' Kitsch is a kind of Buck Rogers , in ` ` John Carter '' Stanton and his co-writers Mark Andrews and novelist Michael Chabon create a reasonably coherent and absorbing alien anthropology for the Tharks , but the humanoid tribes are generally less interesting , with the partial exception of Lynn Collins ' Helium princess , Dejah Thoris , who is permitted to be self-centered and deceitful as well as feisty and intelligent ( and never once speaks in a high-pitched squeak ) . This is a movie comfortable with its own absurdity . The film 's # ##line is absurd ; the dialogue is needlessly confusing .
' Kitsch is a kind of Buck Rogers , in ` ` John Carter '' This is a movie comfortable with its own absurdity . The film 's # ##line is absurd ; the dialogue is needlessly confusing .