Escape from Planet Earth is a 2013 Canadian-American 3D computer animated comedy film produced by Rainmaker Entertainment and distributed by The Weinstein Company, directed by Cal Brunker, and starring the voices of Rob Corddry, Brendan Fraser, Sarah Jessica Parker, William Shatner, Jessica Alba, Craig Robinson, George Lopez, Jane Lynch and Sofía Vergara. On the planet Baab, dashing astronaut Scorch Supernova (Brendan Fraser) is a national hero and master of daring rescues. However, Scorch does not work alone; his nerdy brother, Gary (Rob Corddry), head of mission control at BASA, often lends quiet, behind-the-scenes support. When a distress signal arrives from a dangerous planet, Scorch ignores Gary's warnings and sets out on a rescue mission. Scorch soon finds himself caught in a trap set by an evil enemy, and it's up to Gary to save him.

The storyline is about the conflict between two brothers and their struggle, but it is predictable and very shallow. It lacks of any new ideas and it feels like you have seen this movie already if you have watched some other alien animation movie. The animation (I watched it in 2D) in this movie are colorful and well done and the different alien lifeforms are interesting and funny to look at. So despite the disadvantages of the storyline it is quite an entertaining movie and has some good jokes along the line and I'm sure the shallow storyline won't bother kids as much as it did bother me. The movie feels like a blend between Monsters vs Aliens and Planet 51, so if you like any of those two, you are likely to enjoy this one as well.

I didn't see the trailer for this movie or buy it myself, I got it as a present, and it couldn't have been better! I figure this movie hasn't really been too, too popular because these producer companies are pretty unknown (at least I haven't heard of any of them) and other new movies that have been released recently (The Croods, Monster's University, Despicable Me 2 etc.) have taken the spotlight.I really don't know why the movie is so underrated, the graphics are top class, the plot is original and easy to follow, and every voice is acted out perfectly. It is perfect for kids, but also has some things for adults to get a laugh out of. It has a mix of comedy, and also includes those parts when you think that there's no hope, but then something happens, and the main characters succeed! There's nothing wrong with the movie and if you're kids yawned the whole way through, let them sleep!If you want to, take a look at the 1,2,3,4 star ones, but there's no point in giving yourself a bad impression of this movie. If you just want a nice little family evening on the sofa watching a nice little touch of warm-hearted fiction, you can count on this movie to do a good job. The goodies are good, the baddies are bad, and your day will be perfect.

We saw this on DVD from our public library. As with virtually all animated movies, it is just an extended cartoon just for fun. There are many sight gags and slapstick, plus a few funny lines.The main character has Brendan Fraser voicing Scorch Supernova, who looks and sounds a bit like Buzz Lightyear from the Toy Story movies. But where Buzz was a toy, Scorch is an actual blue alien living on a world many light years away from Earth. He gets the emergency call and heads to Earth for a rescue.It is funny the way these aliens describe Earth, calling it the "dark planet" because aliens who go there never escape, like they get sucked into a black hole. The aliens use old films to show some Earth facts, and in their interpretation it is the only planet where evolution happened in reverse. It started with intelligent dinosaurs and now is inhabited by an inferior species, humans.In a stroke of irony Scorch ends up at the 7-11 store near Area 51, that region famous for alien sightings. It turns out the US government has a secret fortress where various aliens are imprisoned and studied. In fact most of the new technology, cell phones, the internet, etc were results of technology stolen from those captured aliens. So Scorch with the help of his geeky brother has to free everyone and escape Earth.Other great voice actors include Rob Corddry , Ricky Gervais, Jessica Alba, Sofía Vergara, and Sarah Jessica, plus a number of lesser-known talents.