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73 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Lemmy, TMDB reviews) · newest Oct 31, 2026 · last updated Oct 31, 2026 · How this works
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Mars Needs Moms is a 2011 adventure animation family film, directed by Simon Wells, starring Seth Green, Seth Robert Dusky and Joan Cusack.
- 67 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Lemmy, TMDB reviews
- posts span Aug 22, 2020 to Oct 31, 2026
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60 of 73 · most liked first1. It pains me to say this, but animated scifi is littered with underperforming films: Treasure Planet, Titan AE, Meet the Robinsons, Mars Needs Moms, Chicken Little, Lightyear, Strange Planet, etc. Even the original Lilo & Stitch was originally only a modest success. www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
neutral · AI labelView post →Add "for Tax Purposes" to a movie: Mars Needs Moms for Tax Purposes
neutral · AI labelView post →While Senator Graham and I disagreed on much, I will always remember his sense of humor, his affable nature, his ability to turn completely inside out, his penchant for being covered in large croaking insects, the way his tongue could hold an ice cream cone, and his favorite film "Mars Needs Moms"
neutral · AI labelView post →There was a movie some time ago called “Mars Needs Moms”. I think a new movie should be made called “Moms Need Cocks”. 😊
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm sure it's a fine movie but the trailers looked generic. Pixar's track record has been shaky lately so I'd rather wait for streaming, especially since this is giving me Mars Needs Moms vibes.
neutral · AI labelView post →I saw Mars Needs Moms in theaters at my own mom's insistence and I remember absolutely none of it but everyone else seems to hate that movie so I guess I did too
negative · AI labelView post →Mars Needs Moms Hey anyone ever remember that Disney film? Yeah me neither
neutral · AI labelView post →skipping the low-hanging fruit of every unnecessary ugly live-action remake of anything animated... Mars Needs Moms. "Kids need one of each parent to grow up feeling loved; Martian women can't raise kids because they work & Martian men are all gay." FUCK that film.
negative · AI labelView post →It's the sixth birthday of this podcast very soon! Let's look at what's been featured on the podcast for previous birthday episodes! For the fifth birthday last year. Animated box-office/critical flops! The history and legacy of Mars Needs Moms, Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas and The Emoji Movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →I once talked to a VFX artist on Twitter who worked on Mars Needs Moms. He told me he got paid more on Mars Needs Moms than any other film he worked on and that the crew were putting up with it so they could work on their next project; Yellow Submarine (and he really wanted to work on it).
neutral · AI labelView post →This is your reminder that the same company that did the motion capture and animation on this movie, ImageMovers, also did Mars Needs Moms
neutral · AI labelView post →(to the tune of Girls On Film) 🎵 Mars Needs Moms🎵
neutral · AI labelView post →Disney+ released a list of essential projects to watch before AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY: Star Wars Holiday Special Evil Dead II Superman IV Spaceballs Super Mario Bros.: The Movie Batman & Robin Catwoman Scary Movie 5 The Cat in the Hat Mars Needs Moms Bohemian Rhapsody Cats Wonder Woman 1984 The Flash
neutral · AI labelView post →I would genuinely rather sit through the entirety of Mars Needs Moms than ever sit through a single minute of a feature-length AI movie 💀
negative · AI labelView post →every day of 2026, I'll post an animated film. 0️⃣2️⃣7️⃣ MARS NEEDS MOMS (2011) dir. Simon Wells A boy sets out to save his mother from Martians. A box-office bomb for Disney that starred Seth Green and Joan Cusack.
neutral · AI labelView post →Last trivia question for the morning: What movie holds the record for the biggest box office loss ever? Waterworld The Flash John Carter Mars Needs Moms #scottstrivia
neutral · AI labelView post →Never ever ever. Retitled JOHN CARTER OF MARS to JOHN CARTER because MARS NEEDS MOMS was a financial failure. The lesson they learned? People don’t want to see movies about Mars, rather than perhaps the movie they made was garbage.
neutral · AI labelView post →14 years ago today, ‘MARS NEEDS MOMS’ released in theaters. The film grossed over $39M at the worldwide box office on a budget of $150M.
