dumb still. However, next month, I had seen every movie that I could possibly see in theaters that I wanted to see and I just decided to take a risk and see ``Mars Needs Moms''. I didn't care that the critics didn't really like it. I just wanted to see a movie and let me tell you something, I didn't regret seeing the movie.
It was really good. Now, for those of you who don't know what this movie is about, I will tell you. It tells the story of Milo (voiced by Seth Dusky), a kid who hates doing his chores and being told what to do by his mother (voiced by Joan Cusack). One night, when he doesn't eat his broccoli, he tells his mother that he wished he didn't have a mother. When he feels guilty about what he said and goes to apologize, he witnesses her being abducted by aliens. He runs outside to go and save her, but he gets abducted by aliens, too.
When he reaches the aliens' home (Mars), he meets a human named Gribble (voiced by Dan Fogler). Gribble came to Mars as a kid when he tried to rescue his mom. Milo is told by Gribble that Mars needs moms and that they are stealing them from Earth so they can extract their brains and transfer the mom skills into a robot to take care of Martian babies. When they are through with the moms, they kill them. So, in order to prevent this from happening to his mom, Milo tries to rescue his mom with the help of Gribble and a kind Martian named Ki without being caught by the Supervisor (voiced by Mindy Sterling), an ugly Martian dictator.
``Mars Needs Moms'' is an exciting and sometimes funny animated movie with a good message to kids that mothers are important. Now, if you like the sound of this review and you wish to go see ``Mars Needs Moms'', you better hurry because it only grossed $6.1 million dollars and was number five at the box office when it first came out. So, the movie might not be in theaters for much longer.
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