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Mars Attacks!
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- Comedy
- Sci-fi
- 1996
- Tim Burton
- 101 mins
- 12
Summary
Satirical science-fiction comedy featuring a galaxy of stars. When a huge fleet of spaceships arrives from Mars, the world has hopes that the alien invaders might have come in peace. But such hopes are rapidly dashed, and humanity is soon struggling to survive a relentless attempt at extermination.
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A star rating of 4 out of 5.
Alan Jones
Little green men from the angry red planet launch a flying-saucer attack on Earth in director Tim Burton's slow-starting space oddity, based on a bubble-gum card storyline from the 1960s. In both a tribute to and a spoof of 1950s B-movies, Burton stumbles as many times as he succeeds in playing with the back catalogue of lurid pulp sci-fi references. But once the CGI bug-eyed Martians arrive and strut their evil stuff, this daffy Independence Day lampoon comes alive. Among an amazing roster of stars, Pierce Brosnan is hilarious as an adviser to Jack Nicholson's president and Lisa Marie is weirdly creepy as a disguised alien temptress.
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Cast
rolenamePresident James Dale / Art LandJack NicholsonMarsha DaleGlenn CloseBarbara LandAnnette BeningDonald KesslerPierce BrosnanRude gamblerDanny DeVitoJerry RossMartin ShortNathalie LakeSarah Jessica ParkerJason StoneMichael J FoxGeneral DeckerRod SteigerTom JonesTom Jones (2)Richie NorrisLukas HaasTaffy DaleNatalie PortmanByron WilliamsJim BrownMartian girlLisa MarieGrandma NorrisSylvia SidneyGeneral CaseyPaul WinfieldLouise WilliamsPam GrierGlenn NorrisJoe Don BakerSharonaChristina ApplegateFrench presidentBarbet SchroederDr ZeiglerJerzy Skolimowski
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rolenameDirectorTim Burton
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Released on
1997-02-28
Languages
English | French
Guidance
Violence, swearing.
Available on
video, DVD and Blu-ray
Formats
Colour
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