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Mars Attacks!

1996

Tim Burton

Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan ...

5.8

98,309

Sci-Fi. Comedy Director Tim Burton unleashes MARS ATTACKS!, a vicious, affectionate, brightly-colored homage to 1950s alien invasion movies. When a shiny silver flying saucer lands in the Nevada desert, a group of skull-faced Martians exit the gleaming craft. Although they claim to be peaceful, they promptly "vaporize" a gathering of unfortunate Earthlings, kicking off a bizarre high-tech war with wild special effects. This studiously campy sci-fi ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"A movie like this should be a lot better, or a lot worse. “Mars Attacks!” plays like one of those '50s movies that are ★not★ remembered as cult classic (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"'Mars Attacks!' is just a parade of scattershot gags, more often weird than funny"	NEU
United States	Rita Kempley The Washington Post	"'Plan 9 From Outer Space' is a better bad B-movie than this sour and pointless parody (...) (...) 'Mars Attack!' lacks a moral, a meaning and, worst of all, a clear-cut protagonist"	NEG
United Kingdom	Mark Salisbury Empire	"A giddily madcap, surreal, sardonic satire that sets out to be deliberately cheesy (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"For connoisseurs, then, there are many pleasures to be had; others may find the film amusing but hardly compelling."	NEU
United Kingdom	Time Out	"Tim Burton's film is the most subversive big-budget Hollywood production in years (...) Unfortunately, it's not very good"	NEU
United States	David Ansen Newsweek	"Both a tribute to schlock sci-fi and a deconstruction of it, this sleekly cheeseball $70 million production is all attitude."	POS

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