Excellent, smart action film.

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

A young boy called Milo discovers one night by accident that he's mom has been kidnapped by aliens. After "infiltrating" on the ship, he finds himself trapped on Mars where only a weird person (Gerald) can help him save her.It's a fictional story which transmits an important message to everyone about family, love and obedience. It's full of action but unfortunately, most of it is not very credible. Don't get me wrong, I know it's a science-fiction movie but I think it's too exaggerated in terms of what a kid and someone who's partially out of his mind can do to accomplish a rescue mission on a strange and over- engineered planet. Moreover, it lacks passion, emotion, you don't actually feel anything for the characters, you don't get to care about them. And here, in a movie that's not a comedy but it's supposed to carry an important example, I have to say that such things are important.I can't state this is a good movie or recommend it to anyone. Try to take a look at it but don't, by any means, have high hopes regarding it. You will be disappointed!

This movie is that special level of bad. The company that made the 2007 Beowulf, polar express, and that Jim Carrey Christmas Carroll also developed this turd, pretending to be a movie. And it was a fatal mistake. This mars needs moms failed to make any money, and caused image movers digital to fuse back with image movers. It was the worst received Disney-branded movie! Anyway, onto the plot. Good grief. So, on the magnificent red planet, deep below ground. Where secrets don't keep. And anger is restless. Lives this old alien woman with a cane toad face, who is talking to a noseless alien with cat eyes, and... Orange gums. And an, ahem, curvy, attractive figure... Because there needs to be SOMETHING for accompanying adults to enjoy. Anyway, empress Pauline of mars, the even more ugly alien, I mentioned earlier, is too much of a workaholic to raise her own kids, as are all the other martians. So every few years, she absorbs the memories of human mothers into her robots to raise her own babies. Because HUMAN babies have the same needs as MARTIAN babies. Sure, whatever. They spot one mother who is ordering her offspring to take out the rubbish. This offspring's name is Milo. He is a poorly rendered CGI rhesus monkey, I mean, human. Sorry, Milo really does look like he should be climbing the ancient temples of India, screeching and harassing tourists. Anyway, Milo was only helpful at carrying out rubbish so the aliens can think his mother is a strict and able parent to be plot convenient. Once out of the reach of the alien's super telescopes, he reveals his true colours. Milo is a manipulative brat who whines when his dad cancels cinema night, which can be easily rearranged for another night, so it fails at being an overdone 'my parents missed a special even in my childhood' moment. When made to eat broccoli, Milo does something sweet: he kindly donates the nutritious vegetables to his cat, and lies to his mom, claiming to have eaten them himself. which goes as successfully as you'd expect feeding greenery to a mammal of carnivora would go. When the poor kitty cannot keep his meal down, he up chucks it in front of his master's mother, ratting him Milo out. Milo decides to pull off the old 'you have to be more specific' card when told to go to bed, obnoxiously hopping on the bed, rather than laying in it. His mum gets annoyed. When she wishes she didn't have to be so nagging, Milo verbally expresses his resentment of having a mother, in her face. Sure, the mom overreacts, but this is still a horrible thing for a child to say. The aliens very politely abduct his mom, right after Milo stated he wished she wasn't around, deciding they'd be the monkeys paw and grant his wish to teach him to be cautious and stuff. Milo observes the spaceship taking off, hits the metallic multi-ton space vessel with a wooden stick, because his cruelty is rivalled by his idiocy, gets his shirt caught on the side of the ship, and exposure kills him when it takes off. He is somehow shut into a chamber on the ship, via mechanical hoodoo, and gets sent to mars via unexplained wormhole travel. When on mars, he is in a chamber that gets dark. He panics as a voice tells him to go down the trash chute. Under the Underground lies a world of trash, which evokes awe from Milo. The immature male martians are inferior to the females, ergo the females throw them in the trash along with their rubbish. No, I'm not kidding. Among them is gribble, a human self-proclaimed astronaut. He is the only human-looking human in this movie, sure, he looks like an ugly human, but he is nonetheless human in appearance. He has a pet bug robot who doesn't play any major role. He says every few years, martians steal earth moms, use their memories to power robots, every few years to keep up with newer human trends, presumably. After extracting memories, a solar- powered laser BLASTS THE MOMS TO ATOMS!!!! Yes, that's a lovely idea for children to ponder. Milo tries to save his mom, but gribble rigs his plan to fail, and have him fall into the trash world again. But Milo finds gribble has been kidnapped. So he goes up again, rescues gribble, and befriend the nose-less cat woman alien with the hourglass figure and gingivitis. She hooks up with gribble... Okay. They fall into the trash world again... And then into Pandora world from James Cameron's avatar. There, they discover a mural of a martian family raising babies. They decide families are awesome. So they try to save Milo's mom and change the emperor martians mind. It turns out gribble is really named George Ribble at birth and his mom was killed in front of him. and life on the planet had traumatised him. Milo races to save his mom, wakes her up, naked baby aliens attack the adult aliens, evil emperor alien is saved, Milo almost dies because he gives his helmet to his mom, and Gribble's old helmet he left in the desert still is intact. Also, humans only need helmets to survive on mars, not full spacesuits. The Martians learn family values. Gribble hooks up with the cat alien, and lives on mars. And Milo goes home with his family and lives happily stupid after. The end.

My plan was to set the film going then leave the kids to it. In actual fact, to my total surprise I really liked this and on occasions I was shushing the kids so I could hear it! My family (kids AND adults) all love the Toy Story series but aren't such fans of Happy Feet and Up... in other words, we like some animated movies but by no means all.The animation in this film is so good that in a number of scenes I found myself asking if it was animated or real. The true test (to me) is that you get carried away into the film forgetting about animation because it is so slick. Toy Story 1/2/3 did it, this did it.The story is somewhat predictable and shallow, but hey, it's a kids movie, that is exactly what it SHOULD be! My 4 year old and 9 year old could equally enjoy the movie, following the story line and knowing what outcome they wanted.There are plenty of laughs too. I found myself chuckling on multiple occasions... usually where the kids didn't :) It's typical Disney ...Fun, laughter, tears and great animation. It's a pleasing film to watch and the behind the scenes segments were a real insight and quite fun.I would certainly recommend this film for a good Sunday afternoon session on a rainy day!

To quote Mark Twain: "Suppose you watched a terrible movie called Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. And suppose you watched Mars Needs Moms. But, I repeat myself." Okay, okay, Mark Twain didn't say that. But, if he were alive today, he would've rest his case on how equally bad Santa Claus Conquers the Martians and this movie are. How is Mars Needs Moms different from Santa Claus Conquers the Martians? Let's take a look...1) Instead of kidnapping Santa Claus, the Martians kidnapped a young boy's mother for their planet. Stupid plot, isn't it? 2) It has an original song so bad that it makes the Garbage Pail Kids Song sound like Sugar Sugar by the Archies. 3) The acting is equally similar to Mac and Me: Really bad. But unlike Mac and Me, at least this movie doesn't advertise products like McDonald's and Skittles. 4) Nobody has put effort in the animation. Yeah, this movie makes the Magic Voyage, the Felix the cat Movie, and the Legend of Zelda CD-i video games look like the Toy Story Trilogy! Not even Joan Cusack(Best known for voicing Jessie in Toy Story 2 and 3) could save this movie from bombing the box office(I'm not kidding, this movie bombed the box office!). Mars doesn't need Moms. Mars was on Meds and so were the people behind this piece of coyote diarrhea!