Take a Home Alone exposition and put it unceremoniously into the plot of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius and you’ve got Mars Needs Moms. The main difference is that in Mars Needs Moms, there are some deep-seated racial undertones that play out in the movie.
Sometimes when you hear a film name, you hope against hope that the actual film will have a deeper meaning than its title. However, that’s not the case in Mars Needs Moms. What you expect is exactly what you get. The film stars Seth Green (Entourage, Family Guy) as Milo, the boy who wishes he didn’t have a mom. Just like Home Alone, he wakes up to find his mom, voiced by Joan Cusack (Shameless), missing. In Home Alone the mom went on vacation without Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin), while in this animated feature Martians kidnap the mother. Dan Fogler (Take Me Home Tonight...
Sometimes when you hear a film name, you hope against hope that the actual film will have a deeper meaning than its title. However, that’s not the case in Mars Needs Moms. What you expect is exactly what you get. The film stars Seth Green (Entourage, Family Guy) as Milo, the boy who wishes he didn’t have a mom. Just like Home Alone, he wakes up to find his mom, voiced by Joan Cusack (Shameless), missing. In Home Alone the mom went on vacation without Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin), while in this animated feature Martians kidnap the mother. Dan Fogler (Take Me Home Tonight...
- 3/13/2011
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- BuzzFocus.com
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