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Mars Attacks! Reviews
…now that the novelty of the CGI invaders has long worn off, the gaudy colours and playful satire of Mars Attacks comes up fresh as paint…deliberately testing how seriously, or how unseriously, we’re prepared to take Tim Burtons’ vision…
This one-note, one-joke dud ranks as a major disappointment from director Tim Burton.
Tim Burton’s Mars Attacks! is an unabashed throwback to Atomic Age sci-fi, as well as a comic rejoinder to the same year’s Independence Day.
Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! is a loving homage to cheesy sci-fi B-movies of the '50s that remains a rather entertaining romp even after 30 years thanks to its ability to relish in its ridiculousness.
Mars Attacks! doesn’t feel like it lives in one period or another just because of how they mixed up so many styles.
Too often we are served silliness rather than wit.
You watch this understanding that the ready irony and lampooning of American mores here is exactly what the makers of Independence Day forgot.
It's a novelty, an outlandish succession of scenes, some funny, a few memorable and as the movie drags on, more than a few, tiresome.
Mars Attacks is a candy-colored comic book come to life.
This was a wild movie with enough fun moments to keep me surprisingly entertained throughout.
While there were some moments that I enjoyed, I never quite connected with the overall tone of the film. I'm also not the biggest fan of slapstick, over-the-top comedy. Shout-out to Jack Nicholson for giving us two equally insane performances.
Even with a few decent laughs and unforgettable antagonists, the end result isn’t spectacular; it’s a unique sci-fi genre blend, recalling productions from a bygone era of schlockier monster movies, but it’s only moderately entertaining.
It’s such a wonderful lampoon of the establishment and hammers in Burton’s disdain for those in charge. It’s also got the frenetic spirit of a PG-13 Tex Avery/Chuck Jones/Bob Clampett cartoon.
It's not the funniest, saddest, or most poignant film in Tim Burton's filmography, but it is a great deal of fun. (25th anniversary)
Mars Attacks! may well be the last whiff of that Burton magic so cherished by generations of angsty teens.
Director Tim Burton fashions a hilariously twisted form of the alien invasion movie by skewering every silly sci-fi flick that ever had a budget smaller than its brain.
Mars Attacks! plays its loony action for intentional laughs.
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.