Ep. 420: The Flop Era -- "Moms Needs Moms" (2011)

Dirty Sons of Pitches

The "Dirty Sons of Pitches" are nearing their limit with The Flop Era, where they look at some of the biggest fiascos and failures of Hollywood's modern history, but it's taking its toll, and 2011's "Mars Needs Moms" might just be the most expensive awful-looking movie of all time, one of those ate aughts mo-cap animated films that were canned after the tremendous financial failure of this martian parable about respecting your mother.

Episode 420 includes:

-Disney is trying to use their free-trail subscriptions to get out of all sorts of legal liability. Exploitation!

-Trailer responses for "Sonic 3" and the next film from the team that gave us "Psycho Goreman."

-Ben and Nate wrestle with the charms and miscues of the Paul Feig comedy, "Jackpot!"

-Ben thinks "Cucko"'s ultimate revealtion is a bit of a ... "so what?" that drains the rest of the film.

-The Flop Era -- "Mars Needs Moms" (2011)

-A kid blasts off to Mars to save his mom because, apparently, all those little Martians are harvested from the ground and need maternal figures to care for them. It's a bad bad movie, and it's made even worse by how terrible it looks on the eyes with its uncanny valley of horror.