The Complete History of Mars Needs Moms



Two words: Oh no…

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43 thoughts on “The Complete History of Mars Needs Moms”

  1. Can't believe I watched that movie like two times already. The first time was when I was in middle school and the second time was when I was in high school.

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  2. For someone who likes The Polar Express despite its creepy motion, capture, I’m kind of glad I never had a chance to see this film, let alone hear of it at the time. In fact, from what I’ve heard, after this film was gonna come out, Robert Zemeckis, was actually gonna do a remake of the Yellow Submarine movie using motion capture. Thank goodness that never happened.

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  3. The only time Zemeckis’s motion capture worked imo was A Christmas Carol. The uncanny valley, creepy feel serves a story like that. The fact that he did like four of these movies was too much, not to mention the constant use of the same actors in different roles. You’re telling me ROBERT ZEMECKIS couldn’t afford more people instead of having Tom Hanks as three separate characters in Polar Express?

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  4. In all honesty, I’ve always thought that ImageMoversDigital was shut down due to Mars Needs Mom becoming a failure. Upon learning that Disney’s A Christmas Carol, starring Jim Carrey, was the one film that caused IMD to close down, along with Disney’s change in the 2010s, I was quite surprised. Even though the cast and crew had a good time despite Disney’s objections, it is unfortunate that the movie failed at the box office.

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  5. I remember in movie theaters Disney had SO MUCH CONFIDENCE in this movie I saw this gigantic poster of “mars needs moms”

    And I saw the trailers look really bad! (And kind of creepy!)

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  6. By the way, I should tell you guys. If you wonder what Seth Green's performance for Milo SOUNDS like, there's a special edition on Blu Ray with the motion capture footage playing on a pop up, and Seth Green's voice is left intact.

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  7. I guess I'm one of the few, if only, who wasn't scared of Mars Needs Moms, honestly found that whole thing to be kinda silly. That aside, glad to see things went well during the making of it (sorta).

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  8. I had no clue mars needs moms was based on the book. Nice to know production went smoothly. Still not a fan of the film. I can still tell that everyone making at least had good intentions. Great video.

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  9. Its confusing everybody says they find those motion capture movies creepy even though on the video game side of things nobody is creeped out by motion capture despite most modern games using it. I wonder what is the difference in their technology and technique.

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  10. Around this time i was more excited for the first Avengers movie at the time more than anything remember watching this in school second semester of 9th grade thought it was just okay at best meet the Robinson's had a better lesson than this

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  11. I’m glad the cast and crew had fun working on the movie, but it makes me sad that they chose to go the motion capture route with it. Berke Breathed’s art style is so unique and colorful, it would’ve been a treat to see a big budget 2D or 3D animated film in his style. In the end, what we got is an uncanny, ugly picture that just exists.

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  12. IMO I can kinda get Disney's point in shutting down ImageMovers Digital.
    To paraphrase Pan Pizza from his retrospective on the studio:
    "These Mo-Cap movies were such massive investments, yet could barely earn back the budget. They felt like tech demos desperately trying to justify the overblown effort into making them. When the CG was realistic, we(the audience) asked: why not just shoot live actors? When it was cartoony, why not animate it normally? Disney realized they'd save far more money by doing just that, so IMD is no more, but their live-action department lives on"

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