This cartoon starts out pretty lame and toddler-like (I'm talking BARNEY and TELETUBBIES) and then gets better. Though it treads ground plowed over many times recently (MARS NEEDS MOMS, PLANET 51, SPACE CHIMPS, and that one about flies in space, to name four), and the blue aliens from Planet Baab (pronounced "Bob") look a lot like THE SMURFS, the plot and language level smarten up a little after 20 minutes or so. Then the viewer may forget a little bit about how much this is ripping off not only other recent animated features such as the ones named above, but also the general concept of MONSTERS, INC. and the live action series MEN IN BLACK, not to mention ESCAPE FROM WITCH MOUNTAIN and PAUL. But what the hey, at least they play the two main songs from the soundtrack all the way through during the closing credits (after using just the first two or three bars of the tunes during the movie itself). So if your child is maybe 5 years old to 8, they MIGHT enjoy this. WARNING: there is a live action montage of U.S. Civil War and WWII battles early on, with the character Gary's voice-over stating that in Earth Wars, the winners decline and the losers prosper (which is NOT news to us in Texas, where all your Union blue state tax dollars support our military bases and all the nukes you bought are stored in the Confederacy--good luck in winning the next Civil War, while all your auto company jobs have been transferred to the "Remember Pearl Harbor" Japanese factories in the Rebel states, ha-ha!).
Review of Escape from Planet Earth
