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Mars Needs Moms Trailer: An Argument Against Motion-Capture Animation

The trailer for the latest (and possibly final ) Robert Zemeckis-produced motion-capture opus Mars Needs Moms has arrived and, to it’s credit, the CGI humans here do not look quite as much like horrifying corpses as they did in The Polar Express and A Christmas Carol . The premise is cute, as far as this sort of thing goes, and some of the space landscapes are rendered beautifully…and yet, more than any other trailer recently, Mars Needs Moms makes me yearn for old-school animation.

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Mars Needs Moms Trailer: An Argument Against Motion-Capture Animation