MARS NEEDS MOMS
A funny, heartfelt defense of family, wrapped in a Martian adventure.
Should You Watch It?
Yes. MARS NEEDS MOMS is a very entertaining, funny, exciting, and deeply touching adventure built around a simple conviction: every child needs both a mother and a father. Its beautifully structured script carries that idea through the story and into a climax that will bring most viewers to tears.
The movie also offers an insightful defense of God’s definition of marriage and family. Its content concerns are limited to mild profanity, comic action violence, rear infant nudity, and other brief moments described in the Content Guide.
If you want a family film with strong traditional values, emotional warmth, and genuine adventure, this is worth seeing. MARS NEEDS MOMS is a strong choice for family viewing.
The Story
NO SPOILERS — WE KEEP THE SURPRISESNine-year-old Milo gets angry with his mother after she gives him one too many orders. When he sees her cry, he decides to apologize—but Martian creatures kidnap her first.
Milo stows away aboard their spacecraft and travels to Mars, where he joins forces with Gribble, a tech-savvy Earthman, and Ki, a rebellious Martian girl. Together, they face a strange all-female Martian society and attempt to rescue Milo’s mother.
Is It Any Good?
Four stars means this is an outstanding family film. MARS NEEDS MOMS is funny, exciting, extremely touching, and profoundly structured without becoming overbearing.
The simple premise is woven throughout the storyline and builds to a brilliant climax. The motion-capture animation gives the performances marvelous spontaneity, although some critics complained about the human faces. The rendition works especially well for Dan Fogler’s funny, goofy, and unique performance as Gribble, which the source review calls the movie’s best.
The Worldview
MARS NEEDS MOMS strongly affirms the importance of mothers and fathers. It focuses on the nurturing role of mothers without neglecting fathers, and it supports God’s definition of marriage and family. The film presents its family convictions through humor, adventure, and emotional storytelling rather than heavy-handed speeches.
The Martian society is a harsh, totalitarian, communist-like feminist matriarchy that treats males as unnecessary and turns women into counterfeit masculine automatons. The movie rejects this society’s coldness and heartlessness, along with radical feminism that discards the male species. Its very strong American values include an anti-communist and anti-statist perspective.
The film’s central vision aligns with the biblical understanding that family is not an accidental arrangement but part of God’s design. “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife” (Genesis 2:24).
The Content Guide
The specifics — spoilers included by nature — so you can judge for your own family.
Content Summary
Very strong moral, even biblical, worldview that extols the idea that every child needs both a mother and a father, supports God’s definition of marriage and family, and contains very strong American values with a very strong anti-communist or anti-statist view that’s also anti-feminist (in the sense of a radical feminism which promotes an anti-biblical, humanist worldview reflecting left-wing ideology that’s Anti-American and Anti-Christian), plus lawless antinomian leniency toward a terrible felon is implied in one shot, but the felon is also forced to do one of the things she would hate the most as penance; one light, somewhat muffled exclamatory profanity (My God) and one reference to “butt,” plus Martian baby urinates on primary villain in one shot; animated action and comic violence includes boy falls and rolls down piled up garbage, armed Martian females shoot at people, fighting, an execution is interrupted, characters swing from precarious ropes, characters fall into water in cavern, Martian females chase characters, one execution is interrupted but another tragic death shown in a flashback is not, and characters almost suffocate; no sex; rear infant child nudity; no alcohol; no smoking; and, kidnapping, totalitarianism and feminist matriarchy but rebuked, plus hippies are idealized in a comical way in a context of rebellion, but the theme is not overbearing or objectionably strong.
Talk About It
Questions for the drive home, the dinner table, or the youth group.
Milo regrets hurting his mother and tries to apologize. Why can an apology be difficult, and what makes it sincere?
Matthew 5:23–24 · James 5:16The film argues that children need both a mother and a father. What gifts can mothers and fathers offer a family, and how can families show gratitude for them?
Ephesians 6:1–3 · Proverbs 23:22The Martian society treats one group of people as unnecessary. What does Scripture say about the value and dignity of every person?
Genesis 1:27 · Galatians 3:28The film presents totalitarian control as cold and heartless. How should Christians respond when power is used to control rather than serve?
Mark 10:42–45 · Micah 6:8The Final Word
MARS NEEDS MOMS is a funny, moving, beautifully structured adventure with a clear defense of marriage, family, and the importance of both mothers and fathers. Its limited content concerns do not outweigh its strong values and entertainment. WORTH THE TRIP for families of all ages.
