'We come in peace' is not what those green men from Mars mean when they invade our planet, armed with irresistible weapons and a cruel sense of humor. This star studded cast must play victim to the alien’s fun and games in this comedy homage to science fiction films of the '50s and '60s.
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.
– Richard Schickel,
TIME Magazine,
25 Aug 2008
fresh:
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.
– Todd McCarthy,
Variety,
25 Aug 2008
rotten:
Unfortunately, it's not very good.
– Derek Adams,
Time Out,
9 Feb 2006
rotten:
Just a parade of scattershot gags, more often weird than funny and most often just flat.