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Movie Overview
Cast
• Jack Nicholson
• Glenn Close
• Annette Bening
Director
• Tim Burton
MPAA Rating
PG-13
Mars Attacks! (1996)

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OFCS Rating: 50% Rotten
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2/5
"Nothing much is funny in Mars Attacks!, whose mildly amusing War of the Worlds story can best be described as... Mars attacks."  Filmcritic.com  Christopher Null

B-
"It has a silly juvenile appeal in its unrelenting and subversive camp satire of the pop culture scene."  Ozus' World Movie Reviews  Dennis Schwartz

3/10
"A most unpleasant surprise to all those who based their expectations on Burton's previous work."  rec.arts.movies.reviews  Dragan Antulov

2/4
"A stillborn affair that could have been -- and should have been -- a whole lot hipper and funnier."  ReelViews  James Berardinelli

3/4
"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."  Sci-Fi Movie Page  James O'Ehley

4/5
"A frantic, funny love letter to an era of entertainment gone by, but also a top-notch example of modern comedy."  Netflix  James Rocchi

3/4
"Mars Attacks! is packed with memorable sights and hilariously ridiculous ideas."  Montreal Film Journal  Kevin N. Laforest

low 0 out of -4..+4
"Each 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."  rec.arts.movies.reviews  Mark R. Leeper

2/4
"Mars Attacks! is not so much a spoof of 'B' science fiction films as it is an homage to them. But those 'B' films were usually bad, and this homage to them suffers for the same reasons."  Movie Habit  Marty Mapes

3.5/4
"A knowing and loving tribute to those cheesy B-movies."  TheMovieReport.com  Michael Dequina

2/5
"Como parodiar algo que já não se levava muito a sério originalmente?"  Cinema em Cena  Pablo Villaca

4/5
"Burton is at his funniest when the Martians are zapping away like brats playing a video game."  eFilmCritic.com  Rob Gonsalves

1/4
"A very disappointing effort by director Tim Burton."  Laramie Movie Scope  Robert Roten

B
"This may not be the best or funniest effort by Burton. It is his biggest, and a lot of fun, too."  Reeling Reviews  Robin Clifford

"A skewed marriage of mainstream pop and Burton's own eccentricity"  rec.arts.movies.reviews  Shane Burridge
OFCS Rating: 50% Rotten
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