neutral · AI labelView post →Here's a brainteaser for you - why is that when motion capture is used in video games it usually looks less uncanny than if its used in films? 🤔 For example, comparing games like Until Dawn and the Yakuza series to films like Mars Needs Moms and that weird Beowulf film? 😅
neutral · AI labelView post →Mars Needs Moms part 1. #fat #chubby nerd with big belly and wide butt. also good movie
positive · AI labelView post →What I heard was that the failure of the kids’ film “Mars Needs Moms“ a few months earlier made the studio nix the use of “Mars” in the title. Absolutely stupid marketing decision.
neutral · AI labelView post →It's like that movie Mars Needs Moms, except on earth
neutral · AI labelView post →Disney thought there were 2 problems with the movie's title. 1) The title of the book it's partly based on (A Princess of Mars) might give people the wrong idea that it's for GIRLS, and 2) the last Mars movie they made (Mars Needs Moms) flopped. There were other problems, not with the title...
neutral · AI labelView post →they saw Mars Needs Moms flop so horrendously, they believed that adding "Mars" to the title would doom the film immediately 😭
neutral · AI labelView post →I know for awhile films with Mars in the title were vetoed because Mars Needs Moms was such a flop (that’s why the John Carter film had its short title). But I don’t think any title would have saved this - for some reason, animation fans hate most space-set movies.
neutral · AI labelView post →When I was little i loved to enter contests on blingee and there was one for "best blingee about a movie" and i made one of Mars Needs Moms and not a single soul voted for it
negative · AI labelView post →Mars Needs Moms is far worse. The whole movie was very boring and the characters were so forgettable. At least Frozen didn’t have such a confusing plot.
negative · AI labelView post →#364: Mars Needs Moms For the budget, this may be the ugliest movie I've seen. Some characters are genuinely repulsive to look at, and everything looks like it was made with one of those hyper realistic Minecraft texture packs. #filmsky 3/10
negative · AI labelView post →One of the best real life examples was the movie Mars Needs Moms. It was made with a technology called motion capture, and it's absolutely bizarre and unnerving to watch. Everything just looks *wrong* in a way that's very difficult to explain.
neutral · AI labelView post →🎉 VERBAL DIORAMA IS FIVE! 🎉 Episode 242 - SINBAD: LEGEND OF THE SEVEN SEAS Episode 243 - THE EMOJI MOVIE Episode 244 - MARS NEEDS MOMS This week, I celebrated 5 years of the podcast all about the history and legacy of movies. Listen in your podcast app of choice📱🎧
neutral · AI labelView post →This I surprisingly don't hate. I think it's important to acknowledge the human factor behind Mars Needs Moms. Despite regretting the uncanny realism, Simon considers Mars the highlight of his career because of how fun and therapeutic making the film was.
positive · AI labelView post →Extreme long shot, but does anyone have the movie Mars Needs Moms (2011) blu-ray? 😅
neutral · AI labelView post →It's actually a decent movie, it was just badly marketed. Something about execs dropping the "Warlord of Mars" bit because the completely unrelated MARS NEEDS MOMS had failed at the box office. We ended up with just JOHN CARTER... and everyone was like "who is that?"
positive · AI labelView post →Amblimation had some really talented animators working for the company yet couldn't save an ugh story. Though maybe not as embarrassing as a movie for co-director Simon Wells compared to Mars Needs Moms.
neutral · AI labelView post →Yeah, that was pretty horrific-looking, too. I was curious until I saw the pitch film. We owe a lot to "Mars Needs Moms."
neutral · AI labelView post →designs here aren't TERRIBLE (aside from Bone and his teeth that are probably one of the scariest things in this movie) the way they move is so herky-jerky and off-putting that between this and Mars Needs Moms, it's no wonder that that fad died quickly. That said...the actual story here is fairly
neutral · AI labelView post →I think that's the ultimate metric whenever I see a kids movie, on a scale of Mars Needs Moms to Whisper of the Heart, how much would this film have altered by brain chemistry if I'd seen it when I was younger?
neutral · AI labelView post →This documentary/movie will have ratings and reviews worse than, Mars Needs Moms which never even recovered the cost it took to make it
neutral · AI labelView post →Really, the only bad Mocap movie I watched was Mars Needs Moms (I don't know if Welcome to Marwen counts). I thought A Christmas Carol and Beowulf were very well-done.
negative · AI labelView post →Cinema To The Letter explores what might be the most Egregious film we've ever covered as we're joined by @adamnotsandler.bsky.social of the @filmsforbreakfast.bsky.social to discuss Mars Needs Moms!
