From Image Movers Digital (A Christmas Carol, Polar Express) comes Mars Needs Moms, and adaptation of Berkeley Breathed‘s book. The film is directed by one of my favorite animators growing up, Simon Wells (An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, We’re Back! A Dinosaur’s Story, Balto, The Prince of Egypt), and feature voice acting by Seth Green, Joan Cusack and Dan Fogler.
We brought you the first trailer, and now Apple has premiered the snappier second one. While I’m not expecting much – and I’m certainly not the demographic – this could be a decent family film, based on Image Movers involvement and a few clever jokes in the trailer. Check it out below.
Synopsis:
Take out the trash, eat your broccoli–who needs moms, anyway? Nine-year-old Milo (Seth Green) finds out just how much he needs his mom (Joan Cusack) when she’s nabbed by Martians who plan to steal her mom-ness for their own young. Produced by the team behind Disney’s A Christmas Carol and The Polar Express,Mars Needs Moms showcases Milo’s quest to save his mom–a wild adventure in Disney Digital 3D(TM) and IMAX(R) 3D that involves stowing away on a spaceship, navigating an elaborate, multi-level planet and taking on the alien nation and their leader (Mindy Sterling). With the help of a tech-savvy, underground earthman named Gribble (Dan Fogler) and a rebel Martian girl called Ki (Elisabeth Harnois), Milo just might find his way back to his mom–in more ways than one.
Mars Needs Moms will hit theaters March 11th, 2011.
What do you think of the trailer?