Mars Attacks!

Name: Mars Attacks!
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Science Fiction
Released: 1996-12-13
Duration: 106 min

Nice planet. We'll take it!

19961h 46mcritics 6.4/10

Comedy Fantasy Science Fiction

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.

starring Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan

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Read from 89 comments (53 from Reddit, 32 from Metacritic, 4 from TMDB reviews) — 11 of them described how it moves.

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Reddit21 read

“the aliens' design really freaked me out”
Brainwheeze▲ 36about 0–100% inread it ↗
“the lady who's head was attached to a chihuahua”
Brainwheeze▲ 36about 0–100% inread it ↗
“Two of us started laughing during the opening credits and didn't stop until it was over. I've never laughed so much at a movie, not even close. My face hurt so much from that.”
DecD▲ 21about 0–100% inread it ↗
“The biggest laugh my dad got out of this movie was seeing the opening credits and how many stars they assembled for this stupid movie. I think he started laughing when either Tom Jones or Jim Brown's name came up.”
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Metacritic31 read

“After a surreal curtain-raiser involving some stampeding barbecued cows”
MovieMasterEddyabout 0–10% inread it ↗
“Around the halfway point, I found myself asking: How much of the film is left? And I rarely ask myself that question. I do so very infrequently, but at that moment the film began to feel h”
chriss17euabout 50–100% inread it ↗
“The film does have a slow start and it does take a little too long before the fun starts.”
kyle20ellisabout 0–33% inread it ↗
“delivering a narrative rhythm that was far from stagnant; it was a "chewy" and cynical masterpiece of dark comedy.”
famfacatabout 0–100% inread it ↗

TMDB4 read

“**Score: 8/10 — A Gleefully Deranged, One-of-a-Kind Satirical Spectacle** *Mars Attacks!* is the cinematic equivalent of a sugar rush from a radioactive candy bar—bright, chaotic, and utterly unforgettable. It is a film that **goes places only Tim Burton would dare to take a movie**, blending 1950s B-movie kitsch with nuclear-grade satire, all delivered with a straight-faced, ghoulish glee that is uniquely his own. From its all-star cast playing paper-thin archetypes to its gloriously crude, ”
misubisuread it ↗
“**_Tim Burton’s spoof of ’50s sci-fi flicks with an outstanding cast_** Shot in 1996 and released at the end of that year, Burton used the Mars Attacks trading cards from the ’60s as the template for his extraterrestrials. The film plays like the Mad magazine version of “Independence Day,” which beat this to the theaters by 5.5 months the same year. Yet Burton said he didn’t know anything about that movie and it was purely coincidental. Aside from the trading cards, “Mars Attacks!” spoofs ’50”
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“**A film full of black humor, and for that very reason difficult to digest for many people.** Black humor is doomed to be understood by very few, and this film, which is drenched in black humor from beginning to end, paid the price, becoming a minor failure. I believe that, even today, it is one of the less well-appreciated films of director Tim Burton's career, who made films considerably worse than this one. The action takes place in the 90s and portrays a hostile Martian invasion of our”
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