History Film / MissionToMars

* IWantMyJetPack: As of 2020 in real life, man still hasn't stepped foot on Mars nor has NASA made the ''[[Film/TwoThousandAndOneASpaceOdyssey 2001]]''-looking centrifugal gravity stuff a reality.

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UccsxuP8Tk8 This trailer]] could've avoided showing stuff about the reveals inside the Face on Mars.

** The ''Mars II'' spacecraft resembles the ''[[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey Discovery]]'', especially on the inside, and even has a talking computer. The black rectangular door inside the white and brightly lit inside the Face on Mars also harken back to the Monolith and the final part of ''2001'', alongside the rotating wheel space station and the design of the spacesuit helmets.

* DisproportionateRetribution: It might be just a bad case of [[BlueAndOrangeMorality alien thinking]], but [[spoiler:murdering Luke's team over not sending the correct answer with a killer sand tornado instead of simply not doing anything and not letting them pass makes the Martians a bit less 'Benevolent' Precursors.]]
* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler: The protagonists including Luke never bring up the fact that the Martians, alien thinking or not, still caused the deaths of the innocent people of ''Mars I'''s team for sending the wrong answer.]]

* DisproportionateRetribution: It might be just a bad case of alien thinking, but [[spoiler:murdering Luke's team over not sending the correct answer with a killer sand tornado instead of simply not doing anything and not letting them pass makes the Martians a bit less 'Benevolent' Precursors.]]

* AngelicAliens: [[https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--c3e0P8Iv--/c_fill,f_auto,fl_progressive,g_center,h_675,q_80,w_1200/rvxcrdrocif0ixhcofp0.jpg The martian (possibly a hologram)]] revealed at the end of the film, who remained behind to seed Earth with life when her race fled Mars after a meteor collision devastated the planet. She is tall, regal and--unusually for a Space Angel--a strong orange in colour.

* BittersweetEnding: The crew gets to go home [[spoiler: but Jim leaves on the ancient spacecraft to reach the Martians in their new home]]

* AngelicAliens: [[http://webtoy13.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/beautiful-alien-mars.jpg The alien (possibly a hologram)]] revealed at the end of the film, who remained behind to seed Earth with life when her race fled Mars after a meteor collision devastated the planet. She is tall, regal and--unusually for a Space Angel--a strong orange in colour.

* BittersweetEnding: The crew gets to go home [[spoiler: but Jim goes with the alien.]]

* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler: The protagonists including Luke never bring up the fact that the Martians, alien thinking or not, still caused the deaths of the innocent members of Luke's team over sending the wrong answer.]]

* RussianGuySuffersMost: The movie might have been subverted the BlackDudeDiesFirst by having Luke survive the Martian twister, but his poor teammate Sergei Kirov doesn't have such luck.

** The ''Mars II'' spacecraft resembles the ''[[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey Discovery]]'', especially on the inside, and even has a talking computer. The black rectangular door inside the white and brightly lit inside the Face on Mars also harken back to the Monolith and the final part of ''2001'', alongside the rotating wheel space station and design of the spacesuit helmets.
** The whole [[spoiler:Martians being the precursors of humanity]] is similar to the subjects of ''Film/QuatermassAndThePit''.

* DisproportionateRetribution: It might be just a bad case of alien thinking, but [[spoilers:murdering Luke's team over not sending the correct answer with a killer sand tornado instead of simply not doing anything and not letting them pass makes the Martians a bit less "Benevolent" Precursors.]]
* EasilyForgiven: [[spoiler:The protagonists including Luke never bring up the fact that the Martians, alien thinking or not, still caused the deaths of the innocent members of Luke's team over sending the wrong answer.]]

** The ''Mars II'' spacecraft resembles the ''[[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey Discovery]]'', especially on the inside, and even has a talking computer. The black rectangular door inside the white and brightly lit inside the Face on Mars also harken back to the Monolith and the final part of ''2001''.

* ShoutOut: The ''Mars II'' spacecraft resembles the ''[[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey Discovery]]'', especially on the inside, and even has a talking computer.
* SingleTear: [[spoiler: From the female Martian.]]

* HeroicSuicide: [[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.]]

* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: A rating of 3. While the human spacecraft have plausible design, and the physics of the movie are generally OK, things go weird when [[spoiler: we learn that we're of Martian descent and that they'd like to meet one of their long-lost cousins in a pre-prepared spaceship left on Mars, powered by lots of AppliedPhlebotinum.]]

* SanitySlippage: The sole survivor of the Mars disaster, who had his entire crew perish in front of him and spent a whole year trapped on Mars ''[[TheAloner alone.]]'' His reaction to seeing Jim is to scream "YOU CAN'T BE HERE!" and attack him, clearly thinking that he's finally lost his mind.

The astronauts--commander Woody (Creator/TimRobbins), Jim (Creator/GarySinise), Terri (Connie Nielsen), 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.

The astronauts--commander Woody (Tim Robbins), Jim (Creator/GarySinise), Terri (Connie Nielsen), 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.

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

The astronauts, Woody, the commander (Tim Robbins), Jim (Creator/GarySinise), Terri (Connie Nielsen), 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.

Not to be confused with [[Film/RedPlanet yet another fictional mission to Mars, released in the same year]].

* SpaceIsCold: [[spoiler:Woody removes his helmet in vacuum to avoid dying from re-entry. His face is totally frozen before the helmet's even fully off.]]

Not to be confused with [[Film/RedPlanet yet another fictional mission to Mars, released in the same year.]]

[[quoteright:214:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/missiontomars_6351.jpg]]'''''Mission to Mars''''' is a 2000 science fiction movie. It depicts a mission to Mars that gets into trouble and the ensuing rescue mission.

* 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.]]
* HopeSpot: [[spoiler: If the grabbling hook was a few feet longer, Woody would have made it.]]