“Mars Needs Moms,” the latest performance-capture 3D movie from producer Robert Zemeckis and Walt Disney Studios, opens Friday, March 11, on more than 256 IMAX screens, including 211 in the U.S.
The clever and fun film about a young boy (Seth Green) who secretly climbs aboard a spaceship to try to recapture his mother (Joan Cusack) from martians who kidnap her to help discipline their mass-produced children, delivers very impressive 3D, especially on a full large format IMAX screen.
Director Simon Wells, a great grandson of H.G. Wells and a longtime protege of producer Robert Zemeckis, told 3DHollywood.net that the entire film was designed and shot specifically to take full advantage of 3D moreso than most, and to customize the experience for maximum impact in formats like IMAX 3D. That it does, with the depth very apparent in every shot and numerous scenes popping slightly out of the screen for selective impact.
The final brief shots of the movie are set inside the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, a nod to the NASA agency that builds and drives the series of Mars rovers that deliver the 3D images used as reference for this movie. Two of the scientists at JPL spoke to 3DHollywood.net last week in the following 2 1/2-minute video about their work on Mars and with 3D cameras, as well as their interest in movies about Mars and 3D movies in general…
— By Scott Hettrick
sounds good. will take the kids to see this one.