The site's critical consensus read, "The cast is solid and it's visually well-crafted, but Mars Needs Moms suffers from a lack of imagination and heart."
Genre keyword rankings 5. Milo tells her about his search for his Mom and what a human relationship with a mom is like, as Ki and her kin were mentored by only nannybots and supervisors and do not know of love.
Mars Needs Moms will go down as the year's biggest flop (unless something bigger comes along later in the year) and was a major reason for the closure of the studio responsible, ImageMovers Digital. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale. A young boy named Milo gains a deeper appreciation for his mom after Martians come to Earth to take her away. The other Martians celebrate. Mars Needs Moms was too far along in production to scrap and its box office failure ended with a reported $100 million write-down.
© IMDb.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Gribble decides not to stay because he wants to pursue a relationship with Ki on Mars. Domestic ( They discover an ancient mural of a Martian family and realize that Martian children were not always raised by machines.
Milo is rescued by Ki, one of the supervisors who raise Martian babies. BoxOfficeMojo.com by IMDbPro - an 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. Directed by Simon Wells. His mom gives him her own helmet, saving Milo but sacrificing herself. Gribble, who is lonely and does not want Milo to leave, pretends to help Milo rescue his mother. He escapes and is chased by Martian guards, but he follows a voice that tells him to jump down a chute, and lands in a lower subterranean level. With Seth Green, Joan Cusack, Dan Fogler, Elisabeth Harnois. Gribble finds his own mother's helmet and gives it to Milo's mom, saving her. Milo convinces Gribble to actually help him just as Ki finds them. Ki argues that Martians were meant to be raised in families, with love, but the Supervisor insists that the current situation is better because, to her, it is more efficient. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film had an approval rating of 37% based on 115 reviews and an average rating of 5.02/10. Milo and his mom return to their house just before Milo's dad arrives. Assuming that the availability of the Seth Green cut was already known, its existence remained unknown to the wider public until he was prompted by #ReleaseTheSethGreenCut comments he saw online to announce his discovery on May 29, 2020. Gribble blames himself for her being chosen and regrets that he had not been able to save her. Milo and Gribble retreat to an even lower uninhabited level, where Gribble describes his own mom's abduction and murder by the Martians 20 years ago. However, it doesn't necessarily mean the film itself is bad and perhaps it was unfairly overlooked at the box …
A young boy named Milo gains a deeper appreciation for his mom after Martians come to Earth to take her away. Gribble explains to Milo that the Martians plan to extract Milo's mom's memories at sunrise, using a process that will kill her. Action BoxOfficeMojo.com by IMDbPro - an IMDb company. Ki brings a ship for them to escape in, but the Supervisor intervenes.
Gribble explains that Martian female babies are currently raised by nannybots in the technologically advanced society, while the male babies are sent down below to be raised by adult male Martians, which are the furry creatures he encountered earlier. Disney dated Mars Needs Moms for March 11, 2011 and despite knowing the picture was headed for a loss, the studio did support the release with an expensive marketing push and even primed the toon for an IMAX run. However, 2011’s “Mars Needs Moms” wasn’t exactly out of this world. Mars Needs Moms used motion capture technology, the kind of stuff we as audiences really took a shine to with characters like Gollum in The Lord of the Rings, or the Na’vi from the movie Avatar. Milo is captured by the guards, but Ki tosses him a laser gun, allowing him to escape. IMDbPro Animation All rights reserved. Family Robert Zemeckis' motion-capture animated film cost $150 million to produce but earned only $6.9 million in its debut at the domestic box office. Milo, Gribble, and Ki save Milo's mom just before sunrise, causing the energy of the extraction device to short out the electronic locks to the control room.