I noticed how Image Movers Digital is better off when they’re intentionally creepy, like with Monster House or Christmas Carol, than unintentionally creepy.

The reason why gibble is so immature is because he basically raised himself alone on mars after his own mom was kidnapped and he failed to save her. He is not really supposed to be likable he is supposed to be a cautionary tale of what could happen to miles or whatever his name is if he didn't have his mother and you probably would have understood that if the movie communicated its themes properly.

Still waiting for its spiritual sequel... *"Uranus Needs Dads."*

This movie made me cry and hug my mum for like, a good ten minutes when I was a small child. Not the movie, just the scene where Gribble tried to save his mum. We turned it off after that point in the movie and pretended it didn’t exist.

When i saw this movie when it was aired on Disney Channel for the first time, the Gribble flashback where he was trying to save his mom but then she died was one of the most terrifying scene i saw as a kid. I feel so bad for Gribble 😢

The fact that Disney just kind of swept Treasure Planet under the rug (which is absolutely why it lost money, btw) is f*cking infuriating .

Wow, I always thought this was a fever dream. But no.....unfortunately

This movie scarred me as a kid for a while, it was terrifying to my little baby brain

"I HATE THIS GREMLIN CHILD!" That! That sums up the main issue with this movie outside of the script and the visuals. Milo is just terrible the entire runtime and even boils being a mom to "housework" later on. Just... Horrible.

I'm not crazy over Gribble as a character but I really liked his backstory of being in the same spot but failing. In an alt universe this movie was about Gribble and good

"Who Sleeps on 3 Pillows Anyways?" Well i sleep on 2 pillows is that normal?

What’s more interesting is WHY this film was made. So the animation studio behind it was hard at work on their ambitious remake of the 1968 animated Beatles film, Yellow Submarine, but movie executives wanted a new movie from the studio NOW. Knowing they needed a lot more time to work on and perfect their new Yellow Submarine film, they turned to Berkeley Breathed’s children’s story, Mars Needs Moms, and just shat out a rushed movie adaptation of it just to pacify the movie execs. However, this was a very poor choice, not only because it does a disservice to the work of Bloom County’s creator and cartoonist, but also because the movie they made based on Berke’s story was so bad, it caused the animation studio to get completely shut down. This, of course, is what led to the cancellation of the Beatles remake they were trying so hard to buy more time for working on in the first place.

I kinda loved this movie what was a kid? For some reason I did not find it's visuals off-putting and did not mind this weird dialogue. Yet I have to mention that it was as well somewhat traumatic on the mom plot side 💀💀💀

For the record, while Milo’s mocap was done by Seth Green, his voice was done by Seth Dusky, who was about 12 at the time. 23:38 I just felt the need to defend this movie was misinformation. 😤

This video gets a like for "I hate this gremlin child!" alone.

Animation aside, Wouldn’t it have been more points to the parenting of the mom if she was a single parent visibly balancing looking after her kid and jobs and tiny home, and the kid turning out great. Then the lashing out could be understandable when he’s getting frustrated at not having what other kids get easily toy-wise or experience-wise. His mom getting taken by the aliens and seeing her memories would then be a humbling and understanding lesson of how good he has it and how hard his mom tries, and show his mom as a person not just as a guardian. Gribble could have been like the dad/old brother character the boy never had, and he’d been trying and failing for 10 years (not 30 odd) to stop other moms getting disintegrated, and in the end could decide to stay on earth with his new family but take occasional trips to space. I know this is a kids movie but the trauma for the characters ought to be shown. The mom screaming was hilariously close.

I don't think I can ever quite forgive Robert Zemeckis for all the mo-cap. He seems to be more interested in whatever the newest gimmick is than actually making a good movie, and even his better movies like BTTF and Roger Rabbit are like that, but they had good stories and good producers behind them.

I hate how this movie kind of looks strangely realistic for all the scenes and stuff, but then the character models are all super off. Its really uncanny and gross.

I have a soft spot for this movie. Watched this movie with my mama on mother's day. She cried when the mom sacrificed herself and said she would do the for me. Sooo.... I can't hate it.

"Who sleeps on 3 pillows anyway" Me who has 6 pillows and 7 oversized plushies as pillows

I remember watching this movie at around 7 years old and hating it, and I thought nothing of it until I found out it was based off a children’s book by Berkeley Breathed, the author of Bloom County which just so happens to be my favorite comic strip. When I saw this video in my notifications, I was reminded of this fact, and wouldn’t you know! The book has a completely different art direction, courtesy of Breathed’s signature style. It’s still a little ugly, but a whimsical sort of ugly that kids will find interesting, rather than the drab and uncomfortable kind of ugly the movie has, which I found out was mostly for mo-cap reasons. As for Breathed’s opinion on the movie? Apparently he did a Q n’ A about it, but I wasn’t able to find it. What I _was_ able to find was a drawing he made of the fun, kooky aliens from the book staring at a billboard with Key’s hollow face on it.

