For the SF Challenged

[lsanderson]

Mars Needs Moms (2011)

It seems that it’s time to admit that dressing actors in LED-studded catsuits, asking them to give performances on sterile white sets and handing the results to a team of computer animators is not a way to make a good movie. It didn’t work for “The Polar Express,” “Beowulf” or “A Christmas Carol,” and it doesn’t work for “Mars Needs Moms,” the latest product of Robert Zemeckis’s obsession with motion-capture animation.

City of Angels Resists Becoming City of Aliens (the Outer-Space Type)

Considered as an alien-invasion science-fiction allegory, it’s about as deep as the dimple on Mr. Eckhart’s chin, and as lean and square as his jaw. Which is fine.