The universal derision that George Lucas endured after he introduced Jar Jar Binks to Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace back in 1999?And then had to suffer again following last month's artless 3D re-release?Well, Disney has now fallen into the same trap with this 132-minute bloated adaptation of The Princess of Mars.In 1914, it would have been an impressively futuristic debut novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950), who created Tarzan.But the executives who hired Oscar-winning filmmaker Andrew Stanton clearly didn't realise how science has covered Burroughs' fantasy elements in so much red dust.Stanton is just about the favourite "son" of Disney/Pixar boss John Lasseter – for whom he'd made the Pixar animations A Bug's Life, Finding Nemo and WALL-E.But as for there being life like this on Mars, well they didn't have a clue judging by the sheer number of Binks-style deadbeats.
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