I always see people criticize the faces in this, Polar Express, monster House, etc and... I don't see it? Maybe it's because I grew up on these movies, but I think the animation is actually pretty good.

Say what you want, the film made me cry

The fact this is a disney movie is just shocking

4:06 - "Granny Piss Gremlin..." Now that's an insult I'll need to remember for future use!

"fun" fact about gravity: It doesn't matter if the gravity is lower, what kills you isn't the "falling", it's the "stopping". When you're falling, your body accelerates downwards, and, past a certain velocity, your body won't resist the force the ground will exert to you and break apart, crushed by the parts of your body that haven't stopped (or decelerated) and the immobile ground. Lower gravity is "safer" because you take longer to achieve dangerous velocities, but if the air isn't dense enough to resist your acceleration, then you're certain to hurt yourself if you fall from high enough. With denser atmospheres your terminal velocity (the point where drag is equal to gravitational pull, so you can't accelerate anymore) is lower and so is the force you'll receive when hitting the ground, and vice-versa.

I always loved Mars Needs Moms😞

I still wonder why the martians have such big butts. Now that I'm older it makes less sense given how they are born from the ground.

"Who sleeps on 3 pillows anyways?" Me who sleeps on 4:

I thought this was a fever dream I had… You, good sir, have awoken some long lost memory

Seth greens voice was not pitched up,it was replaced late in The production by a real kid actor.

Yo this looks like a interesting Ps1 game. So where do I plug in my controller?

The only good thing about that movie is the fact that its Polish title is "Matki w mackach Marsa" which sounds really funny and makes for a good tongue twister.

i saw this movie as a kid so i unfortunately have nostalgia

I feel like Zemeckis and Image Movers are better off when they're utilising motion capture to be intentionally enhance the creep and the nightmare fuel factor like Monster House, Beowulf (especially towards monsters like Grendel) or A Christmas Carol (Jacob Marley and Ghost of Yet to Come) rather then unintentionally Uncanny Valley

I still have this on DVD. From what I vaguely recall, the subtitles do have words. Also, Xbox Live is still a thing, it's just mandatory now.

I don't know if i was brain damaged as a kid but i loved this film growing up

Why do the aliens talk normally even though they have no nose? "Shoudnd dey dokk lieg thiz?"

I always thought it was dumb that Mars wasted so many resources stealing ONE MOM. At least Jimmy Neutron’s Yokians took everybody.

"Who sleeps with three pillows anyway?" ...I have six.

Very rare for Disney to have a flop movie

Okay but like- I surprisingly was never creeped out by this movie as a kid, and I actually- enjoyed it? I mean it's not my favorite obviously, but I liked watching it and it made me value my mom more. I understand why it gets a lot of hate, but I just so happen to not have those kinds of issues with it. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I sleep on 4 pillows.

this movie's disastrous box office performance killed Image Movers Digital's other movies that were development like a Nutcracker Movie, Yellow Submarine Remake and a Kaiju Movie by Michael Dougherty called "Calling All Robots".... and a Roger Rabbit Sequel too

13:00 Firing Scrod

This studio made monster house (which is SO good!) but then they made this crap 😭

One of the least surprising things ever was seeing that excluding the "Starring" section (bc they would not have had any say on the big alien asses), there was one (1) woman listed on Wikipedia's little basic info box 💀

at the "chimplike martians" line I had to skip two separate ads one after the other so I heard it three times

The place were the Martians are reminds me of the cloning facility from Star Wars

I do. I sleep on 3 pillows, 4 even. It may not be good for my spine, but it's far comfier than only having 1 or 2.

Went to check the concept art, just to see if something was lost in translation to CGI and nope. The photoshopped chimp mouths and giant human eyes into warped faces. It almost looks like Thumbtanic/Thumb Wars. Even the background elements and ships look like generic scifi fodder.

Worst. Disney film. Ever - comic book guy probably

my memories of this was smash with the guardians of the Galaxy. I legit couldn’t remember which one was which.

This movie in fact gave me nightmares as a kid

I watched a different review of this movie but I completely forgot everything other than how much that "ooooooooeeeiiiiooooo" noise is used.

Wait this is a real movie!? I thought it was something i imagined!

3:16 at this moment I realized they copied Jimmy Neutron. (The movie)

who sleeps on three pillows? me its cozy ok

2:12 Why do they have so many Japanese paintings in the background. Also, if you wanna see this premise but actually good, Watch Jimmy Neutron

Here for the ALIEN BAKERY ...dats it.

SIMS 4 MUSIC AT THE END! I thought my game music wasn't off! Trying to learn about the game as the movie's development progresses?

Is that sims 4 loading screen music I hear at the end?

I thought it was ok when I was a kid

You cannot convince me that the phone ringing sound they used in the first few minutes was not simply borrowed from monster house.

