During this circuit, our planet is an average of 93 million miles away from the sun, a distance that takes light about eight minutes to traverse. Though we can't feel it, Earth zooms through its orbit at an average velocity of 18.5 miles a second. Since our calendar years have only 365 days, we add an extra leap day every four years to account for the difference. Our dance around the sunĮarth orbits the sun once every 365.25 days. Find out the origins of our home planet and some of the key ingredients that help make this blue speck in space a unique global ecosystem. Voices: Brendan Fraser, Rob Corddry, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jessica Alba, William Shatner, Ricky Gervais, Jonathan Morgan Heit, Sofia Vergara, Jane Lynch, Craig Robinson, Steve Zahn, George Lopez, Chris Parnell.Earth is the only planet known to maintain life. Reviewed at AMC Loews Fountains 18, Houston, Feb. Ward editors, Matthew Landon, Scott Winlaw music, Aaron Zigman production designer, Barry Jackson animation director, Adam Wood art director, Matthias Lechner sound (Dolby Digital/Datasat), Dave Patterson associate producer, Rodney Shealey. Screenplay, Bob Barlen, Brunker, from story by Cory Edwards, Tony Leech.Ĭamera (Deluxe color, 3D), Matthew A. Co-executive producers, George Tsvetanski, Ivan Bajic, Phillip Glasser, Jinko Gotoh. Executive producers, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Marvin Peart, Tony Leech, Radenko Milakovic. Produced by Catherine Winder, Luke Carroll, Brian Inerfeld. release and presentation in association with CRF Prods. Moms, too, can savor a bit of fantasy fulfillment as Kira (Sarah Jessica Parker) - Kip’s mother, Gary’s wife - plays her own important role in saving the day.Ī Weinstein Co. But Shanker also is relying on help from a turncoat back on Baab: Lena (Jessica Alba), a mission-control chief who’s fallen for the general after a long-distance online romance.īrunker paces the pic for preteen attention spans, and gives young Kip more than enough derring-do to do so members of the target audience can easily identify with the character. Scorch and Gary are only the latest additions to the brain trust Shanker has assembled in the hope of building a weapon capable of blasting entire planets into space debris. Shanker (William Shatner, clearly enjoying himself) has been inventing high-tech products and procedures – like cell phones, the Internet and computer-generated animation - with the help of extraterrestrials who came to Earth in peace, but were pressed into service as slave labor. In this case, the super-secret installation is where the megalomaniacal Gen. Like many previous sci-fi mashups, animated and otherwise, “ Escape From Planet Earth” plays fast and loose with the Area 51 mythos. On Baab, a planet populated by an advanced civilization of Smurfy blue entities, Scorch Supernova (voiced with mucho macho swagger by Brendan Fraser) is widely renowned as an interplanetary adventurer whose heroic exploits are the stuff of legend (and the inspiration for commercial tie-ins).īut when he’s captured during a rescue mission on the dreaded “Dark Planet” (i.e., Earth), it’s up to Gary Supernova (Rob Corddry), Scorch’s brainy-nerd brother employed at mission control, to blast into space, save his sibling and, not incidentally, earn the respect of his Scorch-worshipping young son, Kip (Jonathan Morgan Heit).
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