Mars Attacks! (1996)

	Joe Baltake - Sacramento Bee
	Rob Blackwelder - SPLICED Online
	Owen Gleiberman - EW
	John Hartl - Seattle Times
	Jeff Vice - Deseret News
	Sean Means - Film.com
	Kenneth Turan - LA Times
	Walter Addiego - SF Examiner
	Susan Stark - Detroit News
	Scott Rosenberg - Salon
	Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
	James Berardinelli - ReelViews
	Desson Howe - Washington Post
	Margaret McGurk - Cincinnati Enquirer
	Roger Moore - Winston-Salem Journal

“A marvelously unstable comedy . . . gleefully mean-spirited”

- Joe Baltake

“A strained comedy neither witty enough to be satire nor slapstick enough to pass for farce”

- Roger Moore

Mars Attacks!

Send-up of '50s sci-fi flicks with goofy Martians invading Earth. Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, Martin Short, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michael J. Fox, Rod Steiger, Tom Jones, Lukas Haas, Natalie Portman, Jim Brown, Lisa Marie, Sylvia Sidney. Director: Tim Burton (1996, PG-13)

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