IMDb Rating

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Commonsensemedia Rating

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Kids will learn the importance of doing their chores and not saying mean things to their mothers.

This movie has a strongly positive message: that kids should value and appreciate everything their moms do for them (even if it's chores and discipline) because it's all done out of love. There are also positive take-aways about helping friends in need and the importance of being raised by a family. The motivation behind the Supervisor's tyranny is rooted in female empowerment, but along the way it stripped female Martians of the ability to have families.

Mom is an excellent maternal role model: She's fair, loving, and selfless, and she doesn't think twice about saving Milo at her expense. She loves Milo unconditionally, even when he disappoints her by disobeying her. Gribble eventually helps Milo, even though it means that he'll be alone without a human friend. Ki realizes that her Supervisor's laws are unjust and helps Gribble and Milo save Mom.

Young kids may be upset to hear that Mom will be killed once her parenting skills are extracted to program the Nanny Bots. And at one point, it looks like she has actually died, which could be more disturbing. The Martian ladies, especially the Supervisor, are an imposing, menacing bunch, and the Supervisor always looks and sounds like she's giving mean orders. Gribble is nearly executed by firing squad (the Martians have huge gun-like weapons). There are some foot chases, and the climactic rush to save Mom and return to Earth is tense.

Flirting between Gribble and Ki. Gribble keeps blushing in her presence; at the end, they embrace, and she gives him a peck on the cheek.

Insults like "idiot," "stupid," and "jerk."

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Jerk-1; OMG-1; Butt-1; Idiot-1

In fantasy world aliens shoot lasers at kid and his friends but do not harm them; intense chases; a character is kidnapped; a few characters fall; one mother is disintegrated but it is done in a non-graphic way and is part of one character's memory.

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Kid feeds his broccoli to the cat; Mom remembers her son painting the cat and putting his own foot in the toilet bowl; a character wishes his mom wasn't around but then soon regrets it; a couple of characters are caught without oxygen but everything turns out okay; a cat vomits off screen.