Mars Attacks! (DVD, 1998)

Larry J. Franco, Tim Burton

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Mars Attacks!

Annette Bening, Sarah Jessica Parker, Martin Short, Lukas Haas, Tom Jones, Jack Nicholson, Natalie Portman, Michael J. Fox, Joe Don Baker, Glenn Close, Lisa Marie, Christina Applegate, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito

Tim Burton

Arabic\Croatian\Czech\English\Greek\Hungarian\Icelandic\Polish\Turkish

DVD

English

1998

Widescreen, Interactive Menu\Production Notes\Scene Access, With Subtitles

Wide Screen

General, Comedy

102 Mins

12A/12

1

United States of America

Peter Suschitzky

Colleen Atwood

Wynn Thomas

Variety - ...[A] continually inventive, parodistic sendup of alien invasion movies....The technically brilliant picture possesses a quirkily, somewhat facetious insider tone..., Entertainment Weekly - "...[A] giddily satiric epic....Escalates into full Burtonian madness..." -- Rating: B+

Norm Saunders, Bob Powell, Wally Wood, Woody Gelman, Len Brown

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 WORLD--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), singer Tom Jones (as himself).

Mars Attacks!

Danny Elfman

Dolby Surround 5.1

Jonathan Gems

Chris Lebenzon