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Perhaps they don't create quite enough deeply funny earthlings to go around, but a thoroughly meanspirited big-budget movie is always a treasurable rarity.
oaded with wit, nifty little ideas and an extraordinary sense of design, but its allure is of quite a particular nature, much closer to that of Ed Wood than of Burton's earlier, and far more commercially successful, works.
Just a parade of scattershot gags, more often weird than funny and most often just flat.
Hilarity never seemed so tedious.
This may not be a Christmas movie, but it sure captures the elusive spirit of the season, and the simple pleasure is contagious.
Tim Burton's tribute to the B sci-fi-alien genre of the 1950s is sharply uneven, but the top-notch cast, dark humor, and production values offer some pleasure.
Alien-invasion satire for older tweens and up.
Taken in parts, pieced back together minus the mugging and endless stretches of pointless ensemble padding, Mars Attacks! is a delightful outline for a fantastic, first rate sci-fi action comedy.
The pinko commie Independence Day, Burton's film orders an invasion of little green men not to reinvigorate our all-American bloodlust, but to make us look like complete and utter boobs.
Since the movie is obviously designed to be a larky romp through low-culture cheese, it may seem mean-spirited to complain that in the end Burton's spectacle is a bit hollow.
Burton is at his funniest when the Martians are zapping away like brats playing a video game.
It has a silly juvenile appeal in its unrelenting and subversive camp satire of the pop culture scene.
Unfortunately, it's not very good.
This may not be the best or funniest effort by Burton. It is his biggest, and a lot of fun, too.
A most unpleasant surprise to all those who based their expectations on Burton's previous work.
A very disappointing effort by director Tim Burton.
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