Loved the sims 4 music at the end, lol 😂

I actually liked this movie as a kid, I even had it on dvd. The visuals did make me kind of uncomfortable, but it was great for me, because I just thought about how different it was from other movies. i also really liked the tagging thing, and how the colors popped, that's what I remembered the most about the movie

did anybody else hear the sims music at the end?

That movie got unnecessary hate. It was so cute ☹️ when i first watched it with my mom she didn‘t wanna see it because on how bad the reviews were. But after she watched it she loved the movie and teared up a bit. Yea the animation is a bit creepy but because they used real actors for the movie. The Tintin movie looked creepy as well at some point but no ones talking about that

This movie scared me as a child. I was traumatized

Heh. I remember this movie came on when I was little with my Mum in a hotel whilst we were traveling. It was fairly late at night for my age so naturally I was already quite tired and prone to emotions. Long story short, the character models, grim yet foolish tone and acid trippy dialogue had me inconsolably in fearful tears within the first portion of the movie. Probably by the time piss grandma was revealed? XD This movie really has a tonal issue. Everyone with a brain finds it stupid and boring but based on my experience of being six, it's definitely far too freaky looking for little kids lmao

I see the lemur from dinosaur survived and evolved into a annoying kid

Hmmmm, why do I think of The Ant Bully?.🤔 22:21 Guy hooked up with an Alien. I wonder how?.... never mind... 😅

i thought this movie was a fever dream, forgot it was a real movie

I would not call this a great movie, or good, or even okay, but I will give it a low okay instead for bad, have seen worse. Another thing why do people only want to see likeable protagonist kids in movies, in real life there exist kids that behave as Milo or even worse.

dont you dare slander the good name of Mars Needs Moms

For some reason 5 year old me liked this movie

if those damned dirty xenos are stealing Earth’s Babes, where TF is Duke Nukem?!

I liked the movie. A sad movie but interesting.

“Who sleeps on 3 pillows anyway?” Come on dude I sleep on three pillows.

this fuckin movie was the bain of our existence in sick days... for some reason it was always playing during those days in Disney XD

I remember this movie for some reason... why? i dont know and I wish i didnt remember

Gribble lowkey the best character

“Thank you for making it halfway through this video” Me: “This is the halfway point!??”

Mars needs mom's sounds like an amazing doujin title I would love to read

I snuck out of class in jr high and went to go see this this movie😂. I loved it then. It really was the catalyst for me loving the cinema

Man, I remember enjoying that movie as a child and I'm only two minutes in the video and I'm wondering why I did

Yeah… it doesn’t look so good for them 😬😬😬

Is it better if they made it "Mars Needs Family" instead of just mom? Are they allergic to Father figure or just the idea of having a complete family?

Ngl, this movie isnt bad. Its a solid 4.5/10 for me. Its pretty weird, but more importantly UNCANNY AS FUCK! I literally can not stress enough how terrifying the character designs are. Dialogue is… alright… The music is pretty good but other than that… pretty strange movie……..

I remember a Questionable Content review that was really upset at the heteronormativity of this movie. When you get a 4chan tir site to call you racist and homophobic, you know you've goofed.

I think that Gribble is being misunderstood, he acts the way he does because he was never socialized since he was a kid, so he never learned to not be immature, he acts like a kid because he never learned anything after getting to mars. And yes that makes him kinda stupid, he literally doesn't know anything past like the 5th grade. The reason he is quick to "love" the Martian is because he has the same perseption of love as a teenage boy, his lack if socialization makes that martian the first interaction since the Milo. Gribble doesn't really help Milo in the beginning because he doesn't care, he feels cheated,so why should he help some other kids mom. It's a lack of hope and his grief that makes him not help, but when he has a change of heart realizing that Milo still has a chance, he realizes (mind you he has the mentality of a child) that he can give Milo what he couldn't have, a chance. The males being stupid is because again a lack of socializing, they have been discarded from society being trapped in a trash wasteland. Milo is purposefully unlikable in the beginning to show how his character fully arcs into caring for his mother. The reason his explanation of why his mom is important to the martian is so immature is because the martian needs to be given as simple of an explanation to understand it, because she doesn't understand why the mother is important since she never had one. Alot of stuff her I think was overlooked just because of the animation, which I don't think is that bad, the characters do have depth. The main villain doesn't speak English, so when she says her first line in English, it's broken english, so it makes since.

I remember starting this movie as a kid and being super uncomfortable. I gave up when the kid gave Gribble a purple nurple JFKDLS

I always figured that the Martian’s butts were big to give away they were motherly.

"u sav me" yeah i think there was some brain damage there

Say what you will, and yes this thing is utter crap, but it was the first movie I ever saw in a theater and is weird nostalgia for me. I loved it.

OHHHH I remember this one

Nice video!

The Aliens look too fine.☠️☠️

Talking about strange obscure children alien movies, if you get the chance you should review Battle for Terra. I highly doubt anyone remembers that.

I just saw this movie one time when I was a kid. I remember like it and never watch it again, thanks for remind me that this was real xD