Mars Needs Moms EPIC box office flop...Disney Shocked...

[SouthernExplorer]

I'm not at all surprised that this film is a collassal bomb, and like a PP I am thrilled that it is. Overpaid Disney execs including CEO Bob Iger, and Disney accountants need a big lesson. From the previews it just looks like a dumb movie, and I'm wondering why the talented Cusack took this role. Does she really need the work or the money? I don't even want to buy it on blu-ray, or even see it when it comes to HBO for that matter. I think I'd rather watch a boring 1920's silent on TCM than this "talkie".

 

[monkeyknuckler]

I'd like to see a Disney movie without a dead mother in the plot. It took awhile with this one, but in true Disney fashion, the film eventually got around to making someone an orphan.

 

[SoScary'09]

My first reaction at seeing the commercial was '...eew.'
Not suprised that it didn't do well.

 

[Worfiedoodles]

I saw the preview standing in line waiting for ME at MCO, so I was definitely in a "enjoy the magic" kind of mood...and I quickly determined I did not want to see it. That said, I am not surprised at all it didn't do well.

Maria

 

[jlindemer]

We (my family & I) saw Mars Needs Moms on the Disney Magic on March 23. It was a great movie, I laughed, cried, and my boys actually learned something!

 

[Bornteach]

We saw it. I would say my children enjoyed it but I did not. It was too visually overstimulating. There was too much to se and too much to take in. I wished it had been told with Pixar or actual actors. It was a nice story just poorly animated.

 

[Euphscott]

Saw it on the Wonder - so no real cost to me. I thought it was alright. Nothing spectacular mind you - but for family fare it does the trick. It was way better than Megamind which was the last movie we saw in a theater.

 

[Decorated_Dust]

I saw the previews, and my first reaction was "Is this really a Disney movie?" With the new direction John Lassiter is taking which is giving us movies like The Princess and the Frog and Tangled, I cannot see how a movie like this got made.

I'm guessing Disney made this seperate from the animation department to cash in on the Avatar craze. At least I hope that's the case. I'm glad this was a flop. I hope the new Pirates movie follows suit.

 

[Decorated_Dust]

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[jcarwash]

I saw the previews, and my first reaction was "Is this really a Disney movie?" With the new direction John Lassiter is taking which is giving us movies like The Princess and the Frog and Tangled, I cannot see how a movie like this got made.

I'm guessing Disney made this seperate from the animation department to cash in on the Avatar craze. At least I hope that's the case. I'm glad this was a flop. I hope the new Pirates movie follows suit.

It is a Disney-owned movie. The work was done by Robert Zemeckis' studio, ImageMovers Digital, which did motion-capture animation movies such as Polar Express and A Christmas Carol, and that Disney bought and ran as a subsidiary. In 2010, before Mars Needs Moms was released, Zemeckis and Disney shut down the studio.

It is interesting how Disney organizes itself. For example, Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Feature Animation may work together in some capacities, but they really are distinct business units from what I can tell. Same went for Zemeckis' studio.

Finally, I saw Mars Needs Moms on the Disney Magic two weeks ago and I had trouble staying awake.

 

[Decorated_Dust]

It is a Disney-owned movie. The work was done by Robert Zemeckis' studio, ImageMovers Digital, which did motion-capture animation movies such as Polar Express and A Christmas Carol, and that Disney bought and ran as a subsidiary. Before Mars Needs Moms was released in 2010, Zemeckis and Disney shut down the studio.

That makes way more sense. After watching Avatar and seeing how motion capture could look like, the stuff coming out of the Zemeckis studio just seems unnecessarily creepy. I'm glad they closed up shop.