Mars Needs Moms (2011) on Netflix
PG20111h 28mActionAdventureAnimation
Martians abduct Milo's mom to extract her mom-ness for their nanny-bots. The nine-year-old stows away on their spaceship, and on Mars he meets Gribble, a human living below the surface.
- Netflix3.7/5
- IMDb5.4/1025,677 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes37%
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Plot summary
Below the surface of Mars lives a technological society of Martians, ruled by the Supervisor, who watches Earth and sees Milo's mother making him do his chores. The Martians take her to Mars so her mom-ness can be extracted and implanted in nanny-bots. Milo, punished for feeding the cat broccoli, tells his mother his life would be better without her, then finds her abducted and stows away on the spaceship. On Mars he escapes a prison cell, follows a voice down a chute and lands among furry creatures, who take him to Gribble, a human who says the memories will be extracted at sunrise. Ki, one of the Martians who raise the babies, rescues Milo from the Supervisor's henchmen.
Cast
- Seth Robert Duskyas Milo (voice) (as Seth Dusky)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Mars Needs Moms (2011)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Brie Larson revealed in a 2020 YouTube video that she had auditioned for Ki, the Martian defector in Mars Needs Moms, a part that eventually went to Elisabeth Harnois.
- Seth Green spent six weeks in a sensor-equipped performance-capture suit voicing Milo, but his voice sounded too mature for the boy, so newcomer Seth R. Dusky, aged 12, dubbed over him.
- The filmmakers invented a Martian language by having all the actors spend a day recording different interpretations of a list of words; the producers picked their favorites and put them in a book the cast spoke from.
- Opening in more than 3,000 theaters, Mars Needs Moms scored the 22nd-lowest opening ever for a release that wide and, adjusted for inflation, ranks as the fourth-largest box office failure in film history.
