History Film / MissionToMars

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Poor Woody takes off his helmet, rather than watch his wife make pointless attempts to save him, and possibly doom herself at the same time.]]

* ProductPlacement: Notably for Dr. Pepper and M&Ms. Pennzoil seems to have sponsored the mars buggy they travel in.

* ArtificialGravity: The Mars missions each use a ship with a rotating habitat area for centrifugal gravity generation. The gang had a lot of fun dancing Zero-G style in the central hub! Apparently, the cockpit module also served as a lander and return vehicle, leaving the question of whether or not the cockpit would re-couple with the drive section possibly left in orbit or if the astronauts would spend the return voyage completely in zero gravity.

* DistressCall: Luke sends one

* ScienceMarchesOn: Since the film was released, new pictures taken with modern spacecraft have revealed the true secret of the Face on Mars: it's just a rock.

* OnlyAFleshWound: The micro-meteor storm is heralded in when Phil gets one strait through his hand. This barely slows Phil the rest of the movie, whose hand seems to be in good enough condition to lug the sled across Mars and be trusted to launch and fly back to Earth by himself.

'''''Mission to Mars''''' is a 2000 science fiction movie. It depicts a mission to Mars that gets into trouble and the ensuing rescue mission.

* BiggerOnTheInside: [[spoiler:The Face is pretty big on the outside too.]]

'''''Mission to Mars''''' is a 2000 science fiction movie.

The movie itself is, as you can guess, about a mission to Mars. The astronauts, Jim (Commander, played by Creator/GarySinise), Terri (Connie Nielsen), Woody (Tim Robbins) and Phil (Jerry O'Connell) are sent to find out what happened to the first expedition to Mars which sent a garbled DistressCall. They encounter a lot of challenges, including some in flight turbulence... in space! Where they have to do a perilous EVA repair. Mars itself is a treacherous planet, and the survivors of the previous expedition are not what they expected.

Where it gets interesting are the visuals, which only get more impressive once they realize that there once was intelligence on Mars.

* AndTheAdventureContinues

* DistressCall
* GhostPlanet

* [[spoiler:HeroicSacrifice: Poor Woody takes off his helmet, rather than watch his wife make pointless attempts to save him, and possibly doom herself at the same time.]]

* UsefulNotes/{{Mars}}

* SpaceIsNoisy

* ArtitisticLicensePhysics: Phil's DNA model spins on its own around a center of gravity - impossible considering each individual candy would be going in a circle around nothing.

The movie itself is, as you can guess, about a mission to Mars. The astronauts, Jim (Commander, played by Creator/GarySinise), Terri (Connie Nielsen), Woody (Creator/TimRobbins) and Phil (Jerry O'Connell) are sent to find out what happened to the first expedition to Mars which sent a garbled DistressCall. They encounter a lot of challenges, including some in flight turbulence... in space! Where they have to do a perilous EVA repair. Mars itself is a treacherous planet, and the survivors of the previous expedition are not what they expected.

* [[AvoidTheDreadedGRating Avoid the Dreaded PG Rating]]: Averted; despite a sequence where an astronaut is literally ripped apart by a powerful dust storm vortex, in all its bloody stumpage, the film still somehow got slapped with a family-friendly PG (although the film itself does not share that demographic).

* BittersweetEnding: The crew gets to go home [[spoiler:but one of them goes with the alien.]]
* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. In the initial tangle with the whatever-it-is on Mars, the black dude is the only survivor.

* DuelingMovies: ''[[Film/RedPlanet Red Planet]]'' was released in the same year, with a little better [[ShownTheirWork polish]] in the science of the film.

* ScienceMarchesOn: [[spoiler:The Face on Mars at Cydonia was shown in later, less blurry, photos to actually have almost no resemblence to a human face whatsoever.]]

* {{Precursors}}: The aliens.

* TheRedPlanet

The movie itself is, as you can guess, about a mission to Mars. The astronauts, Jim (Commander, played by Gary Sinise), Terri (Connie Nielsen), Woody (Tim Robbins) and Phil (Jerry O'Connell) are sent to find out what happened to the first expedition to Mars which sent a garbled DistressCall. They encounter a lot of challenges, including some in flight turbulence... in space! Where they have to do a perilous EVA repair. Mars itself is a treacherous planet, and the survivors of the previous expedition are not what they expected.

* SpaceIsCold

* TooDumbToLive: The first crew's reaction to the [[BuffySpeak tornado monster thing]] is to stand there staring in slack-jawed wonder instead of running like any sane human would, despite the fact that it's shredding rock formations less than a hundred feet from them. Sure enough, it ends up killing everyone but Luke, who at least uttered an [[OhCrap "oh my god"]] upon seeing it.