Film Review – Escape from Planet Earth

As low impact CG-animated moviemaking goes, “Escape from Planet Earth”
is surprisingly persistent when it comes to staging mind-numbing
mediocrity. The potential for a rip-roaring alien adventure is there for
the taking, but the production doesn’t bother, instead recycling beats
of irreverence, action, and sentiment from other, better pictures. It’s a
drag, but a needlessly stupid one, begging on bleeding knees for
younger audiences to fall in love with it, which translates to emphatic
voice work, extended slapstick routines, and a precocious child
character meant to act as a surrogate for the nosepickers. And just to
make sure the feature radiates complete nonsense, every time a character
falls in “Escape from Planet Earth,” there’s a fart sound effect piped
in. Surely your children would rather watch “Argo” instead, right? Read the rest at Blu-ray.com