2011 · adventure · animation · family
Mars Needs Moms
Directed by Simon Wells1h 28m2011
When Martians suddenly abduct his mom, mischievous Milo rushes to the rescue and discovers why all moms are so special.
Our read: Mars Needs Moms (2011) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive adventure · animation · family entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle adventure / animation, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
- epic-stakes
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How Mars Needs Moms feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want a frantic Mars rescue adventure for kids under twelve.”
Skip it tonight — You hate uncanny motion-capture faces or need grown-up stakes tonight.
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