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Regular
Price $9.98
Starring:
Jack Nicholson,
Glenn Close,
Annette Bening,
Pierce Brosnan,
Danny DeVito,
Directed By:
Tim Burton,
Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Release Date: 1996-12-13
Studio: Warner Home Video
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Editorial Reviews and
DVD Information about Mars Attacks!
Amazon.com
It's enlightening to view Tim Burton's Mars Attacks! as his twisted satire of the blockbuster film Independence Day, which was released earlier the same year, although the movies were in production simultaneously. Burton's eye-popping, schlock tribute to 1950s UFO movies actually plays better on video than it did in theaters. The idea of invading aliens ray gunning the big-name movie stars in the cast is a cleverly subversive one, and the bulb-headed, funny-sounding animated Martians are pretty nifty, but it all seemed to be spread thin on the big screen. On video, however, the movie's kooky humor seems a bit more concentrated. The Earth actors (most of whom get zapped or kidnapped for alien science experiments) include Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, Martin Short, Sarah Jessica Parker, Rod Steiger, Michael J. Fox, Lukas Haas, Jim Brown, Tom Jones, and Pam Grier. The digital video disc features an isolated track for Danny Elfman's score, as well as a few other clever and nasty little Martian surprises. --Jim Emerson
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Customer Reviews for Mars Attacks!
Mars Attack
i have seen this movie at least four times before i bought the dvd. it is a great movie. lots of laughs. great all around entertainment. the right actors are correctly chosen for their corresponding parts.Mars Attacks!
"Funny Lookin Little Critters Ain't They?"
Yeah, I get that Tim Burton's star studded MARS ATTACKS! is a spoof of 1950's sci-fi movies but I still don't find this to be a very amusing film. And I know it is all comic book violence/black comedy but there is still way too high of a body count (both Martian and Earthling) for me. Do I personally find it amusing when a trailer dwelling Kansas couple watches their soldier son get vaporized on live television? Er No. Or when a group of Cub Scouts are crushed by the Washington Monument? No again. I even have to say no to the enjoyment value of members of Congress being assassinated with ray guns while the president is killed in a manner reminiscent of the chest bursting scene in ALIEN. Those are just some samples of the Earthling casualties. And when the Martians' heads begin to explode after hearing a certain type of music they leave quite an unpleasant gooey green substance in their wake. Suffice it to say that this one is not for the kiddies. Since this "comedy" lacks clever dialogue or amusing situations I can't recommend it for the adults either.Mars Attacks!
Mars Attacks my funnybone
I ordered the CD for my daughter, we watched it and had a hilarious time, since watching it we've seen it over and over again.Mars Attacks!
Sweet!
This film makes me laugh to no end. It is yet another example of Tim Butron's phenominal and unprecidented imagination. This film clearly exemplifies the respect professionals have for Tim Burton when the likes of Jack Nicholson and Sarah Jessica Parker are willing to be disintegrated and disembodied in order to bring his story to life.Mars Attacks!
Only Tim Burton
I have always loved Tim Burton films. Even as a child, before I ever new a name of any director out there, I did know Burton. Also Unlike any film maker out there, I have seen seven of the fourteen feature films that he has made, when they were in the theatre (including " The Nightmare Before Christmas"). Wondering if his films will captivate me as they did when I was younger, I thought that I will begin to rewatch these films which I have not seen in many years and write reviews as I view them from the perspective of someone older.
Well, starting out of order with "Mars Attacks!", I am not disappointed. This film is as fun as I remembered it, but this time around it was even more fun because I understood those hidden jokes and gags that as a child I never would have known had hidden meanings. In Burton's A-movie wanting to be a B-movie I was also surprised by the ensemble cast. While Nicholson and Brosnan I remembered, I was surprised to see Jack Black, Martin Short, Natalie Portman and even Jim Brown!!
I enjoyed the fact that: (The Slightest of Spoilers)
The aliens are deliriously cold-as-ice evil.
Skeletons zapped by the aliens guns stay fluorescent green or red.
Jack Black is a like a jock.
The woman with the slit in her throat from Beetlejuice, Sylvia Sidney was in it (who incidentally in real life died of throat cancer).
The movie opens to a herd of running cows on fire.
Mars Attacks!
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