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Director
Joe Pearson
Cast
Beau Billingslea,
Jim Byrnes,
Tony Eusoff,
Elizabeth Gracen,
Adrian Paul,
James Arnold Taylor
Genre
Adventure,
Action,
Animation,
Science Fiction
Fifteen years have passed since the Martians’ first failed invasion of Earth. The year is 1914, and at the eve of World War I, Mars launches a sudden and more devastating second attack. A small defense force, A.R.E.S., is Earth’s only hope. The giant A.R.E.S. battle tripod GOLIATH is called up to war, and its young multinational crew must face their fears in their struggle to save Humanity from the alien invaders.
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The Dissolve by Chris Klimek
Director Joe Pearson (who also has a mysterious “created by” credit) and screenwriter David Abramowitz have ginned up a fan-fiction-y premise that suggests much more apocalyptic fun than it ultimately delivers.
Village Voice by Michael Nordine
Like a feature-length Saturday morning cartoon with dashes of violence so graphic you'd swear you'd just stepped into Ralph Bakshi's Wizards. Which isn't to say that Goliath is good so much as compellingly weird on occasion.
Variety by Dennis Harvey
Rote character writing, voicing and animation devalue the more impressive design elements of Joe Pearson’s long-aborning project.
The New York Times by Neil Genzlinger
Considering that the fate of humankind is at stake, War of the Worlds: Goliath is remarkably uninvolving.
RogerEbert.com
The main takeaway from War of the Worlds Goliath is that such a yearning still burns in some folks. If its articulation here were more compelling, it might have struck me as stirring rather than merely odd.
The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
The proceedings quickly degenerate into deafening video game-style fiery mayhem featuring endless explosions and depictions of human combatants melted into anguished looking skeletons.
Los Angeles Times by Martin Tsai
War of the Worlds: Goliath is just a few cereal commercials shy of a pointlessly cartoon marathon — violent, messily drawn and lifelessly dragging.
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