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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Take us to your leader - so we can blow him away !,
This review is from: Mars Attacks! [DVD] [1996] (DVD)
It's difficult not to be fond Tim Burton's big-budget 50's sci-fi spoof Mars Attacks (1996).The lead actors were clearly having a real laugh whilst making this, with hilariously cheesy over-acting and some great one-liners. Amid the mayhem, you don't really care what happens to most of these characters anyway, most of whom come to a gory end, but towards the end of the film, you'll want to get in there yourself to sort out the vicious little Martian creeps. The admittedly shaky plot is pretty secondary to the excellent visual effects, and there is an eery 50's-esque score underlying the whole film, which is a good touch. The scheming, skeletal aliens have a genuinely nasty look about them, whilst also coming across as quite comic, and go about their murderous human annihilation / experimentation with a twisted glee. In fact they are the most unsympathetic aliens to have graced our movie-screens since H R Giger's ultra-aggressive 'Alien' back in 1979. The 50's B-Movie cliches are used to full-effect, with body-pulverising ray guns, saucer-shaped spacecraft and large-brained/puny-bodied aliens running riot throughout. You just cannot take Mars Attacks too seriously (as did the producers of Independence Day in the same year), so if you'd like to see half the US Presidential Administration and Chiefs of Staff wiped-out within 90 minutes, this is your movie !
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
They are our friends!,
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This review is from: Mars Attacks [VHS] [1997] (VHS Tape)
I think this Tim Burton film suffered from coming out at the same time as 'Independence Day' - both films concern an alien invasion of Earth, but Mars Attacks is all-out comedy while Independence Day takes itself very seriously. ID4 (!) elevates its US-president character to hero status; Mars Attacks sends its president (Jack Nicholson) up as a figure of fun. Unlike the typical Tim Burton film (see Ed Wood, Batman, Sleepy Hollow, Edward Scissorhands... and so on), there's no obvious male hero in this film. Instead we get a broad central cast, played by some unexpected actors (Tom Jones, Natalie Portman and Pam Grier are among the cast). The film suffers from being a little meandering and unstructured, but the psychotic skull-faced Martians are brilliant, chanting "We are your friends" at the earthlings as they simultaneously mow then down with laser guns!
12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
WICKEDLY WACKY...,
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This review is from: Mars Attacks [VHS] [1997] (VHS Tape)
Tim Burton outdoes himself with this silly, but funny, spoof of 1950s flying saucer/alien invasion movies. It is absolutely zany and quite funny. There is also nothing politically correct about it, as there are no sacred cows. The film is totally irreverent of American culture and icons. Everything and everyone is fair game.Martians have come to Earth, and they do not come in peace. Diabolical and deadly, they are bent on wreaking havoc wherever they go with their death ray guns, which serve to incinerate living beings. These bulbous headed martians with their own brand of deadly humour are hell bent on destroying Earth, while laughing and cackling maniacally. The special effects are meant to to be reminiscent of those found in 1950s UFO flicks and in this it certainly succeeds. The cast is stellar with Jack Nicholson playing dual roles, that of President James Dale and that of entrepreneur Art Land. Glenn Close, Annette Bening, Pierce Brosnan, Danny DeVito, Martin Short, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michael J. Fox, Rod Steiger, Jim Brown, Natalie Portman, Sylvia Sydney, Paul Winfield, Pam Grier, Lisa Marie, Christine Applegate, Lukas Haas, and Tom Jones round out the star studded cast. With tongue in cheek performances, the viewer is bound to get a good laugh out of this film.
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