neutral · AI labelView post →gods Mars Needs Moms lol. Disney's worst performing movie on record. I can't remember what it beat out but just whoo whee boy.
negative · AI labelView post →Remember 'Mars Needs Moms'? Apologies for making that movie pop into your heads.
neutral · AI labelView post →The key thing I remember about Mars Needs Moms is watching it once and finding it to be the rare exception of Mocap films that left me uncomfortable. And remember, I loved Polar Expresss, Christmas Carol, Beowulf, and even Monster House (a film that escaped the Uncanny Valley look)
negative · AI labelView post →30) Mars Needs Moms has powerful emotive scenes that make me cry. I think the hatedom on that movie is massively overblown.
positive · AI labelView post →Right! This movie was marketed horribly, all thanks to a soulless CGI movie called Mars Needs Moms. Princess and the Frog aside, Disney was a real shit show in the '00s until they lucked into Frozen.
neutral · AI labelView post →Remember when Mars Needs Moms tanked at the box office and the online discourse was about how boys didn’t want to see a movie with “moms” in the title?
neutral · AI labelView post →Literally Mars Needs Moms bombed so hard at the box office that the studio that made it closed down due to the movie losing over $150 million dollars at the box office.
neutral · AI labelView post →I have a running bit about low stakes alternate universes (e.g. the one where Johnny Depp got killed by an exploding barrel on the first Pirates film and posthumously won an Oscar) and "Mars Needs Moms was delayed so John Carter of Mars was the biggest hit of 2012" is now one of them
neutral · AI labelView post →Like, say, the ban on films having the word "Mars" in the title, after the failure of "Mission to Mars 2" and "Mars Needs Moms," and leading directly to the very bizarre decision to strike "Of Mars" from the title "John Carter," a film that frankly needed it
neutral · AI labelView post →Haven't really posted anything in a while, so here's a piece I did recently. Fan art based on the infamous Disney movie, Mars Needs Moms. Recently watched the movie on Disney+ and while it has its flaws, it does strike a chord with me.
neutral · AI labelView post →🎉 VERBAL DIORAMA IS FIVE! 🎉 Episode 244 - MARS NEEDS MOMS Let's celebrate 5 years of the podcast all about the history and legacy of movies, with a movie that Disney really wanted to make, until they saw a test screening... Listen in your podcast app of choice📱🎧
neutral · AI labelView post →Verbal Diorama is officially "the bomb"... Coming next week: SINBAD: LEGEND OF THE SEVEN SEAS THE EMOJI MOVIE MARS NEEDS MOMS Come celebrate this podcast's 5th birthday with the history and legacy of two of the biggest commercial flops of all time and one stinking critical 💩!
neutral · AI labelView post →Mars Needs Moms It was my first exposure to what a truly awful movie is like
negative · AI labelView post →Add "for Tax Purposes" to a movie: Mars Needs Moms for tax purposes Gone With the Wind for tax purposes The Spy Who Loved Me for tax purposes (2027) The Resurrection of the Christ for tax purposes
neutral · AI labelView post →And Mars. Needs. Moms. …why did this remind me of that terrible movie? lol
neutral · AI labelView post →DISNEYversaries - April 8-9 April 8 Newsies (USA - New York City, 1992) Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama (USA - Disney Channel, 2005) Hannah Montana: The Movie (first worldwide release - Egypt, 2009) Mars Needs Moms (UK, 2011) (1/2) #OTD #Newsies #KimPossible #HannahMontana #MarsNeedsMoms
neutral · AI labelView post →A new podcast episode is ready for your ear holes! open.spotify.com/episode/3zyA... This week, Thomas and Colin watch the 2011 American animated science fiction comedy film, Mars Needs Moms. 🧵
neutral · AI labelView post →Remember Mars Needs Moms? Was that a real movie?
neutral · AI labelView post →Mars Needs Moms (2011) - Stupid fucking movie. 1/5. boxd.it/dn5ZlF
negative · AI labelView post →Mars Needs Moms (Seth Green Cut) Man, what a thoroughly unenjoyable film. Even with the funny Seth Green voice acting that was removed from the original release and neat lore about a Failed Utopia with the Martian Sexes divided in a class war type of way, this truly was the movie of all time
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