Mars Attacks!

Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: December 13, 1996

6.8	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 203 Ratings

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BobB.May 29, 2006

Tim Burton made this? or was he just making an attempt at a modern Ed Wood film?

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DeanD.Mar 20, 2006

A total waste of time. Jokes were few and far between, and seldom funny at all. Tack those onto a threadbare, incoherent plot, and you have a recipe for disaster.

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DeeFeb 9, 2006

No real plot. The movie was all over the board. The scenes made good actors appear as amaturs.

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ricky1121Oct 8, 2014

Very disappointed in this movie. The destruction scene looks like a cartoon! The martians look like a cartoon! At least Independence Day managed to be very good!

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Steven1981Mar 22, 2020

Mars Attacks is a 1996 comedy sci-fi fantasy and it has some great actors such as Jack Nicholson, Sarah Jessica Parker, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, Michael J. Fox.... It's about these aliens invading earth or some junk and to be honestMars Attacks is a 1996 comedy sci-fi fantasy and it has some great actors such as Jack Nicholson, Sarah Jessica Parker, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, Michael J. Fox.... It's about these aliens invading earth or some junk and to be honest parts are daft.. Sarah Jessica Parker's head on a dog's body and I honestly didn't find this movie entertaining or funny. If there was any good acting throughout the movie it was mainly if not all done by Jack Nicholson and many of the characters are silly and the aliens laughably bad and had no intimidating factors besides their weapons or other forms of defense and were mostly onscreen as a comedy factor but only laughable in a pathetic way. The film feels horrible and seems a cheap rip off of Independence Day which was also embarrasingly bad and the only thing Mars Attacks really attacks is the viewers intelligence with bad acting, horrible directing and sillyness that's not entertaining or if at all only barely.… Expand

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MATMJan 30, 2021

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!”.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.… Expand

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RobMarr75Dec 31, 2022

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.

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