Mars Attacks! is an underrated Tim Burton sci-fi film, and after three decades, audiences are finally warming up to it.

Released on December 13, 1996 and based on the eponymous trading card series, Mars Attacks! delivered exactly what its title advertised, but to little box office fortune and mixed reception. However, ...

If that staccato exclamation conjures up the image of a large-brained alien pointing a ray gun at humanity, then congratulations—you have had the good fortune of seeing Mars Attacks, the 1996 film ...