Mars Attacks! (1996)
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Reviews Counted:55
Fresh:27
Rotten:28
Average Rating:5.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: 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... [More]
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan
Director: Tim Burton
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Reviews for Mars Attacks!
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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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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3/4 |
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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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Burton's only failure. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Burton is at his funniest when the Martians are zapping away like brats playing a video game. Full Review |
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B- |
It has a silly juvenile appeal in its unrelenting and subversive camp satire of the pop culture scene. Full Review |
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Unfortunately, it's not very good. Full Review |
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This may not be the best or funniest effort by Burton. It is his biggest, and a lot of fun, too. Full Review |
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3/10 |
A most unpleasant surprise to all those who based their expectations on Burton's previous work. Full Review |
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Just a parade of scattershot gags, more often weird than funny and most often just flat. Full Review |
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2/4 |
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1/4 |
A very disappointing effort by director Tim Burton. Full Review |
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4/5 |
A frantic, funny love letter to an era of entertainment gone by, but also a top-notch example of modern comedy. Full Review |
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Only moderately amusing. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
It's got attitude, goodness knows; it has stars by the fistful; and it certainly was made with technical skill. What it doesn't have is enough of a story to fill an hour and 46 minutes. Full Review |
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Mars Attacks! is packed with memorable sights and hilariously ridiculous ideas. Full Review |
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