1996 · sci-fi · comedy · satire
Mars Attacks!
Directed by Tim Burton1h 46m1996
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.
Our read: Mars Attacks! (1996) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive sci-fi · comedy · satire entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured sci-fi / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- kinetic
- inventive
- funny
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