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Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more
Janet Maslin, New York Times: Just a parade of scattershot gags, more often weird than funny and most often just flat. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Not as much fun as it should be. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: This may not be a Christmas movie, but it sure captures the elusive spirit of the season, and the simple pleasure is contagious. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: As light entertainment, Mars Attacks! gave me more pleasure than most other recent movies I've seen. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: A stillborn affair that could have been -- and should have been -- a whole lot hipper and funnier. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: First he made Ed Wood, a tribute to the man fondly recalled as the worst movie director of all time. Now Tim Burton seems to have made a tribute to Wood's work. Read more
Scott Rosenberg, Salon.com: A throwaway piece of pop ephemera, like a '90s Casino Royale, momentarily arresting and soon forgotten. Read more
Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle: Hilarity never seemed so tedious. Read more
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: Perhaps they don't create quite enough deeply funny earthlings to go around, but a thoroughly meanspirited big-budget movie is always a treasurable rarity. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: Oaded with wit, nifty little ideas and an extraordinary sense of design, but its allure is of quite a particular nature, much closer to that of Ed Wood than of Burton's earlier, and far more commercially successful, works. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Only moderately amusing. Read more
Rita Kempley, Washington Post: Sadly empty exercise. Read more