Fresh
Perhaps they don't create quite enough deeply funny earthlings to go around, but a thoroughly meanspirited big-budget movie is always a treasurable rarity.
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
Mars Attacks!
Nice planet. We'll take it!
1996 · 1h 46m · PG-13
Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Directed by
Tim Burton
Overview
A fleet of Martian spacecraft surrounds the world's major cities and all of humanity waits to see if the extraterrestrial visitors have, as they claim, "come in peace." U.S. President James Dale receives assurance from science professor Donald Kessler that the Martians' mission is a friendly one. But when a peaceful exchange ends in the total annihilation of the U.S. Congress, military men call for a full-scale nuclear retaliation.
Director and cast
- Tim Burton Director
- Jack Nicholson as President James Dale / Art Land
- Glenn Close as First Lady Marsha Dale
- Annette Bening as Barbara Land
- Pierce Brosnan as Professor Donald Kessler
- Danny DeVito as Rude Gambler
- Martin Short as Press Secretary Jerry Ross
- Sarah Jessica Parker Cast
- Michael J. Fox Cast
- Rod Steiger Cast
- Tom Jones Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
55%
Tomatometer
Fresh
oaded with wit, nifty little ideas and an extraordinary sense of design, but its allure is of quite a particular nature, much closer to that of Ed Wood than of Burton's earlier, and far more commercially successful, works.
Todd McCarthy, Variety
Rotten
Unfortunately, it's not very good.
Derek Adams, Time Out
Rotten
Just a parade of scattershot gags, more often weird than funny and most often just flat.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Rotten
Only moderately amusing.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
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