
It is a normal day for everyone, until President of the United States James Dale (Jack Nicholson) announces Martians have been spotted circling Earth. The Martians land and a meeting is arranged, but not everything goes to plan, and the Martians seem to have other plans for Earth. Are they just misunderstood beings or do they really want to destroy all of humanity?... (Full plot summary below)
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It is a normal day for everyone, until President of the United States James Dale (Jack Nicholson) announces Martians have been spotted circling Earth. The Martians land and a meeting is arranged, but not everything goes to plan, and the Martians seem to have other plans for Earth. Are they just misunderstood beings or do they really want to destroy all of humanity?
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| CinematterMadeleine WilliamsWith Mars Attacks, director Tim Burton has created not only an instant cult hit, but a very offbeat black comedy that parodies martian invasion films, disaster films, and many aspects of our popular culture. |
| Sacramento BeeJoe BaltakeThe 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. |
| TheMovieReport.comMichael DequinaA knowing and loving tribute to those cheesy B-movies. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsMark R. LeeperEach step is away from the imagination that made the cards exciting to adolescents and towards a sort of smirking patronization of the spirit of the source material. |
| Dallas ObserverPeter RainerPart homage and part demolition job, Mars Attacks! is perhaps the funniest piece of giddy schlock heartlessness ever committed to film. |
| Boston PhoenixChris WrightHeavy with irony and criss-cross cultural references, Mars Attacks! betrays the same fondness for schlock that has marked much of Burton's work. |
| LarsenOnFilmJosh Larsen...a sadistically silly spoof that uses a cheesy ray gun to blow away the tropes of science-fiction past. |
| Film ScoutsLeslie RigoulotMars Attacks will keep you laughing from first to last. |
| Sci-Fi Movie PageJames O'EhleyWhile 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. |
| Austin ChronicleAlison MacorA 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. |