Review of Escape from Planet Earth (2013) by Jared D — 20 Feb 2013

I watched Escape from Planet Earth in 3D because of the movie time. Let me say that there is NO need to suffer through wearing those glasses to watch this. You won't get anything out of it... except a lighter wallet.

Escape is an almost decent movie and nothing more. The story was OK, even if it was unoriginal, uninspired and unimaginative. They could have saved $30 million or so and released this to TV or straight to DVD.

The characters weren't nasty or distasteful (or interesting or funny), and they helped the movie along without adding any entertainment value or laughs. It's obvious how the writer was TRYING to be witty and funny, but it didn't come through.

Some of the voices were OK, but only Ricky Gervais was good. A couple of the others, Brendan Fraser, Sofia Vergara and William Shatner were downright horrible. They didn't fit their characters at all and made it distracting.

There is nothing new or unique you can get from watching Escape from Planet Earth. If it's on a movie channel or TV you can record it and let your kids watch it once or twice, but I'd bet they won't like it much either.