Mars Attacks (1996)

Director: Tim Burton  Starring: Annette Bening  Jack Nicholson  Glenn Close  
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Publisher: Warner
Format: DVD
UPC: 00883929039999
Buy.com Sku: 208930833
Item#: V2S26W
Buy.com Sales Rank: 25216
Category Keywords: Aliens  All-Star  Black Comedy  Blockbuster  Disaster  Science-Fiction  Spoof  Theatrical Release 
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Editor's Note

Director Tim Burton unleashes MARS ATTACKS!, a vicious, affectionate, brightly-colored homage to 1950s alien invasion movies. When a shiny silver flying saucer lands in the Nevada desert, a group of skull-faced Martians exit the gleaming craft. Although they claim to be peaceful, they promptly "vaporize" a gathering of unfortunate Earthlings, kicking off a bizarre high-tech war with wild special effects. This studiously campy sci-fi spoof, based on a series of Topps bubble-gum cards, gleefully parodies not only schlock B-horror movies, but also overblown blockbusters such as INDEPENDENCE DAY. This subversive film is helped along by an all-star cast including Jack Nicholson in dual roles as both a clueless U.S. President (with First Lady Glenn Close) and a Las Vegas sleazebag. The film follows the wacky WAR OF THE WORLDS-like proceedings from the points of view of numerous colorful characters, from the inane U.S. Press Secretary (Martin Short) to a trailer-park family (Lukas Haas and Sylvia Sidney), to singer Tom Jones (as himself).


Plot Summary

Tim Burton's MARS ATTACKS! is an all-star, high-tech (and subversive) spoof of those science-fiction films of the 1950s, such as THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL and THE WAR OF THE WORLDS.

 
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Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
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Release Information
Studio: Warner
Release Date: 10/28/2008
Original Release Date: 1996
Catalog ID: 1000043221
UPC: 00883929039999
Number of Discs: 1

Audio & Video
Original Language: English
Available Audio Tracks: English
Video: Color

 
Cast & Crew
Danny DeVito
Tom Jones
Annette Bening
Sarah Jessica Parker
Jack Nicholson
Lukas Haas
Joe Don Baker
Glenn Close
Martin Short
Natalie Portman
Pierce Brosnan
Christina Applegate
Michael J. Fox
Lisa Marie
Wynn Thomas - Production Designer
Woody Gelman - Story
Jonathan Gems - Screenwriter
Peter Suschitzky - Director of Photography
Danny Elfman - Composer
Larry J. Franco - Producer
Wally Wood - Story
Chris Lebenzon - Editor
Len Brown - Story
Norm Saunders - Story
Tim Burton - Producer
Bob Powell - Story
Colleen Altwood - Costume Designer
Tim Burton - Director

 
Professional Reviews
Entertainment Weekly
"...[A] giddily satiric epic....Escalates into full Burtonian madness..." -- Rating: B 12/20/1996 pp.58-9

Variety
"...[A] continually inventive, parodistic sendup of alien invasion movies....The technically brilliant picture possesses a quirkily, somewhat facetious insider tone..." 12/02/1996

USA Today
"[A] visually witty, Tim Burton's apparent takeoff on 1956's EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS stars everyone from Jack Nicholson to Tom Jones to Jim Brown." 06/28/2005 p.3D

  
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