Posted on March 9, 2010 | 
Alice is smashing, 3-D and all, but of course I’ll dig up a moldy oldy: Mars Attacks. Oh, I love the alien invasion, the abductions, the eschewing of hypocritical human peacemaking.
Art Land: If the Martians land, they’re gonna need a place to stay. Just like everybody else.
Martian Translator Device: … for dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.
Evil aliens; ugly little aliens; sensible aliens; bizarre, tall, big-haired gum-chewing aliens; thrillingly, chillingly impolite aliens …
Digging up Burton:
- Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, 1995
- Beetlejuice, 1988
- Batman, 1989
- Edward Scissorhands, 19990
- Batman Returns, 1992
- The Nightmare Before Christmas, 1993
- Ed Wood, 1994
- Mars Attacks, 1996
- James and the Giant Peach, 1996
- Sleepy Hollow, 1999
- Planet of the Apes 2001
- Big Fish, 2003
- Corpse Bride, 2005
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 2005
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, 2007
- Alice in Wonderland, 2010
Seen them all? Other bones buried?
—Erin Orison, DEAD LOVE/the Daily Slice
