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Awake Earthling! It's later than you think. Don't miss this hilarious frenzy as Tim Burton (Batman, Beatlejuice) directs -- and Mars Attacks. SEE! Stars across the galaxy. Jack Nicholson (In a dual Role), Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, and a dozen more! SHRIEK! At mean, green invaders from the angry red planet! Armed brains -- and enlivened with out-of-this-world but state-of-the-art special effects. GASP! As the U.S. legislature is overwhelmed. (Don't fear, we still have 2 out of 3 branches of the government working for us, and that ain't bad!) THRILL! As Earth fights back with an unexpected weapon. Take that, Martians!
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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Release Information
|  | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 12/7/2004 |
| Running Time: 106 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1996 | | Catalog ID: 14480 | | UPC: 00085391448020 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
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| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
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| | Professional Reviews | Entertainment Weekly
"...[A] giddily satiric epic....Escalates into full Burtonian madness..." -- Rating: B 12/20/1996 pp.58-9Variety
"...[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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