Mars Attacks! is packed with memorable sights and hilariously ridiculous ideas.
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09/10/02
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
Reviews for Mars Attacks!
When the film's energy kicks in, though, so does Burton's flair for black comedy.
06/19/02
Hilarity never seemed so tedious.
06/18/02
A bizarre combination of eye candy, warped humor, social satire and comedic ultraviolence.
06/05/02
Como parodiar algo que já não se levava muito a sério originalmente?
05/31/02
Mars Attacks will keep you laughing from first to last.
04/17/02
This may not be a Christmas movie, but it sure captures the elusive spirit of the season, and the simple pleasure is contagious.
04/12/02
Not as much fun as it should be.
02/14/01
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01/01/00
Top CriticIf movies have pop cult I.Q.s, Mars Attacks scores somewhere beyond 200.
01/01/00
Top CriticA holiday film with no conscience whatsoever, Mars Attacks! will make you laugh, it will make you cry, and it definitely will make you wonder about Earth's ability to defend itself in the face of higher life forms.
01/01/00
Just when you're about to give up hope, suddenly the aliens land, the gags start flying faster and faster, and the movie gets great in a hurry.
01/01/00
This messy masterpiece is the year's funniest comedy and a weird, winking affirmation of the power of the people.
01/01/00
Nothing much is funny in Mars Attacks!, whose mildly amusing War of the Worlds story can best be described as... Mars attacks.
01/01/00
Despite the very slow start, Mars Attacks! delivers the goods.
01/01/00
Unlike Burton's tribute to B-movie director Ed Wood or Mel Brooks' parody Young Frankenstein, this movie's self-awareness doesn't work.
01/01/00
A stillborn affair that could have been -- and should have been -- a whole lot hipper and funnier.
01/01/00
While Mars Attacks! may not have been as good as it could have been, it is definitely one of the better sci-fi flicks to have headed our way in quite a while.
01/01/00
An acquired taste.
01/01/00
The film's penchant for repetition is faithful to its '50s source material and is the very quality that turns Mars Attacks! into such a marvelously unstable comedy.
01/01/00
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