Rotten
Warmth and humor, Flaming Lips calling cards, are nowhere to be found.
Joan Anderman, Boston Globe
Christmas on Mars
2008 · 1h 22m · Not Rated
Music, Science Fiction
Directed by
Wayne Coyne
,
Bradley Beesley
,
George Salisbury
Overview
The film tells the story of the experiences of Major Syrtis during the first Christmas on a newly-colonized Mars. Coyne has described the film as "Maybe Eraserhead or Dead Man crossed with some kind of fantasy and space aspects, like The Wizard of Oz and maybe A Space Odyssey, and set at Christmas-time. The story that unfolds is intended to hint at childlike magic within a tragic and realistic situation."
Director and cast
- Wayne Coyne Director
- Bradley Beesley Director
- George Salisbury Director
- Steven Drozd as Major Syrtis
- Wayne Coyne as The Martian
- Steve Burns as Major Lowell
- Fred Armisen as Philosophical and Hymn-Singing Astronaut
- Scott Booker as Psychiatrist
- Adam Goldberg as Mars Psychiatrist
- Michael Ivins as Sunglasses-wearing Astronaut
- Michelle Martin-Coyne as Mother
- Jimmy Pike as Faithless Astronaut
- Kliph Scurlock as Astronaut Confronting Cosmic Reality
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
50%
Tomatometer
Fresh
This mostly black-and-white, dreamlike yuletide fable does possess its own dorky DIY charm.
Ronnie Scheib, Variety
Fresh
Many rock bands have a moment when they flirt with cinema, but the best efforts are...endearingly ragged projects, destined for cult status. For the Oklahoma group the Flaming Lips, that movie is Christmas on Mars.
Andy Webster, New York Times
Rotten
It's mainly pregnant with pauses that too frequently suck all the fun/oxygen out of each scene, like some art-film parody.
Aaron Hillis, Village Voice
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