The former is an inventor and proud employee of the Mission Control Department of planet Baab. The basic premise follows two brothers named Gary Supernova (Rob Corddry) and Scorch Supernova (Brendan Fraser). And the plot, well, multiple paragraphs need to be devoted to that lunacy. The song choices are misguided and occasionally even uncomfortably disconnected from the action. The jokes are mostly obvious, base level gags that will seem too foolish and immature for any child above the age of four that’s ever been described as “advanced” or “accelerated”. The animation is not bad but still below recent standards set by DreamWorks and Pixar. Voices: Brendan Fraser, Rob Corddry, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jessica Alba, William Shatner, Ricky Gervais, Jonathan Morgan Heit, Sofia Vergara, Jane Lynch, Craig Robinson, Steve Zahn, George Lopez, Chris Parnell.The characters are poorly conceived stereotypes that lack depth. Reviewed at AMC Loews Fountains 18, Houston, Feb. Ward editors, Matthew Landon, Scott Winlaw music, Aaron Zigman production designer, Barry Jackson animation director, Adam Wood art director, Matthias Lechner sound (Dolby Digital/Datasat), Dave Patterson associate producer, Rodney Shealey. Screenplay, Bob Barlen, Brunker, from story by Cory Edwards, Tony Leech.Ĭamera (Deluxe color, 3D), Matthew A. Co-executive producers, George Tsvetanski, Ivan Bajic, Phillip Glasser, Jinko Gotoh. Executive producers, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Marvin Peart, Tony Leech, Radenko Milakovic. Produced by Catherine Winder, Luke Carroll, Brian Inerfeld. release and presentation in association with CRF Prods. In this movie, not so much.Ī Weinstein Co. Indeed, one of the funnier moments involves a revival screening of the original “It Came From Outer Space” at a drive-in in that 1953 classic, the 3D visual effects were quite impressive.
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On the plus side, the pic aims some of its humor at grown-up viewers, and scores with sly allusions to ’50s sci-fi thrillers and educational films. Even the robust Fraser is hard-pressed to make Scorch come off as anything more than a Buzz Lightyear clone. Trouble is, it’s difficult for even the standouts to dispel the sense that “Escape From Planet Earth” spends a great deal of time recycling stock characters. Vocal talents - including Jane Lynch and George Lopez as other Area 51 inventor-prisoners, and Ricky Gervais as the voice of the mission-control computer - are well cast across the board. Moms, too, can savor a bit of fantasy fulfillment as Kira (Sarah Jessica Parker) - Kip’s mother, Gary’s wife - plays her own important role in saving the day. But Shanker also is relying on help from a turncoat back on Baab: Lena (Jessica Alba), a mission-control chief who’s fallen for the general after a long-distance online romance.īrunker paces the pic for preteen attention spans, and gives young Kip more than enough derring-do to do so members of the target audience can easily identify with the character. Scorch and Gary are only the latest additions to the brain trust Shanker has assembled in the hope of building a weapon capable of blasting entire planets into space debris. Shanker (William Shatner, clearly enjoying himself) has been inventing high-tech products and procedures – like cell phones, the Internet and computer-generated animation - with the help of extraterrestrials who came to Earth in peace, but were pressed into service as slave labor.
In this case, the super-secret installation is where the megalomaniacal Gen.
Like many previous sci-fi mashups, animated and otherwise, “ Escape From Planet Earth” plays fast and loose with the Area 51 mythos. On Baab, a planet populated by an advanced civilization of Smurfy blue entities, Scorch Supernova (voiced with mucho macho swagger by Brendan Fraser) is widely renowned as an interplanetary adventurer whose heroic exploits are the stuff of legend (and the inspiration for commercial tie-ins).īut when he’s captured during a rescue mission on the dreaded “Dark Planet” (i.e., Earth), it’s up to Gary Supernova (Rob Corddry), Scorch’s brainy-nerd brother employed at mission control, to blast into space, save his sibling and, not incidentally, earn the respect of his Scorch-worshipping young son, Kip (Jonathan Morgan Heit).
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