Mars Attacks! (1996)
Genre: Comedy / Scifi
Duration: 106 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Tim Burton
Stars: Jack Nicholson, Glenn Close and Annette Bening
IMDb score:
6,4 (262.187)
Releasedate: 13 December 1996
Mars Attacks! plot
"Nice planet. We'll take it!"
Peaceful life on Earth is greatly disrupted when flying saucers from Mars arrive. Initially, the Martians appear to be peace-loving, but a meeting organized by the President of the United States shows that they are out to shoot everyone and everything about hope. The president tries with all his might to destroy the supremacy…
Actors and actresses
President Dale / Art Land
Marsha Dale
Barbara Land
Donald Kessler
Rude Gambler
Jerry Ross
Nathalie Lake
Jason Stone
General Decker
Tom Jones
Reviews & comments
Bottleneck
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- 8233 messages
- 2123 votes
Quite a fun movie. Especially the shooting of people where you don't expect it, with those toy guns 
The Martians look wonderfully clumsy and ridiculous. I'm not much into sci-fi movies, but if it's brought that way, yes. Comical and colorful settings and here I like Sarah Jessica Parker much more than in Sex and The City. 
3 - 3.5*
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W.V.
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- 845 messages
- 476 votes
What an ode to the old s/f movies from the 50's and 60's. I was never bored with this movie. The danger with a parody is that the star cast often delivers subpar acting performances, that is now also happening, but the funny thing is that this doesn't really disturb anywhere. Only a few stars act properly, but from Nicholson, Benning and Close, for example, something more can be expected, in my opinion that is compensated by Brosnan, wonderful nerdy professor and by Steiger as the stereotypical general who only wants to use violence. But the show is stolen by the Martians, what a great characters. Beautiful special effects and wonderful dialogues and nice music make me want to see this film more often.
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Lovelyboy
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- 4222 messages
- 3173 votes
Don't run, we are your friends.
Much of this film never sticks and I'm sure I've seen it more times than I can remember. Together with a frugal smile I come to the end of the film, just like the previous times I've seen the film, shaking my head to the conclusion how terribly wrong this Burton product is.
The series of open doors that are kicked in and the jokes about different situations and characters are precious. Of course another set of trailer trash, a warlike general and a herd of hippies who receive the visit idyllically. The media that we naturally sit on top of and so on with everything that can be expected. In that respect, the film is very reminiscent of Independence Day, a film that takes itself way too seriously, something Mars Attacks is certainly not guilty of and perhaps that was the intention. Quite a few well-known names, sometimes only with small roles, have nevertheless agreed to this film by Tim Burton, who is known for a different tone in his films.
Mars Attacks has no bad points in that sense, unless it has to be the sequence of bad jokes and moments that at a certain point tends to overkill. It makes Mars Attacks an absurd experience that has great moments and pulls the film over to a good pass.
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