SummaryEarth is overrun with mean, green invaders! They're armed with insta-fry ray guns, endowed with slimy, humungous brains, and enlivened with out-of-this-world but state-of-the-art special effects. Thrill! As Earth fights back with an unexpected weapon. Take that, Martians! (Warner Bros.)
SummaryEarth is overrun with mean, green invaders! They're armed with insta-fry ray guns, endowed with slimy, humungous brains, and enlivened with out-of-this-world but state-of-the-art special effects. Thrill! As Earth fights back with an unexpected weapon. Take that, Martians! (Warner Bros.)
A holiday film with no conscience whatsoever, Mars Attacks! will make you laugh, it will make you cry, and it definitely will make you wonder about Earth's ability to defend itself in the face of higher life forms.
This is the best movie ever. I do not care what anyone will ever say. This movie, it's just perfect entertainment. I was fully invested the entire runtime, I was never even aware of the concept of boredom throughout any scene. The actors know what movie their in, and they love it. It will never stop pissing me off how underrated Martin Short **** only real complaint I have is Natalie Portman's character, who is just Lydia Deets again, but I dont care. I loved this so much, it's so funny, so odd, and so pointless. I get that people were mad this followed Burton's more serious trend of movies like Ed Wood and Edward Scissorhands, but I will never care a single time, ever. In conclusion, this movie is great, fight me.
It may seem mean-spirited to complain that in the end Burton's spectacle is a bit hollow. But his genius has always resided in his ability to give depth and a curious, dark richness to the ephemeral fluff of his pop-culture memories -- this is all sparkly surface.
A stillborn affair that could have been -- and should have been -- a whole lot hipper and funnier. If you've seen the two- minute theatrical trailer, you've seen nearly everything that's worthwhile in the feature.
This messy science fiction comedy blows most of its inspired moments because of its mean-spirited, deafening siege mentality, which turns rich promise into a tiresome parade of half-baked skits. Hilarity never seemed so tedious.
It's stingy at heart. Burton, who collaborated with British screenwriter Jonathan Gems, brings nothing of "Edward Scissorhands's" magic or "Beetlejuice's" wacky fun to this sadly empty exercise. Aimlessly plotted and blandly written.
Well, what can I say about this movie? other than that its kinda crazy lol and clearly spoofing 1950s/1960s b-movies. The special effects are somewhat dated but then its meant to appear dated. This movie has it all, from floating transplated heads to alien boxing(!). There are the really greedy characters, the gung ho military officer and the overly optimistic president (played by Jack Nicholson) but at the end of the day, this movie isn't about the story as much as its to be watched for the visuals, the sheer absurdity of whats going on, given that I don't think everything was really explained in the movie but yeah, its not really about that I suppose.
The cast of this movie is quite impressive, from, as previously mentioned, Jack Nicholson to Glenn Close, Annette Benning, Pierce Brosnan, Danny Devito and Michael J Fox and not to mention a rather random yet quirky and kinda amusing cameo appearance from Tom Jones who's rudely interrupted by the aliens during a rendition of his song 'Its Not Unusual' while on stage in Vegas. Like I say the special effects are kind of dated now, though the movie is 15 years old so thats to be expected but the way the aliens appear is quite humorous with their large portruding, colourful brains and their strange language which is more like a repetitive long noise than a language as such... the movie is quite like a comic strip turned to life, its kind of camp in a way, especially with the Tom Jones scenes - the aliens aren't at all scary, at least not to me but the whole thing is so amusing because of its absurdity, it works quite well.
This is a somewhat feelgood movie that doesn't set out to do anything other than entertain and make you laugh and as far as thats concerned, it does it quite well, though, as with most every other movie, it'll depend on your own tastes as to whether you'll really like or enjoy this. As an example, I'd say that another movie (or set of movies) thats a similar parody and that has the same sort of humour is the Austin Powers movies - their also over the top and camp with some ridiculous characters, although their not aliens, well not all of them anyway!.
Personally I enjoyed this movie, it made me laugh - I found it fun watching the well known cast appear in a movie as this being that its based on b-movies of the past, although I would say that its perhaps a bit too silly for some - the ending came rather quick and I felt I missed a bit of the story but it certainly didn't ruin the movie at all. Its a good bit of fun, not to be taken seriously.
When hundreds of Martians land on Earth, U.S. President James Dale arranges a meeting with them. The ambassador of Mars announces that they "come in peace", but when a dove is released as a symbol of said peace, the Ambassador shoots it before he and the other Martians massacre most of the people at the event.
Mars Attacks is an unusual movie. It's full of A-List starts, yet gives many of them very little to actually do, and the structure often makes it feel as though you're watching a series of unconnected sketches rather than the movie. Having said that. this movie does still provide a decent number of laughs and memorable moments, so if you're looking for something a bit different this is still worth checking out.
This movie is mean-spirited and not fun. It's based on some trading cards, and so it has a kind of retro fun factor, but it's just one of those things where Hollywood is going "Isn't this SO cool?" and it's really just not.
You know how sometimes when you revisit a movie after a long time, you discover that you can now appreciate that movie in a way that you just couldn't when you were younger? Well, that was not my experience with Tim Burton's “Mars Attacks!”. I just watched it for the first time since I saw it in theaters 25 years ago. I remember really not caring for the movie then, and I figured maybe I just wasn't sophisticated enough to appreciate its brand of camp, but it turns out that it is even worse than my memory served. Every single role in this film is filled by an A-lister, but no one is given any material to work with. Christina Applegate, who was coming off of 10 years delivering zingers on “Married… with Children”, has zero lines of dialog. Jack Nicholson is doing his best to vamp up 2 roles, but when the writers give him nothing interesting to do, it all falls flat. I laughed zero times during the movie (not even a smirk), and I appreciated none of the story beats. Just so you know where my allegiances lie, I tend to absolutely love half of Tim Burton's films, while I detest the other half. I think you know which category “Mars Attacks!” falls into for me. Whatever you do, do not watch this movie. It is so bad it is bad. Let's collectively forget it ever existed and watch “Ed Wood” instead. “Mars Attacks!” gets an F - Reserved for movies with absolutely NO redeeming value.