History YMMV / MarsNeedsMoms

* EnsembleDarkHorse: Milo's mother is this, due to being one of the few character who actually looks appealing.

** [[spoiler:Milo's mom almost gets vaporized to provide memories for the new generation of Nanny-Bots, then Milo gets shot in the foot with a laser and suffers not from excessive blood loss from GETTING SHOT, but will now die because his helmet broke, and then his mom pulls a HeroicSacrifice to save him, dooming her.]]

* UnfortunateImplications: A [[http://www.somethingawful.com/d/current-movie-reviews/battle-los-angeles.php?page=2 Something Awful review points out]] just how strictly this movie adheres to gender roles: the Martian women have assumed positions of power that have left them completely unable to care for Martian children (seemingly without even considering to hold a full-time, influential job and be a loving mother at the same time), the Martian men have become effete layabouts as a result. The movie concludes that Martian children will only truly thrive when raised by a mommy and daddy, and anything other than the traditional nuclear family isn't capable of raising children. Not helped by the fact that Milo only describes his mom as doing domestic things, like vacuuming, doing laundry and taking care of him.

* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: While the MotionCapture itself dips pretty deep into UncannyValley, the overall visuals are far more beautiful.

* UncannyValley: As [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aS5W___Ezk this trailer]] demonstrates, the movie easily surpassed ''WesternAnimation/ThePolarExpress'' in terms of creepiness. It doesn't help that they used an actual kid for the voice but based the motion capture off of Creator/SethGreen, hence the dissonance. And the baby Martians, oh man, ''those baby Martians''.

* Adorkable: Ki tends to be very cute, owing to her generally upbeat and excitable nature and her earnest attempts at using outdated 60's slang to connect with Milo and Gribble.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Milo's EstablishingCharacterMoment of spitefully refusing to do his chores doesn't exactly do much to endear his character to the audience. That the rest of the intro has him continuing to be disobedient towards his obviously overworked mother doesn't help matters. It is obvious that they're supposed to be signs of missing his absent father, but the fact that he takes it out on his mother combined with him not really receiving any relatable character traits, and the fact that he just seems a bit too old to be throwing such tantrums just makes him look like a huge {{jerkass}}.

* NeverLiveItDown: It remains Disney's single largest financial loss to date, with most of the blame being levied towards its notoriously offputting animation.

** Milo himself deserves a mention for being an UnintentionallyUnsympathetic SpoiledBrat who was highly inconsiderate and unreasonable at the beginning of the film.