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Critics Consensus: Tim Burton's alien invasion spoof faithfully recreates the wooden characters and schlocky story of cheesy '50s sci-fi and Ed Wood movies -- perhaps a little too faithfully for audiences.
Critic Consensus: Tim Burton's alien invasion spoof faithfully recreates the wooden characters and schlocky story of cheesy '50s sci-fi and Ed Wood movies -- perhaps a little too faithfully for audiences.
All Critics (81) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (43) | Rotten (38) | DVD (3)
Oh, those Martians! They are funny, mean little buggers, and they're worthing checking out.
It's a destructo orgy without any phony-baloney sanctimony about the fellowship of man -- or spaceman.
The cast is so large that most of the actors don't stick around very long, but each has his or her moment to shine.
Both a tribute to schlock sci-fi and a deconstruction of it, this sleekly cheeseball $70 million production is all attitude. It's not Burton's best by a long shot, but I came out smiling.
Mars Attacks! may be the first sci-fi disaster movie that's also an impish black-comedy prank.
Mars Attacks! has its moments. But then, so did Plan 9 from Outer Space.
Mars is a fireball of failure, a B-movie crammed full of A-list actors, an exercise in tacky self-indulgence that will numb you with its labored eccentricities. What's more, it would take a greater detective than I to find a single funny line.
[Mars Attacks!] works well enough, though never well enough to make up for the fact that Burton ultimately settles for less.
A giddily madcap, surreal, sardonic satire that sets out to be deliberately cheesy.
Even Tim Burton's maddest fans will feel disappointment creeping in as the invasion careens along.
Zestfully tacky and broadly comic -- but never quite as funny as it promises to be -- Mars Attacks!' is fanboy-filmmaker Tim Burton's artfully crafted sendup of '50s sci-fi paranoia
The best thing about Mars Attacks! is that you'll come away believing you could have done the movie better.
Yaaa-hooo! Now here's a alien movie for ya, yessiree! Burton's half-tribute, half nudge in the ribs to the old sci-fi of the 1950's not only does well, it surpasses it's subject matter and most of the current day items of the same ilk. Still crazy as well after all these years. Howzit get only a 52% on the damned tomatometer?!? Who are these mongoloids?
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This may be one of Tim Burton's more underrated and lesser films, but this zany homage to cheesy 50s alien invader films is nonetheless very well done, hugely entertaining, and a whole lot of gleefully campy fun. It's actually rather dark and a little gruesome (this is a Burton film overall), but it comes across as kind of shocking since it is supposed to be a tribute film. The spirit of the old stuff remains, just in a revamped and glossy form better fit for the 90s. Still though, there's a lot of good gags, and the overall look and special effects are just awesome. As a bonus, they still hold up pretty nicely, too. The star studded cast is pretty awesome, and they generally do a good job, and it's clear they're having a lot of fun and not taking themselves too seriously, and that's a good thing. Probably the best part of the cast for me, besides the inclusion of two blaxploitation stars, is the inclusion of the voice of Slim Whitman, which is used to great effect in a wonderfully inspired solution to the problem of the invading aliens. All in all, a fun movie I definitely recommend.
A superb cast including Jack Nicholson, Danny Devito and Tom Jones is topped with the unique humour that is created by Tim Burton. While the Martians are cruel, the have some superb scenarios that may unsettle you or have laughing along with it. Think of 'Mars Attacks!' as a tribute to B-Movies of the 1950's and you may enjoy this.
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