Let’s also not forget the Zemeckis-produced 2011 movie in which Seth Green plays a 9-year-old with eyes as big as tennis balls whose mom gets captured by Martians because he didn’t want to eat his broccoli.
Sure, you could definitely see, uh, small improvements between The Polar Express and Mars Needs Moms, but the lack of bigger facial movements combined with the fact that, you know, video games today look the way they do just make these films look worse with every passing year.
After Mars Needs Moms failed miserably at the box office — and became yet another Zemeckis movie accused of scarring man and child with its uncanny appearances — it was ultimately decided to disband ImageMovers Digital (the Disney facility specially created for Zemeckis to do his performance capture thing), and everyone moved on to greener pastures of Hulks and Gollums.
Which we should all be grateful for since the project following that Mars movie was supposed to be a Yellow Submarine remake. No one needs to have nightmares about actors playing Beatles members singing songs about Lucy’s and Eleanor’s while staring at us with eyes deader than, well, half of The Beatles.