SUB GENRES IT FITS INTO:
The sub genres of this film is action film , alien invasion
SUMMARY OF PLOT IN THE FILM:
Milo is a 9-year-old boy who has a lot on his mind; he has monster movies to watch, comic books to read and all other kinds of fun stuff to accomplish. He definitely does not have time to do homework or eat his vegetables. He's getting tired of his mom nagging him to do these things, and his mom is tired of nagging. But just as Milo is telling his mom that life would be more fun without her, Martians kidnap her. Milo stows away on their spaceship, determined to launch a rescue.
SETTING:
This film is linked to the science fiction film genre because it is in mars where there are extraterrestrial life forms, there are also futuristic things that we don't have on earth such as spaceships and other technology that we may not have developed yet.
CHARACTERS:
There are martians in the film which show that this is a science fiction film
THEMES:
Alien invasion, futuristic
ImageMovers Digital the director is simon wells
CAST:
- Seth Green as Milo (motion capture)
- Seth Dusky as Milo (voice)
- Joan Cusack as Milo's mother
- Tom Everett Scott as Milo's father
- Elisabeth Harnois as Ki
- Dan Fogler as George "Gribble" Ribble
- Mindy Sterling as The Supervisor
- Kevin Cahoon as Wingnut
- Ryan, Robert and Raymond Ochoa and Gavin Bryson Thompson as Martian Hatchlings
- Liam and Edgar Wells as Robot Martians
- Dee Bradley Baker as Two-Ca
MOVIE RELEASE DATE:
March 11 2011
OWNER OF PRODUCTION COMPANY:
Robert Zemeckis, Jack Rapke Steve, Starkey Steven Boyd
MOVIES IT IS ASSOCIATED WITH:
back to the future part 2 and 3 and the polar express
BOX OFFICE INFORMATION:
Mars Needs Moms was a failure and has the worst box-office reception for a Disney-branded film. It earned only $1,725,000 on its first day, for a weekend total of $6,825,000. This is the 15th worst opening ever for a film playing in 3000+ theaters. Even adjusted for inflation, considering the total net loss of money (not the profit to loss ratio), it was still the fifth largest box office bomb in history.[15][16] In 2014, the LA Times listed the film as one of the most expensive box office flops of all time.[17] On March 14, 2011, Brook Barnes of The New York Times commented that it was rare for a Disney-branded film to do so badly, with the reason for its poor performance being the subject (a mother kidnapped from her child), the style of animation, which fails to cross the uncanny valleythreshold, and negative word of mouth on social networks, along with releasing it on the same week as Battle: Los Angeles which had more hype with the general movie goers. Barnes concluded, "Critics and audiences alike, with audiences voicing their opinions on Twitter, blogs and other social media, complained that the Zemeckis technique can result in character facial expressions that look unnatural. Another common criticism was that Mr. Zemeckis focuses so much on technological wizardry that he neglects storytelling.
CRITICAL RECEPTION:Rotten Tomatoes reported that 37% of critics gave the film a positive review, based on reviews from 111 critics, with an average rating of 5 out of 10. The critical consensus was: "The cast is solid and it's visually well-crafted, but Mars Needs Moms suffers from a lack of imagination and heart. Metacritic assigned an average critical score of 49 out of 100 based on 22 reviews
THE TARGET AUDIENCE:
PG
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EBI: I would like to know more about what you think about the success / failure of the film rather than just what Rotten Tomatoes / Wikipedia thought (see my LR)
LR: Could you explain - having seen the trailer and possibly the whole movie - why it was such a box office FLOP? Try to write about 10 sentences including a description of the target audience and any role this might have had on it not being a success.